Smeathmannia.] _ LXTII. PASSIFLOREE (MASTERS). 507 
covered with golden-brown or rust-coloured silky hairs, the covered 
edges white, petaloid. Petals membranous, white, obtuse, sangeet 
the calyx and attached to its throat. Corona annular, crenulate an 
ciliate at the margin. Column bearing on its upper portion 20 stamens, 
filaments exceeding the ovary; anthers apiculate. Ovary globose or 
ovoid, densely hispid at the apex. Capsule not exceeding the air 
calyx. Seeds pitted.—Biilowia illustris, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 
~47. 8. media, R. Br. ; Linn. Trans. xiii. 220. 
Upper Guinea. Niger, Barter! Vogel! Abbeokuta, Irving! Sierra Leone, 
Afzelius ! Whitfield! and others. Bagroo river, Mann! Cape Coast, Brass ! 
The leaves of this species are variable, as is also the degree of hairiness. The 
villose Ovary seems more constant. 
2. S. levigata, R. Br.; DC. Prod. iii. 322. An erect branched 
shrub. Branches slender, terete, smooth or slightly downy, sulcate, 
striate. Leaves on short stalks, coriaceous, smooth, 2-4 in. long, 1} 
In. broad, oblong, tapering at the base, abruptly acuminate at the apex, 
undulate, serrate, unicostate, arcuate-veined. Petiole very short, thick, 
With two sessile glands on each side at its base. Peduncle eet i 
axillary, simple, 4—5 lines long, covered with brown appressed bristly 
hairs provided at the base with two or three small coriaceous, concave, 
oblong, obtuse bracts. Calyx campanulate, deeply five-parted, lobes 
coriaceous, oblong, quincuncially imbricate in the bud, the exposed por- 
tons downy, the covered. edges white petaloid. Petals 5, oblong, 
obtuse, thinner than the sepals, white, many-nerved, longer than the 
sepals. Corona annular, laciniate and ciliated at the edge. Ovary 
oblong-ovoid, glabrous; styles 5, persistent, filiform, glabrous; stigmas 
ange, capitate.” Fruit oyoid or subglobose, crustaceous, smooth, red, 
twice as long as the persistent calyx, ultimately 3-valved. Seeds pitted. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Barter! and others. Senegambia, 
Heudelot! Perrottet. Bagroo river, Mann! : Y 
On comparing numerous specimens of these beautiful shrubs, I find the diagnostic 
characters laid down by Brown to be inconstant and insufficient, especially in the case 
of the leaves, which are variable in form. ‘The corona, which Brown says is barbate in 
. pubescens and beardless in S. levigata, appears to me to be equally ciliated in both 
species. For these reasons his species S. media is here merged in S. pubescens, as was 
indeed suggested by Planchon (note in Herb.). 
3. TRYPHOSTEMMA, Harv.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. i. 811. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Flower-tube very short, limb divided into 
» or 6 oblong imbricate divisions. Petals none. Corona attached to 
the base of the calyx, outer row nearly as long as the sepals, tubular 
and membranous in its lower half, upper portion of numerous free wavy 
‘ments, inner row membranous, cup-shaped, much smaller than the 
Outer, encircling the base of the ovary and bearing the stamens. Sta- 
mens 5, free, attached to the inner corona, as long as the sepals and 
*Pposite to them; anthers adnate, 2-lobed, sagittate. Ovary subsessile, 
Slabrous, 1-celled; ovules few or numerous, on 3—4 parietal placentas. 
