Smeathmannia.] lxiii. passiflore^e (masters). 507 



covered with golden-brown or rust-coloured silky hairs, the covered 

 edges white, petaloid. Petals membranous, white, obtuse, exceeding 

 the calyx and attached to its throat. Corona annular, crenulate and 

 ciliate at the margin. Column bearing on its upper portion 20 stamens, 

 filaments exceeding the ovary; anthers apiculate. Ovary globose or 

 ovoid, densely hispid at the apex. Capsule not exceeding the persistent 

 calyx. Seeds pitted. — BulorDia illustris, Schum. et Thonn. PI. Guin. 

 247. S. media, R. Br. ; Linn. Trans, xiii. 220. 



Upper Guinea. Niger, Barter! Vogell Abbeokuta, Irving! Sierra Leone, 

 AfzeUus! Whitfield! and others. Bagroo river, Mann t Cape Coast, Brans! 



The leaves of this species are variable, as is also the degree of hairiness. The 

 villose ovary seems more constant. 



2. S. laevigata, B. Br. ; DC. Prod. iii. 322. An erect branched 

 shrub. Branches slender, terete, smooth or slightly downy, sulcate, 

 striate. Leaves on short stalks, coriaceous, smooth, 2-4 in. long, IJ 

 in. broad, oblong, tapering at the base, abruptly acuminate at the apex, 

 undulate, serrate, unicostate, arcuate-veined. Petiole very short, thick, 

 with two sessile glands on each side at its base. Peduncle solitary, 

 axillary, simple, 4-5 lines long, covered with brown appressed bristly 

 hairs provided at the base with two or three small coriaceous, concave, 

 oblong, obtuse bracts. Calyx campanulate, deeply five-parted, lobes 

 coriaceous, oblong, quincuncially imbricate in the bud, the exposed por- 

 tions downy, the covered edges white petaloid. Petals 5, oblong, 

 obtuse, thinner than the sepals, white, many-nerved, longer than the 

 sepals. Corona annular, laciniate and ciliated at the edge. Ovary 

 oblong-ovoid, glabrous ; styles 5, persistent, filiform, glabrous ; stigmas 

 large, capitate. Fruit ovoid or subglobose, crustaceous, smooth, red, 

 twice as long as the persistent calyx, ultimately 3-valved. Seeds pitted. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, AfzeUus! Barter! and others. Senegambia, 

 Heudelot! Perrottet. Bagroo river, Mann! 



On comparing numerous specimens of these beautiful shrubs, I find the diagnostic 

 characters laid down by Brown to be inconstant and insufficient, especially in the case 

 of the leaves, which are variable in form. The corona, which Brown says is barbate in 

 S. pubescens and beardless in S. laevigata, appears to me to be equally ciliated in both 

 species. For these reasons his species ti. media is here merged in S. pubescens, as was 

 indeed suggested by Planchon (note in Herb.). 



3. TRYPHOSTEMMA, Harv. ; Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. Plant, i. 811. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Flower-tube very short, limb divided into 

 5 or 6 oblong imbricate divisions. Petals none. Corona attached to 

 the base of the calyx, outer row nearly as long as the sepals, tubular 

 and membranous in its lower half, upper portion of numerous free wavy 

 filaments, inner row membranous, cup-shaped, much smaller than the 

 outer, encircling the base of the ovary and bearing the stamens. Sta- 

 mens 5, free, attached to the inner corona, as long as the sepals and 

 opposite to them ; anthers adnate, 2-lobed, sagittate. Ovary subsessile, 

 glabrous, 1-celledj ovules few or numerous, on 3-4 parietal placentas. 



