Englerodaphne^ THYMEL/EACE^ (Wright). 79 



to 1 in. long and ^ in. Avide, subacute, rounded at tlie base, quite 

 glabrous, pinnately nerved; flowers in terminal few-flowered 

 ebracteate heads; calyx glabrous; tube 6 lin. long, ampullifonu 

 below, funnel-shaped above; lobes ovate-oblong, acute, 2 lin. lono-, 

 1 lin. wide at the base ; petals 8, membranous, oblong, acute, 

 irregularly dentate; anthers oblong, | lin. long, acute; ovary 

 ovate, compressed, with straight white hairs on the upper half as 

 long as itself; style excentric, half as long as the calyx- tube ; 

 stigma capitate. Engl Pfl, Od-Afr. G. 284 ; Pearson in Dyer. FL 

 Trap. Afr. yi. i. 238 ; J. M, Wood in Tram. S, Afr. Phil. Soc, xviii. 

 219. Gnidia suhcordata, Meisn. in Linnaea, xiv, 430, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xiv. 586; Drcge, Zicci Pfl, Dociunente^ 148. 



Coast Regiox : East London Div. ; Buffalo Eiver, at second creek, Galpin, 

 1845 ! East London, Miss Wormald^ 85 ! Rattray^ 82! King "Williamstown Dlx. ; 

 King AVilliamstown, 1200 ft., Sim^ 308 ! Komgha Div. ; near Komgha, 1500 ft., 

 Flanagan, 318 ! 



Eastern Kkgion : Transkei ; Kentani, Miss Feeler, 175! Tembuland ; at the 

 edge of woods near Morley, 1000-1500 ft., Drege, 4670* li^atal ; Pietermaritz- 

 l3urg, Sim ex Wood. 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



XI. SYNAPTOLEPIS, Oliv. 



Flowers hermaplirodite. Calyx-tuhe elongated, cylindrical, at 

 length swollen below, not articulated ; lobes 5, patent. Petals 

 united into a short erect entire or obscurely 5-Iobed ring at the 

 base of the calyx-lobes. Stamens 10 in two distinct whorls at the 

 upper end of the calyx-tube, the upper opposite the calyx-lobes and 

 not exceeding the corolla ; anthers oblong with wide connective. 

 Hypogynous disc of minute scales or shortly cup-shaped, very thinly 

 membranous. Orar?(r shortly stalked, 1-ceIled, 1-ovuled ; style \ong^ 

 slender; stigma cylindrical or capitate. Fruit dry, enclosed in the 

 persistent more or less fleshy base of the calyx ; pericarp crustaceous. 

 Seed exalbuminous ; testa membranous ; cotyledons fleshy. 



Erect or climbing shrubs ; leaves alternate, membranous or subcoriaceous ; 

 flowers solitary or fascicled in the leaf-axils, sessile or shortly stalked. 



. DiSTRiB. 7 species in Tropical and South Africa. 

 Petals glabrous ; hypogynous disc of small scales ... (1) Kirkii* 



Petals fimbriate ; hypogynous disc cup-shaped, lobed ... (2) oliveriana. 



1. S. Kirkii (Oliv. in Huuk. Ic. PI. t. 1074); a much-branched 



shrub; branches divaricate, terete, slender, blackish, lenticillate ; 

 leaves opposite, ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or subacute, 

 about 12 lin. long and 5^- lin. wide, mucronulate, rounded at the 

 base, subcoriaceous, glabrous, very shortly petiolate ; flowers few in 

 axillary fascicles; calyx-tube 6-8 lin. long, slender, cylindrical 

 below, slightly widened above ; lobes oblong, 2^ lin, long, nearly 

 1 lin, wide, obtuse ; petals united into a glabrous ring ^ lin. high ; 



