Paropsia] LXi. PASSiFLOREiE, 383 



2. PAROPSIA Noronh. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 812. 



1. P. grewioides Welw. ex Masters in OHv.Fl.Trop.Afr. ii. p. 505. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An arborescent shrub or a small tree, 8 to 12 ft. 

 high, or even exceeding 25 ft., with a broad leaf}' head and the habit 

 of a Greivia ; branches and branchlets erect or erect-patent, slender, 

 leafy, the younger ones rufous-tomentose ; leaves evergreen, sub- 

 coriaceous, rather rigid and glossy on both surfaces, yellowish-green, 

 slightly paler beneath, emerging from two fugacious stipules : calyx 

 fuscous- or cinnamoii-tomentose, 5-partite ; segments valvate from the 

 base to the middle, imbricate towards the apex, covered on the inner 

 surface with yellowish-red tomentum; petals from a pale colour turning 

 dark yellow, rather fleshy, less densely velvety than the sepals. Between 

 the petals and stamens there are placed 10 staminodes, rather long, rigid, 

 truncate, fuscous-tomentose, of which the 5 alternate ones are much 

 narrower than the rest. Stamens 5, inserted between the staminodes 

 and the base of the ovary, flattened at the base and gradually narrowed 

 upwards, dark-red ; anthers cordate-sagittate, of a whitish rose colour 

 or almost red, 2-celled, introrsely dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 

 ovoid, subsessile, densely fuscous-tomentose, 1-celled ; ovules several ; 

 placentas 3, parietal ; styles 3, divaricate ; stigmas cordate-obtuse, 

 white or whitish, hirsute on the back ; capsule an inch long, peduncu- 

 late, axillary, obovoid-clavate when not quite ripe, green outside and 

 beset with fuscous rigid readily caducous pilose hairs, surrounded at the 

 base with the remains of the calyx and corolla, obtusely umbonate at 

 the apex, 1-celled, 3-valved. Seeds horizontal, with a sufficiently long 

 funicle, rather large, about 18 to 24, covered with whitish viscid 

 membranous aril. In the loftier primitive forests of Serra de Alto 

 Queta ; fl. beginning of Jan. 1856, sparingly in fr. 17 March 1856, and 

 ripe fr. April 1856. No. 873. 



The following specimen in the carpological collection seems to 

 belong here : — 



GrOLUXGO Alto. — A subarborescent shrub, standing erect ; capsules 

 obovoid, rather more than an inch long ; seeds $ by ^ in. when dry. 

 ■Coll. Carp. 593. 



* 3. ADENIA Forsk. Fl. ^gypt.-Arab. p. 77 (1775). 



Modecca Lam. (1797) ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 813. 



1. A. Welwitschii Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xiv. p. 375 (1892). 

 Modecca Welwitschii Masters in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 513. 



Pttngo Andongo. — A climbing glaucous undershrub ; leaves pal- 

 mately 5-lobed, with the middle lobe usually trifid ; petiole biglandular 

 at the apex, furnished at the base on each side with a small lanceolate 

 nearly free stipule ; flowers axillary, unisexual, apparently strictly 

 dioecious, orange-red, nodding, nearly an inch long. Of the male 

 flowers calyx exinvolucrate, cyathiform, with a rather long gradually 

 widened tube, and limb cleft into 5 broadly lanceolate lobes spreading 

 at the time of flowering ; petals 5, lanceolate, greenish, inserted at the 

 middle of the calyx-tube, reaching somewhat higher than the base of 

 the calyx-lobes, alternating with the calyx-lobes, corona annular, con- 

 sisting of short very slender erect fringes ; stamens 5, springing from 

 the bottom of the calyx, a little higher than the petals, subexserted ; 

 filaments connate into a tube up to the middle, and then free, flattened, 

 opposite to the calyx-lobes ; anthers attached to the filaments at their 



