516 LXIII, PASSIFLOREZ (MASTERS). [ Modecea. 
7. M. Mannii, Mast. A climbing herb or undershrub, with cylin- 
drical striated branches. Leaf-stalks 1 in. long, shorter than the blade, 
provided with two sessile glands at the apex on each side; leaves 
thin, glabrous, membranous, ovate-lanceolate, entire, rounded at the 
base, unicostate, 4-8 in. long. Flower-stalks axillary, simple below, 
dividing above into a cyme and terminating in a tendril. Male fl.: 
Calyx tubular or bell-shaped, 4 in. long, limb dividing into 5 shal- 
low ovate lobes, imbricate in wstivation, the free edges entire, the 
covered margins thinner, membranous, laciniated. Petals half the 
length of the calyx. Corona membranous, laciniate, forming a shallow 
ring at the insertion of the petals. Inner corona (glands of disk) of 5 
short filiform threads, surrounding the base of the staminal tube. Sta- 
mens 5, filaments subulate, monadelphous below; anthers erect, in- 
nate, oblong, obtuse, 4-lobed, longer than the filaments. Female 
fl.: Calyx as in the male flower. Ovary stipitate; stipes encircled 
by 5 subulate staminodes; style very short, dividing into three fili- 
form stigmatic divisions ; stigmas capitate. 
Upper Guinea. Ambas Bay, Vann! 
This species has smaller flowers than the other African species of this genus. I have 
only seen imperfect female flowers. 
8. M. lobata, Jacq. Fragm. 82, t. 131. A woody climbing plant, 
20-40 ft. high, old stems often an inch in diameter, trigonous, tuber- 
cled; branches long, slender, herbaceous or somewhat woody, terete, 
striated, furrowed. Leaf-stalks of variable proportion, furrowed on the 
upper surface and furnished with a pair of large sessile olands at the 
apex ; leaves membranous, smooth, polymorphous, oblong or round- 
ish, cordate or hastate at the base, entire or more or less deeply 3-7- 
lobed, lobes obtuse or slightly pointed. Stipules minute, awl-shaped 
caducous. Tendrils axillary, floriferous or sterile, simple or branched, 
thickened at the clasping end. Male-flowered cymes branched, many- 
flowered from near the centre of the tendril. Pedicels articulate at 
apex, as long as or rather longer than the flowers. Calyx bell-shapee, 
somewhat dilated at the base, green, sweet-scented, 4-3 in. long, eB” 
ments of limb shallow, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, the covered edges ¥ 
enpleste thin, membranous and jagged at the edges, ultimately 
reflexed. Petals 5, at a distance one from another, somewhat shorter 
than the calyx, each with a long slender claw terminating in a spathu- 
late 1-nerved laciniated limb. Corona a shallow membranous J 
ring projecting from the calyx-tube at the point of attachment © the 
petals, and concealing five shallow pits in the base of the calyx-tub® 
Glands of the disk, or staminodes, 5 springing from the base 0 o 
calyx-tube opposite the pits, each flat thick capitate, somewhat T° 
curved at the apex, much shorter than the petals. Stamens 5, include’ 
or scarcely protruding ; filaments awl-shaped, coherent at the bases 
anthers basifixed, much longer than the filaments, erect, linear-oblon?: 
4-lobed, sagittate at the base, obtuse or more generally mucronate # 
the apex, often studded with glandular dots. Female fl. : sp" 
