icONES PLA>'TARUM. 9 



posticnm parvum, clavatum. Discus nullus. Slijlus basi crasslusculns, 

 Bupra ovarium ovatum camosum subarticulatus, apice integer; uvula 

 in quoque loculo ovarii 2. Capsula ovata v. oblonga, crassa, demum 

 indurata, 4-6 lin. longa, basi obtusanec in stipitein confcracta. Semina 

 immatara ovoidea, valde rugosa. 



Tlie specimen figured belongs to the smaller form from tlio Old 

 Calabar river; the taller shrub from the Cameroons has the leaves less 

 acuminate, more coriaceous, and the caljx-lobes narrower, but all ap- 

 pear to belong to one species.— G. Bentham. 



Pig. I. and 2. Tlower. 3. Corolla cut open. 4. Anther, front and back view. 6- 

 Pistil, the ovary cut longitudinally. 



Plate 1210. 



GASTSAWTHUS SCHLECHTENDALII, Moritz. 



Acanthacej:, Tribe JusnciE^. 



Gastranthus, Moritz; Benth. et Soolc. Gen. PI. ii. 1107. 

 6. Schlechtendalii, Moritz, PL Exs. species unica. 



Hab. Venezuela, damp stady places at the hacienda Camburas, 

 near Las Laias, between Caraccas and La Victoria, Ernst ; near the 

 uolony of Tovar, 



(in fruit), 



Frutex elatior (Erjisi) ramis foliisque minute puberulis glabre^cen- 

 tibus. Foh'a ovali-elliptica, acuminata, 6-lO.pollicari'a, membranacea, 

 utrinque viridfa, basi in petiolum longiasculura contracta. b^ica^ 

 intra folia summa v. in axillis superioribus sessiles v. brevissirae pedun- 

 cnlatse, denslflorge, ^landuloso-villosoe, 8-10-pollicares. BracfecB op- 

 ^^'^^. :^ ^^-r ■« i3..r:.3„ 1 ^u^^ oTvi;Tif.TifPQ in fructifera sub viliia 



Moritz 



posita3, in 



recondit 



subtemi 



.rum 



5^. 



eegmentis 5 hnoaribus snb^qnahbus, pilis longinsculis glandulosis 

 demum rufescentibus vestitus. Corolla lutea, nibro-vittata,_a(l J in. 



demum rufescentibns vestitus. K^uiut.^^ — --, • . n ■ * • 



longa, glabra, tube basi breviter supra ovarium constncto, clem ventn- 

 coso-inflato, apice contracto ; limbus brevis, labio postico Eestivatione 

 interiore an-uste OYato integro U Hn. longo, antici lobis 3 brevissiinis 

 latis obtusis: Stamina 2, medio tubo affixa, demum exserta ; anthei^ 

 oblongo-lineares, Lloculares, medio dorso affixa3; «^ammodia nulla. 

 Discus annularis, stylus fiiiformis, apice integer. Caj)sula oblonga, 



