Semonvillea. ] LXVII, FICOIDEZ (OLIVER). 595 
-—Annual erect or diffuse glabrous herbs. Leaves alternate, linear, 
rather fleshy, exstipulate. Flowers small, greenish, in small pedun- 
culate subcapitate (or forked and unilateral) cymes. 
The following species is peculiar to this Flora; a second species is found at the Cape. 
1. S. pterocarpa, J. Gay; DC. Prod. xiii. pt.2,19. Erect glabrous 
glaucous repeatedly branched herb of 1-24 ft. Leaves linear, subacute, 
1-2 in. long, 1-2F lines broad.. Cymes 10—12-flowered, terminal and 
leaf-opposed, pedunculate ; pedicels very short, bracteolate. Stamens 
6-7. Fruit-carpels much compressed, orbicular, 4—5 lines diameter, 
each with a basal sinus in the broad radiately-nerved entire marginal 
wing.— S, punctata, Steud. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia (fl. Aug. and Sept.), Roger! Leprieur ! 
Nile Land. Kordofan, Cienkowski. 
13. LIMEUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 859. 
Flowers hermaphrodite (or unisexual). Sepals 5, nearly equal, her- 
aceous or with broad membranous margins. Petals 0 or 3-5, oval 
er spathulate, shorter than sepals. Stamens 5-10, hypogynous, 
laments dilated at base and very shortly connate or confluent with 
disk, Ovary free, 2-celled; stigmas 2; ovules solitary. Fruit dicoc- 
cous, nuts bony, more or less plano-convex, dorsally sculptured or 
plane; seed vertical.—Herbs, diffuse or ascending, glandular, viscid or 
glabrous. Leaves alternate or subopposite, exstipulate. Flowers 
Small, bracteate, in elomerate, sessile or pedunculate, lateral or terminal 
cymes, 
A small genus of Tropical and South Africa and India. 
More or less glandular-hispidulous. Nuts areolate-sculptured, 
aves oblanceolate to rotundate obtuse. Cymes lax or subcom- 
pact, often pedunculate . egicei Bdiee STs 
eaves oval or ovaloblong. Cymes dense 4-3 in. diameter, 
sessile ee er ee rey eee 
Glandular-puberulous or glabrate. Nuts dorsally smooth. Leaves ae 
rotundate 6 ee ee Ue Ci a 2 ee ee ee 
labrous. Leaves linear to oval, acute. Nuts dorsally tubercled . 4. L. linifolium. 
1. L. viscosum. 
2. L. Meyert. 
1. L. viscosum, Fenzl ; DC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2, 23. Glandular-viscid, 
diffuse or ascending flaccid annual, more or less divaricately branched, 
3~1 ft. or more. Leaves alternate from broadly oblanceolate or ellip- 
tical to rotundate, cuneately narrowed at base into the petiole, glandu- 
ar-puberulous or glabrate, 4-1 in. long; petiole usually distinct. 
lowers in extra-axillary more or Jess compact, distinctly ey 
or subsessile cymes. Sepals subherbaceous, viscid. Petals usually 0. 
tamens 7, inserted in hypogynous disk. Nuts about 'y in, diameter, 
8crobiculate- or areolate-rugose.— Gaudinia viscosa, J. Gay in Feruss. 
ull. xviii, 412, 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Sieber! Leprieur! 
Nile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy ! 
