Modecca, } LXIII PASSIFLOREH (MASTERS). 518 
by the presence of a style and stigmatic branches. The exact nature of the corona and 
of the “glands of the disk” or outer staminodes, is doubtful, and requires an examine 
tion of fresh flowers in all stages of their development for its full elucidation. 
Leaves deeply palmately divided. 
Leaves glaucous, not glandular, unless at the base. 
Blowers tubular. os 6 ‘senensis. 
Flowers funnel- or bell-shaped. 
Corona pembrancis. 5... 6 ee ee Welwitschii. 
Corons none . <, 
Leaves with a gland.in each sinus); >. 3.238) 4 ea abyssinica. 
Leaves sprinkled over with glands.) 243-3 |. ee oe 
Leaves scabrous . . re RO eR a eee: On ee eee 
eeeres Court, not cordate... f. <4. ke ete ce a 
Leaves cordate, entire or divided into shallow lobes . . . . . 8. I lobata. 
1. M. senensis, Mast. A climbing shrub with terete or obscurely 
angular, smooth, sulcate, striated branches. Leat-stalks shorter than 
the blades, channelled on the upper surface, twisted, deflexed and 
aving two sessile glands on each side at the apex; leaf-blades deeply 
palmately lobed, lobes membranous, smooth, glaucous beneath, oblong, 
obtuse, tapering at the base into a short petiolule, entire or irregularly 
pinately lobed, midrib prominent on the under surface; 3-5 in. long, 
1-2 in. wide, the central lobe largest. Stipules minute, awl-shaped, 
caducous. Peduncle axillary, as long as the leaf, bearing a few- 
flowered cyme in the middle and prolonged into a tendril, Male 
:: Calyx ? in. long, limb divided into 5 entire linear-oblong di- 
Visions. Petals membranous, entire, their long stalks adherent 
for the greater portion of their length to the inner surface of the 
calyx-tube, included. Corona of 5 short flat capitate filaments, alter- 
hating with the petals. Stamens 5, filaments monadelphous at the 
ase, above free, thread-like; anthers innate, linear-oblong, obtuse, 
2-lobed. Rudiment of the pistil minute. Ovary (according to Klotzsch) 
Stipitate, oblong, 1-celled ; ovules numerous, on 3 parietal placentas ; 
style very short ; stigmas 3, large, reniform. Fruit stipitate, stipes 
encircled with the persistent remnant of the calyx, oblong, obtuse, 
smooth, 2-3 in. long, 3-valved, valves coriaceous, orange-red, smooth, 
Seeds compressed, lenticular, pitted, surrounded by a membranous aril, 
—Clemanthus senensis, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 148, 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi, Senna, and elsewhere, Dr. Kirk ! 
., Although I have not seen perfect female flowers of this species, I have no doubt that 
t should be referred to Modecca. Klotzsch described the petals as staminodes, and 
‘pparently had not seen the fruits. In the short style it approximates to the Indian 
Species of the section Microblpharis. The staminal tube is likewise longer than in 
the other African species. Dr. Kirk describes the petioles as exceeding in thickness the 
branch that bears them, but this is not apparent in the dried specimens. 
2. M. Welwitschii, Must. A climbing undershrub with slender, 
cylindrical, sulcate, flexuose branches. Leaves membranous, glaucous, 
In. long, 32 in. wide, palmately 5-lobed, lobes oblong-lanceolate, 
‘apering at the base into a short stalk, 1-nerved, arch-veined, the two 
Wer lobes smallest, directed downwards, the two median ones ascend- 
‘ng, the middle or terminal lobe much the largest and often 3-lobulate, 
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