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Plate 2420. 



AFEOMENDONCIA LINDAVIANA, Gily 



AcAXTirACE.E. Tribe Thunbergie.e. 



in Enyler, Bot. Jalirb, xvli. (1893), 112; 

 caule florifero sulcato nonnunqucam torto, 



petioli 6-9 lin. longi. 

 pedicelli 6-9 lin. longi. 



A. lindaviana, Gilg 



frutex alte scandens 



ramulis foliiferis gracilibus subteretibus glabris, foliis pctiolatis ovali- 

 oblongis V. anguste ellipticis obtusiuscule acuminatis, nervis primariis 

 lateralibus utrinque 3-4 incurvatim confluentibus tenuiter coriaccis 

 glabris subtus (in sicco) rubescentibus, floribiis pediceliatis in axillis 

 foliorum delapsorum fasciculatis, alabastris bracteolatis ellipsoideis 

 apiculatis, calycis cupuliformis ovario dimidio brevioris inargine truncato 

 late undulato-lobato, corolLe tubo bracteolas paulo superante linibi 

 bilabiati segmentis fere ^equilongis obovato-rotundatis patentibus. 



IIab. W. Tropical Africa: Corisco Bay, J/a?2?i (No. 181:9); Sibange 

 Farm on the Gaboon, Soyaiix (No. 15G). 



Rami floriferi 3-6 lin. diam. Folia 3-4| poll. Tonga, 1-2 poll, lata ; 



Alahastra etiam inaperta 3-4 lin. longa ; 

 Flores -^ poll. diam. Ovarium ovoideum, 

 labrum, imiloculare, biovulatuni, basi disco carnosulo circumdatum ; 

 ovula collateralia ; stylus bracteolas superans, apicem versus leviter 

 dilatatus ; stigma brevissime 2-lobulatum. 



This plant was described, but never published, by the late Dr. T. 

 Anderson as a new species of Thunhergia^ and I am not sure the wuser 

 course would not be to leave it in that genus or, rather, in Mendoncia^ 

 in which suppression of one cell of the ovary occurs ; but as Dr. Gilg 

 has founded a new genus for it, and thinks the fruit may be capsular — 

 not drupaceous, as in Mendoncia — rather than give a new name to it, 

 I prefer to leave it with Di\ Gilg. Dr. Lindau {I. c. p. 113) calls 

 attention to the abnormal structure of the stem, 'in many respects 

 recalling that of Bignoniacese,' of which he proposes to give a separate 

 account. — D. Oliver. 



Fig. 1. Bud, one of the enclosing bracteolas removed. 2. Corolla laid open. 3. An- 

 ther, Lack and front. 4. Pistil, with disk and calyx. 5. Longitudinal, and 6, trans- 

 verse section of ovary. AU enlarged. 



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