Tas. 5610. 
GLYPHAA Mowrsmot. 
M. Monteiro’s Glyphea. 
Nat. Ord. Trnrracem.—PonyanpRIA Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. Sepala 5, rarius 4, libera. Petala totidem, basi nuda. Sta- 
mina oo, toro haud elevato inserta, filamentis brevibus basi in annulum 
brevissime connatis v. liberis; anthere filamentis longiores, lineares, erecta, 
connectivo apice in membranam brevissime producto. Ovariwm 4—10-locu- 
lare, loculis o0-ovulatis; stylus brevis, stigmate obtuso. Fructus oblongo- 
fusiformis, inermis, mesocarpio tuberoso, subindehiscens, oo-spermus, car- 
pellis inter semina transverse septatis. Semina in loculis 1-seriata, orbicu- 
lata v. subquadrata, compressa, verticalia, testa crustacea ; albwmen carno- 
sum; cotyledones cordato-orbiculatw.—Frutices African. Folia subin- 
tegra v. dentata, 3-plinervia. Cyme pauciflore, axillares laterales et termi-— 
nales. Flores flavi. 
Guypuma Monteiroi; ramis foliisque glabris, ramulis et inflorescentia 
stellatim pilosis, foliis ovatis oblongisve acuminatis crebre irregulariter 
dentatis, antheris basi breviter 2-lobis. 
The genus Glyphwa was established in the Flora of the 
Niger Expedition, upon a remarkable shrub discovered near 
the Congo river by Christian Smith, and which has since 
been found in Senegambia, Sierra Leone, and Fernando Po. 
More recently, two other forms or species have been de- 
tected also in tropical Africa; one on the east coast, and the 
other, the subject of the present Plate, on the south-west, 
viz. at Benguela, by M. Joachim Monteiro, to whom we are 
indebted for specimens of many curious plants, and especially 
for the Welwitschia (Tabb. 5368-69). This differs from the 
original species in the larger, broader, more ovate and more 
serrate leaves, in the much larger flower, and in the an- 
thers not being so confluent with the filaments at the base, 
but terminating in two evident lobules or teeth; whether 
these are permanent characters, or whether all the three 
Glyphawas may not be best referred to one species, is a point 
that cannot be determined without fuller materials than we 
possess. The Glyphwa Monteiroi flowered in September of 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1866. 
