Paropsia. | LX1II. PASSIFLORE (MASTERS). 505 
1. PAROPSIA, Noronh.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 812. 
Flowers dichlamydeous, hermaphrodite. Flower-tube very short, 
lobes oblong, obtuse, downy. Petals oblong or linear-spathulate, uni- 
costate. Corona laciniate, segments linear, ciliated, arranged in 5 
bundles opposite to the petals. Stamens 5, monadelphous, adherent at 
the base to the gynophore ; anthers cordate. Ovary ovoid on a short 
stalk; styles 3; stigmas capitate ; ovules numerous, attached to parietal 
lacentas. Capsule subglobose, 3-valved, valves membranous, downy. 
eeds ovoid, compressed, with a long funicle which expands into a 
cup-shaped membranous arillus ; testa crustaceous, pitted. Embryo in 
the centre of fleshy albumen ; cotyledons leafy.—Shrubs more or less 
covered with rusty down. Leaves coriaceous, oblong. Stipules none. 
Flowers small, numerous, in dense terminal panicles or solitary. 
A genus of four or five species, some natives of Madagascar and the Malayan Archi- 
pelago, others of West Tropical Africa. 
Flowers in axillary fascicles . 
lowers solitary 
1. P. guineensis. 
2. P. grewioides. 
1. P. guineensis, liv. in Journ. Linn. Soe. viii. 161. A shrub whose 
cylindrical branches are densely clothed with rusty tomentum. Leaves 
on short cylindrical stalks, subcoriaceous, 5—7 in. long, 2-8 in. wide, 
elliptic, acuminate, repando-dentate, unicostate, arcuate-veined ; veins 
“wny on the under surface. Stipules none (or minute and caducous ?) 
lowers numerous, small, appearing before the leaves, shortly pedicel- 
late, pedicels fasciculate, in the axils of small ovate caducous bracts ; 
tufts arraneed in long terminal much-branched panicles. Calyx cam- 
panulate, owny; tube very short, limb divided into 5 coriaceous 3- 
herved seoments. Petals 5, springing from the throat of the calyx, 
membranous, whitish, pilose externally, twice the length of the sepals, 
°rona attached to the base of the calyx-tube and consisting of a 
Shallow membranous tube or ring, divided at its upper margin into 
numerous linear ciliated segments half the length of the petals. Column 
short, smooth, bearing at its upper portion 5 flat filaments; anthers 
song, 2-celled. Ovary globose, as ie as the filaments, glabrous, 
1-celled, With 3 parietal placentas opposite to the filiform style; stigmas 
arge, capitate, reniform. Fruit... .? 
Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Rev. W. C. Thomson! : : 
., Viffers considerably in habit from the Malayan and Madagascan species, but is nearly 
identical with them in the conformation of the flowers. 
2. PB, Srewioides, Welwitsch in Herb. A shrub or small tree, 8-20 
ein height, with the aspect of a Grewia. Branches erect, slender, 
terete, purplish with reddish down. Leaves 4 in. long, 1} in. wide, 
subcoriaceous, dark shining green above, paler beneath, glabrous or 
slightly pubescent along the nerves, oblong, abruptly acuminate, serru- 
ate, unicostate, arch-veined, tapering at the base into a short glandless 
Stalk. Stipules fugacious, very minute. Peduncles axillary, erect, one- 
