12 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
fasciculos floram in pulvinos intumescens ; bracteole in pulvinis 
minute, subulate; flores gracile breviter pedicellati. Pericixthsun $ 
4-2 poll. longum, are concavis petalisque erectis; 9 magis cam- 
nulatum, masculo dimidio brevius, sepalis latioribus et petalis 
abbreviatis, sacnien tis 3 subulatis. Capsule in rhachi brevi aggre- 
gate, Vi day oo gt poll. diametro, pallidze, leaves, valvis tenuiter 
coriaceis. Semina parva, orbicularia, valde compressa, testa irregu- 
lariter impresso-punctata. 
This is certainly a most remarkable species of Modecca, if, indeed, it 
should not form a subgenus characterised by the habit and the curious 
entire large umbraculiform stigma, in which I see no trace of 
lobing. The female flowers I have not seen in situ, and cannot say 
whether they are seated on an elongated rhachis like the males ; the 
Mere which are ters * cor Hes 
: . Vertical section of ¢ flower. 2. Petal. 3. Stamen. 4. Vertical section 
of hy Frond —All enlarged. 
PuaTe 1318. 
STELLULARIA NIGRICANS, Benth. 
ScROPHULARINER, Tribe GERARDIEZ (BUCHNERE®). 
llularia, Benth., gen. nov. Calyx tubulosus, 7-8-nervis, dentatu 
v. breviter 4-fidus. Corolle tubus tenuis, rectus, limbus ae abens, 
subequaliter 5-partitus, wise undulatis vix levissime imbricatis (2 pos- 
ticis interioribus ? na 4, inclusa, didynama, filamentis brevi- 
bus ; antherz L-loculares, Sores 
utic 
(angulata ?), in genie se vix : ee. 
c 
a@ opposita. linearia. Flores in spica terminali sessiles, 
singuli bractea bracteolisque 2 stipati. 
§. nigrescens, Benth. (single species ?). 
Has. West tropical Africa, Angola Expedition, Welwitsch, n. 5838. 
Rey sin erecta, rigidula, ut videtur annua et verisimiliter in radicibus 
ramealia minora ot an astiors, om integerrima scabro-puberula. 
Spice supra foliorum par erin ecetie pedunculate, dense, cylin- 
