Plate 2356. 



irregular! ter 

 anfifustissime 



SPH^ROTHYLAX ABYSSINICA, Warming. 



P0DOSTEMACE.E. Tribe Eupodosteme^. 



S. abyssiaica, Warming in Engler and Prantl, PJlanzenfamilien 

 (Podostem. p. 22) ; caulibus dimorphis, aliis elongatis foliiferis stepius 



ramosis fluitantibus, aliis thalloideis prostratis margine ' ^1--+-" 



lobatis subaphyllis, foliis elongatis 2-3-chotomiis laciniis 

 linearibus, fioribus ^ in caulibus elongatis lateraliter glomerulatis, 

 glomerulis interdunf confluentibus, in caulibus explanatis sparsis, 

 spathella uni-flora clausa sessile basi bractea minuta deltoidea vagin- 

 ata demum apice v. lateraliter fissa, Acre incluso stipitato stipite 

 crassiusculo incurvo, antheris 2 sessilibus bilocularibus inflexis, 

 ovario obovoideo v. ellipsoideo oblique inflexo antheras 2-plo superante 

 fcasi squamellis minutis duabus lateralibus stipato, capsula ovario 

 conformi costis 8 latis deplanatis notato, stipite denique_ rigido 

 spathella 3-4-plo longiore. Anastropliea abyssinica, Wedd. in DC. 

 Prodr. xvii. 79. 



Hab. Abyssinia ; near Gaffat, Schimper, 1863 (No. 1181). 



Caules fluitantes 4-10 poll, longi ; thalloidei 1^-4 poll. diam. 



Only known to us from Scliimper's specimens. Dr. Weddell regarded 

 the andrcecium as nionandrous with a quadrilocular anther, but I t'"^*^ 

 theview taken in ' Genera Plantarum ' that it is diandrous, with the 

 ordmary ' bilocular ' anthers, clearly the right one.— D. Oliver. 



^'g. 1. Flower with incurved stipes. 2. The 8ame exserted, with basal spathella. 

 f Anthers. 4. Oipsnle. 5. Sam., laid open. 6. Two flowers, not yet emerged, 

 ifom the basal thalius. All enlarycd. 



