Byrsanthus.] LX. SAMYDACEH (MASTERS). 499 
connivent or spreading, inflexed at the margins. Stamens 15, spring- 
ing from the top of the flower-tube, intermingled with glands, and in 
two rows, the outer series so arranged that two stamens are placed one 
on each side of each petal, with a gland between them (i.e. opposite the 
centre of the petal); the inner series so disposed that one fertile stamen 
is placed in front of the centre of each petal, on the inner side of the 
a in that situation, and itself flanked on either side by a gland, 
laments thread-like; anthers didymous. Ovary partly adherent, 
l-celled; styles 5, more or less connate below. Ovules numerous, 
attached to five parietal placentas. Capsule 1-celled, 1-seeded by 
abortion. Seed ovoid; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons sub-reniform, folia- 
ceous; radicle terete, thick.—Shrubs with alternate petiolate coria- 
ceous exstipulate leaves. Flowers ash-coloured, in spikes or racemes. 
—Anetia, Endl. Gen. 923. 
This genus was established by Guillemin, in Delessert’s Icones, upon a plant disco- 
vered at the Gambia by Heudelot, and considered to be the same as one referred to, 
but not named, by R. Brown, in Tuckey’s Congo. There seems to be no doubt that the 
lant of Guillemin is congeneric with that of Brown, but not specifically identical. 
T he thick fleshy hooded petals of the same size or nearly so as the sepals and the donble 
series of glands, are the main distinctive features between this genus and Homalium, 
to which, perhaps, when more ample evidence is obtained, it may be referred as a 
section. 
Petals connivent, Ovary adherent at the baseonly. . . ... 1.B Brownii. 
Petals Spreading. Ovary completely adherent. . . . . . . . 2 B. epigynus. 
1. B. Brownii, Guill. in Delessert, Ic. iii. 30, t. 52. A shrub with 
tortuous rugose branches. Leaves on very short stalks, leathery, gla- 
Tous on both surfaces, oval-oblong, feather-veined, undulate at the 
margin. Flowers in spikes at the end of the branches and in the axils 
of the leaves, small, ash-coloured, puberulous. Flower-stalks thick 
terete, rugose, transversely wrinkled. Bracts minute, ovate, acute. 
Tube obconical adherent to the base of the rbd be Sepals 5, leathery, 
greyish, puberulous, about 4 lines long, lanceolate, reflexed. Petals 
Similar to the sepals, but erect and with infolded margins. Filaments 
equalling the petals; anthers roundish, dehiscing at the sides by a 
ongitudinal chink. Styles 5, connate below into a fusiform tube, free 
above. Placentas lining the upper half of the ovary, the lower half 
destitute of ovules. Funicle slender, curved, dilated at the extremity, 
Tuit capsular, surrounded by the remains of the flower, one-seeded 
by abortion. Seed ovate, hanging from the apex of the ovarian cavity, 
and filling it; radicle erect. 
Upper Guinea. Gambia, Heudelot. jek ak 
This is the plant described by Guillemin, and considered by him to be identical with 
€ one mentioned in Brown’s Congo, but which belongs to the following species. The 
above description is condensed from that of Guillemin, as I have seen no specimen. 
2B, epigynus, Mast. in Journ. Linn, Soc. ined. A shrub or tree, 
with brown bark, thickly lenticellate. Leaves coriaceous, 4 in. long, 
13-24 in. wide, glabrous, oblong, obtuse, smooth on both surfaces, 
*ntire or nearly so. Petioles 4 in. long. Inflorescence axillary, ra- 
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