512 ' LXIII. PASSIFLOREZ (MASTERS). [ Crossostemma, 
oblong, entire, shortly acuminate, acute at the base, 5-4 in. long. 
Petioles glandless or with 2 small glands at the apex. Tendrils axil- 
lary. Inflorescence axillary, solitary; common peduncle } in. long, 
bearing a loose few-flowered cyme; pedicels 1-flowered, jointed in the 
middle. Bracts minute, setaceous or none. Flowers yellow (Do), 
14. in. in diameter. Sepals and petals (in the bud) similar in form, 
broadly ovate, concave, thickly marked with linear spots, the latter 
coloured, 8—5-veined, the former green, the outermost smallest with a 
single central vein or rarely with two lateral ones in addition. Fruit... 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Don! 
There is a specimen of this plant in the British Museum, from which Planchon’s 
description above cited was taken. 
7. MODECCA, Lam.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant i. 8138. 
Flowers regular, unisexual, dichlamydeous. Male fl.: Calyx tu- 
bular, bell-shaped, with a five-lobed ae sepals quincuncially im- 
bricate in the bud, the overlapping edges entire, the covered margins 
thin, crenulated. Petals 5, linear-spathulate, 1—3-nerved, laciniated, 
springing from the base of the flower-tube and included within it. 
Corona forming a shallow membranous jagged ring around the base 0 
the tube at the point of emergence of the petals, sometimes wanting. 
Stamens 4—5, Staminodes or glands of the disk 5, liguliform, opposite 
to the fertile filaments, sometimes wanting. Female fl. : Calyx and 
petals nearly as in the male flower. Corona springing from near 
the base of the flower-tube, membranous, jagged, adherent to the sides 
of the claws of the petals and sending also processes inwards to the 
inner or true saanbibden. Outer staminodes, “glands of the disk,” 5, 
short, strap-shaped, capitate more or less concealed within the folds 0 
the corona; inner staminodes 5, opposite to the sepals, awl-shaped, 
connate at the base. Ovary stipitate, ovoid or triangular, 1-celled with 
three parietal placentas; ovules stalked, projecting horizontally 1- 
wards and arranged in four vertical ranks cae each placenta; sty’? 
simple, short, dividing into three short branches, each terminated by ® 
large fleshy bilobed or reniform coarsely tubercled stigma. Capswe 
stalked, coriaceous or fleshy, 3-valved or indehiscent with numerous 
compressed lenticular seeds, each surrounded by a membranous a1) 
testa hard, pitted; albumen horny. Cotyledons flat, leafy.—Herbs of 
climbing undershrubs with slender branches provided with tendrils. 
Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire or palmately-lobed, with 2 sessile 
glands at the base of the limb on either side. ‘Stipules minute, deel 
duous. Flower-stalks axillary, terminating in a tendril, the latter 
thickened at the extremities. Flowers greenish or whitish.—Clemanthis 
Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 143. Kolbia, P. de Beauv. Fl. OW 
et Ben. ii. 91, t. 120. f 
A genus of about twenty species, natives of the Tropical regions of Asia, Australia 
and Africa. The African species all belong to Wight'e section Blepharanthus, ae 
a 
terized by the insertion of the petals at the base of the calyx, not at the thro, 
