'ii 



so THYMEL^ACE^ (Wright). \Synax>tolqns, 



filaments short; anthers oval; ovary shortly stalked, glabrous, 

 with a ring of minute scales at its base ; style shorter than ^the 

 calyx-tuLe; stigma small. Pearson in Dyer, FL Trop. Afr. vi. i- 



247. 



Eastkrx Rkgiox: Delagoa Bay; 3 miles north-west of Lorenzo Marquez^ 

 80 ft., Bolus, 9762! 



Also in Tropical Africa, 



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' 2. S. oliveriana (Gllg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 276) ; a spreading 



bush, about 2-3 ft. high {Monteiro) ; branches divaricate, terete, 

 blackishj lenticillate, glabrous ; leaves opposite, ovate or elliptic, up 

 to 8 lin. long and 6 lin. wide, obtuse or subacute, rounded at the 

 base, glabrous, shortly petiolecl J secondary nerves obscure; tiowers 

 white, pendulous, solitary or in pairs, axillary ; bructeoles very 

 small; calyx-tube funnel-shaped,, o lin. long, glabrous ; lobes lanceo- 

 late, 2 lin. long, ^ lin. wide ; petals united into a ring \ lin. high, 

 fimbriate; filaments short; anthers oval; ovary ovoid, sessile, 

 surrounded at the base by a wrinkled glabrous cup-shaped disc* 

 S. KirVd, Gllg in Engl, d: Prantl^ Pflaazenfam. iii, 6 A, 231, 

 fig, 81, r-J. 



EasteFvX PlEGION: Delagoa Bay, Monteiro^ 45 1 Schkchter, 12165 I 



XII. PEDDIEA, Harv. 



Flow 



rs hermaphrodite, 4-5-merous. Calyx deciduous ; tube sub- 

 cylindrical, naked in the throat ; lobes short, patent. Petals none. 

 Stamens 8 or 10, in two series included in the calyx-tube ; filaments 

 very short ; anthers oblong, with very small connective, Hypo- 

 gynous disc cup-shaped, entire or lobed. Ovary shortly stalked, 

 2-celled, cells l-ovuled ; style shortly filiform ; stigma capitate or 

 more or less saucer-shaped. Fruit naked ; exocarp fleshy ; endocarp 

 hard, 1 -(rarely 2-) seeded. Seed exalbuminous, rarely with scanty 

 albumen ; testa membranous ; cotyledons broad, rather fleshy. 



Glabroua shrubd ; leaves alternatej subcoriaceous or membranous ; flowers in 

 terminal umbels. 



DiSTRiB, 8 species in Tropical Africa and 1 in South Africa. 



1. P. africana (Harv. in Iluok. Journ. But. ii, 266, t. 10, 1840) ; a^i 



erect shrub ; branches glabrous, at length greyish ; leaves alternate 



sometimes clustered at the ends of the branches, ovate-oblung, up to 

 4r^ in, long and nearly 2 in. wide, obtuse, membranous ; peduncle 

 i-11 in. long, slender, ebracteate or with a few basal bracts, 6-12- 

 flowered ; pedicels 3-6 lin. long; calyx-tube 6 lin. long, glabrous; 

 lobes ovate, 2 lin, long, 1 lin. wide, revolute, acute ; antliers ^ be- 

 long; hypogynous disc ^ lin. long, membranous, fimbriate; ovary 

 ovoid, glabrous or hairy at the apex ; ovules pendulous. Meisn. i^ 



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