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526 t1acez (Baker). [ Gloriosa. 
3-valved. Seeds globose ; testa bright red, spongy; albumen firm in 
texture. 
Rootstock tuberous; stem slender, usually elongated and scandent; leaves 
sessile, cirrhiferous at the apex ; flowers few, large, showy, corymbose. 
DisTx1B8. Through Tropical Africa and Tropical Asia ; five species. 
Perianth- segments crisped = ah ae ee es superba. 
Perianth-segments plane ... i 5 2) virescens. 
1. G. superba (Linn. Sp. Plant. 305); stems slender, widely 
scandent ; leaves membranous, sessile, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, with 
a cirrhiferous tip, central opposite or ternate, upper ovate, alternate; 
flowers few in a lax terminal corymb; peduncles cernuous at the 
apex, 3-6 in. long, ebracteate ; perianth about 2 in. long; segments 
oblanceolate, acute, unguiculate, bright red or yellow, reflexing, 
much crisped, 31 in. broad ; stamens more than half as long as the 
perianth-segments ; anthers } in. long; style horizontal, 132 in. long. 
Bot. Reg. t. 77; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 129; Reich. Fl. Exot. t. 51; 
Wight, Ic. t. 2047 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii.457. Methonica 
superba, Lam. Encyc. iv. 133; Ill. t. 247; Red. Lil. t. 26; Kunth, 
Enum. iv. 276. 
Katanari Reeron: Transvaal; near Barberton, 2500-3000 ft., Galpin, 
760! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5812! near Rhenoster Poort, Nelson, 537! 
Also Tropical Africa and Tropical Asia. 
2. G. virescens (Lindl. in Bot. Mag. t. 2539); stems slender, 
widely scandent when well developed; leaves generally ovate with 
a cirrhiferous apex, central 2-4-nate, upper scattered ; flowers few 
in a corymb at the end of the branches ; peduncles long, slender, 
ebracteate, cernuous at the tip; perianth reflexing, generally bright 
red or yellow, 1}-2 in. long ; segnients oblanceolate, acute, unguicu- 
late, not crisped, } in. broad at the middle; stamens much shorter 
than the perianth-segments; style slender, about an inch long. 
Baker in Journ, Linn, Soc. xvii. 458. Methonica superba, 8, Lam. 
Encyc, iv. 133. M. virescens, Kunth, Enum. iv. 277; Hook. in Bot. 
oe 4938. “¢ ‘vigeat wad = Plantit, Flore des Serres, t. 865. 
. petersiana an ° i } ” Rei. . 
ae ne platyphylla, Klotzsch in Peters’ Reise Mossamb 
Oe ete E perigee a Albany, Bowker! King Williamstown 
Eastern Reaion: Pondoland, Bachmann, 254! Natal: near Durban 
Wood, 1589! und without precise locality, Plant, 19! Gerrard, 786 ! : 
Also Tropical Africa. 
XLVII. SANDERSONIA, Hook. 
Perianth gamophyllous, persistent, globose, urceolate, with 6 short, 
broadly ovate segments, and at the base 6 saccate foveoles. Stamens 6, 
hypogynous, much shorter than the perianth-tube ;_ filaments filiform ; 
anthers oblong, versatile, introrsely attached, dehiscing extrorsely. 
