496 LX. SAMYDACEEH (MASTERS). [ Bivinia. 
divisions; stigmas obtuse. Capsule ovoid, coriaceous, loculicidally 4-6- 
valved, valves bearing the seeds in their centre. Seeds ovate-oblong, 
covered with long white cottony hair; tegmen subcrustaceous, albu- 
men fleshy; cotyledons ovate, acute. Radicle terete—A shrub with 
alternate, distichous, stipulate, stalked, entire leaves. Flowers small, in 
long, slender axillary racemes. Bracts linear. 
1. B. Jauberti, Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 4, viii, (1857), 78. 
A shrub with cylindrical glabrous branches, dotted with white spots, 
the younger shoots covered with ashy or brownish down. Leaves dis- 
tichous, alternate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, tapering at the 
base, 3-4 in. long, 14 in. broad, obscurely crenate-dentate, teeth 
minutely glandular, slightly pilose, especially along the nerves. Petiole 
less than an inch long, pilose. Flowers numerous, densely crowded 
on solitary, axillary, erect racemes, 2-6 in. long. Bracts linear. 
Pedicels articulate pilose. Calyx subglobose or campanulate, pilose. 
Anthers subglobose. Ovary globose, covered with greyish down. 
Styles 4-6 terete. Capsule oblong-globose, obscurely 3-lobed, covered 
with greyish down; valves terminated by two awns from the splitting 
of the styles. Embryo straight axile; cotyledons 2, small, ovate, flat, 
appressed. 
Mozamb. Distr. Rovumariver, Dr. Kirk! 
The species also occurs in Madagascar. 
4. DISSOMERIA, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 800. 
Flowers dichlamydeous hermaphrodite. Flower-tube short. Sepals 
4, imbricate, ovate, acute. Petals 8, in two rows, persistent, twice the 
length of the sepals, alternating with as many glands. Stamens 20-30, 
emerging from the base of the flower-tube, arranged in bundles opp 
site to the petals; filaments thread-like pilose; anthers subglobose. 
Ovary hirsute, free or nearly so, oblong, 1-celled; style short, dividing 
into three long, pilose, filiform branches ; ovules few, attached near the 
top of the ovary to 3 or 4 parietal placentas. Fruit coriaceous ide- 
hiscent.—A shrub with alternate, stalked glandular-crenate leaves. 
Stipules falciform deciduous. Flowers in long axillary spikes. 
1. D. crenata, Benth. Fl. Nigrit. 362. A shrub with warted branches; 
young shoots puberulous. Leaves alternate on short stalks, subcoria- 
ceous, ovate, irregularly crenate undulate or repand, crenatures often 
minutely glandular, acute or obtuse at the base, feather-veined, reticu- 
late, with tufts of hair on the lower face in the axils of the veins. 5@- 
ules caducous, linear, foliaceous, 2 lines lone. Flower-spikes 3-5 in. 
bie in the axils of the upper leaves. Flowers interrupted, sessile, 
lower ones scattered, upper ones approximate ; each subglobose, 5 lines 
in diameter. Bracts 3, brown, membranous, one central, two lateral 
smaller. Sepals 3 lines long, ovate, obtuse, connate at the base into 
shallow tube, subcoriaceous, puberulous. Petals similar to the sepals, 
