380 xlviii. rosacea (oliver). [Clifortia. 



short sheathing, broadly winged by the membranous adnate stipules ; 

 leaflets narrow linear with revolute margins, so as to appear almost 

 acicular, glabrous, usually from ^— J in. long (in Cape specimens some- 

 times shorter) ; occasionally the revolute margins do not meet over the 

 under surface. Flowers almost concealed in the leaf-tufts. Male with 

 a 4 (or 3 ?)-partite calyx, segments elliptical. Stamens as many as 

 segments ; female with a single carpel, and 3 or 4 stamens inserted in 

 the throat, the anthers of which may be effete. Nut (in the Cape 

 plant) oblong-ellipsoidal, longitudinally ridged, coriaceous. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, 4500-5500 ft., Dr.Welwitsch! 

 A form occurs with the ovaries insect-punctured and berry-like. 



9. BRAYERA, Kunth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 622. 



Flowers polygamo-dioicous. Calyx-tube turbinate, hirsute, glabrous 

 and contracted at the faux within ; lobes ] 0, 2-seriate, in male flower : 

 outer segments (bjfacteoles) oblong, equalling the tube, inner obovate 

 concave, recurved "membranous much exceeding the outer : in female 

 flower : outer ovate^'or elliptic-oblong, obtuse, veined, about 3 times 

 as long as tube, inner obovate, sometimes unequal, shorter than the 

 outer lobes. Petals or 5, much shorter than calyx -lobes, linear. 

 Stamens inserted in the faucial annulus, indefinite, small or effete in the 

 female flower. Carpels usually 2, closely embraced by the calyx-tube, 

 distinct, ovary 1 -celled, with 1 pendulous ovule, silky above, narrowed 



into the style, stigma dilated, capitate, rugulose. Ripe fruit — 



Tree ; leafy extremities annulate from the scars of the sheathing stipu- 

 late leaf-base, rings at first hirsute with ascending hairs. Leaves 

 tufted, imparipinnate ; leaflets membranous, oblong-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, obtusely serrate, at length glabrous above, margin and under 

 surface more or less pilose ; stipules 1-3 or 4 in. long, adnate to the . 

 petiole nearly throughout. Flowers in ample terminal much-branched 

 pilose or pubescent panicles, with ample membranous veiny bracts at 

 each node, each with a pair of (or 3) rotundate sessile bracts at the 

 base of the calyx-tube. 



Peculiar to Abyssinia: 



1. B. anthelmintica, Kmith ; DC. Prod. ii. 588. Leaflets all sessile, 

 the lateral in about 5 pairs with an obliquely cordate base, varying to 

 3 or 4 in. in length ; minute leafy lobes are intercalated between the 

 jugae. Panicles varying in length to 1 ft. or more. — Bruce, Abyss. 

 (Ousso or Banksia dbyssinicd) vii. 181. t. 22, 23; Hagenia abyssinica, 

 Willd. Sp. PI. ii. 331. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia ! numerous collectors. 

 A celebrated anthelmintic. 



10. ROSA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PJant. i. 625 



Flowers rather large, hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube dilated, narrowed 

 at mouth ; limb 5-partite, segments spreading entire or pinnately 



