366 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
Cirrhi axillares, simplices v. ramosi, interdum floriferi. Folia 
2-3 poll. longa et lata, petiolo subpollicari, glandula majus- 
cula ad summum apicem petioli in facie superiori. Panicule 
vel terminales vel axillares supra cirrhos enatz, laxæ, e cymis 
paucis secus rhachin alternis breviter pedunculatis composite, 
rhachi interdum in cirrhum abeunte. Flores fceminei tantum 
adsunt, 5-6 lin. diametro, tubo late hemisphzrico, laciniis 
calycinis ovato-lanceolatis acutis integerrimis, sestivatione sub- 
valvatis, lineis coloratis crebris percursis. Petala fere di- 
midio breviora, ad basin laciniarum inserta et cum iis alter- 
nantia, anguste linearia, persistentia, consistentia calyci similia 
v. paullo tenuiora. Corona pilorum brevissimorum sub 
petalorum insertione vix conspicua. Sguame (seu stamina 
abortiva?) 5, breves, acute, disco hypogyno tenui in fundo 
calycis insertz. Ovarium fere sessile, ovato-globosum, sub- 
triquetrum, glaberrimum. Stigmata 3, subsessilia, flabellata, 
crenata, — Placente 3, parietales, pluriovulatz. 
2. Modecea cynanchifolia, Benth. ; foliis cordato-ovatis oblon- 
gisve acuminatis vix sinuatis membranaceis concoloribus, 
petiolo apice glandulifero, fl. masc. petalis oblongo-linearibus 
margine fimbricatis ad basin loborum calycinorum insertis et 
-eos sub:equantibus.— Fernando Po, Vogel. ; 
Tota planta glaberrima. Rami tenues. Cirrhi et inflorescentia 
M. cissampeloidis. Folia letevirentia, 2-4 poll. longa, 12 
poll. lata, basi late cordata, subtrinervia, margine integerrima 
v. obsolete sinuata. Glandula nunc ad apicem petioli, nunc 
in limbo ipso ad insertionem petioli sita. Flores quam 1? 
M. cissampeloidi minora videntur, sed in specimine unico 
mascula et vix aperta. Calycis lacini anguste oyato-oblonge, 
lineato-punctatze, margine membranaceo-hyaline, integro, 
sstivatione valyate v. vix angustissime imbricate. P etala 
membranaceo-alba, tenuia et vix punctata, obtusa, marginibus 
breviter lacero-fimbriatis. Corona e filis paucis brevissimis 
composite. Anthere 5, majuscule, oblonge, filamentis bre- 
vissimis. Ovarii rudimentum minimum. 
3. Modecca? tenuifolia, Planch. in Herb. Hook; foliis cordato- 
ovatis acuminatis integris v. sinuato-lobatis membranaceis 
