Ammannia.\ lviii. ltthkace.® (hiern). 481 



siderably, about £ in. long". Flowers subsessile, 3-7 together, hairy- 

 Bracts leaf-like, embracing' the outer flowers, or linear subulate, hairy. 

 Calyx campanulate, afterwards shortly campanulate, with 4 short lobes 

 and 4 longer cornua, yellowish when young. Petals 4, lanceolate, 

 minute, pale yellow or wanting. Stamens 4, exserted, or rarely 8 of 

 which 4 are included. Ovary 2-celled ; style of moderate length. Cap- 

 sule transversely dehiscent, subglobular or ellipsoidal, reddish, some- 

 what exceeding the calyx. 



Lower Guinea. Angola, Huilla, fl. and fr. March, Dr. Welmtsch I 



6. WOODPOBDIA, Salisb. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant, i. 778. 



Calyx tubular, coloured, somewhat curved and widened upwards, termi- 

 nating with an oblique mouth which has 6 small equal deltoid lobes and 

 as many external callous points or short cornua, glabrescent, persistent, 

 in fruit oval-oblong and contracted at the mouth. Petals o, opposite 

 the cornua, lanceolate-linear^ acute, very small or wanting. Stamens 

 12, inserted near base of calyx, much exserted, decimate, the alternate 

 ones longer ; filaments filiform, curved near the apex ; anthers ovate, 

 attached by the middle of the back to the filaments. Ovary free 

 oblong, narrowing at apex into style, 2-eelled, somewhat laterally com- 

 pressed; ovules numerous; style filiform, curved, exserted; stigma 

 punctiform, emarginate-. Capsule 2rcelled, linear-oblong, included in 

 the calyx; pericarp membranous; placenta thick. Seeds small. — A 

 shrub or moderate-sized tree with opposite subsessile leaves, red 

 flowers arranged in axillary clusters or rarely solitary, and pedicels 

 dilated at the apex and bearing 2 small bracts at the base. 



A genus of but one species, inhabiting also China, East India, Madagascar, and 

 r Comorin Islands. 



1. W. floribunda, Salisb. Parad. Land. t. 42. Much branched shrub 

 scattered with minute black glands, especially on the leaves. Leaves 

 opposite, entire, rounded or subcordate at base, subsessile, ovate-lanceo- 

 late or lanceolate, acuminate, paler beneath, coriaceous ; midrib lateral 

 and marginal veins depressed or weak above and raised beneath. Pe- 

 dicels dilated upwards and continuous with inferior portion of ovary. 

 Flowers about f in. long to end of stamens. Calyx about \ in. long, 

 by | in. wide, red ; lobes y 1 ^ in. deep. Stamens nearly the same length, 

 but alternate ones rather longer; anthers dark red. Style thicker than 

 filaments, tapering. — Grislea tomentosa, Roxb. ; DC, Prod. iii. 92. 



This plant appears to be trimorphic according to the relative length of the style and 

 stamens. It reaches 7000 ft. in Abyssinia Flowers in December and January. 



Var. a. tomentosa*. Leaves griseo-tomentose, peduncles 4-8 flowered. Petals longer 

 than calycine lobes, Grislea multi/loia, Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 281. 



Var. j3. gldbrata. Leaves subpubescent or subglabrous, peduncle 1-flowered. Petals 

 shorter than calycine lobes. Grislea uniflora, Rich. I.e. ; G. micropetala, Hochst. 

 Abyssinian names, FisbSael.to, Dis-bellalloo. 



Nile Land. a. and ft. Abyssinia, Schimperl &c. /3. Sennaar, Kotschyt 



