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MODECCA sENENSIS. 
Native of Mozambique and Delagoa Bay. 
Nat, Ord. PassirLorea.—Tribe Mopxccea, 
Genus Movecoa, Lam.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 818.) 
Mopxrcca (Microblepharis) senensis ; glaberrima, caule gracili ramoso scandente 
tereti, foliis ambitu late ovatis palmatim 5-partitis supra saturate 
viridibus subtus glaucis, segmentis lateralibus paribus oppositis dispositis 
sessilibus lineari-oblongis obtusis integerrimis, terminali majore trilobo 
basi cuneato in petiolulum canaliculatum angustato lobis oblongis 
obtusis, petiolo lamina breviore canaliculato apice utrinque glandula magna 
instructo, stipulis minutis subulatis caducis, cymis axillaribus dichotomis 
laxifloris cirrhiferis, bracteis minutis sparsis, floribus masce. pollicaribus, 
calyce anguste campanulato in pedicellum brevem articulatum attenuato 
stramineo breviter 5-lobo basi intus puberulo et glandulis 5 stipitatis 
ornato, lobis ovato-oblongis obtusis recurvis, petalis medio tubi insertis. 
parvis lineari-oblongis inclusis, filamentis in tubum apice 5-fidum 
conpatis, antheris lineari-oblongis. 
M. senensis, Mast, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. ii. p. 513. 
Clemanthus senensis, Klotzsch in Peters Naturwiss. Reise in Mossambig. Bot. 
p. 143. 
Modecca is a genus of tropical African Asiatic, and 
Australian plants, containing nearly forty known species. 
It is almost unknown in cultivation, only one having 
hitherto been figured in any English Horticultural work, 
the M. lobata, Jacq. (Bot. Reg. t. 433), also a tropical 
African species. All are unisexual climbers. 
M. senensis was discovered in Mozambique by the late 
Professor Peters, of Berlin, when engaged in his scientific 
exploration of that unhealthy district. More recently it 
has been found at Delagoa Bay, whence seeds were sent to 
the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1884, by Mrs. Monteiro, from 
which plants were raised that flowered in 1899. The 
specimen from which the figure is taken is that of a 
male plant which climbs the rafters of the Succulent House 
of the Royal Gardens, Kew. The flowers are fragrant. 
Deser.—A tall, slender, perfectly glabrous, rather 
glaucous climber, Stem and branches terete. Leaves 
broadly ovate in circumscription, three to four inches long, 
palmately five-partite, pale green, glaucous beneath ; 
lateral segments in opposite pairs, sessile, linear-oblong, 
Marcu Ist, 1901, 
