512 lxiii. passiflore^: (masters). [Crossostemma. 



oblong", entire, shortly acuminate, acute at the base, 3-4 in. long-. 

 Petioles glandless or with 2 small glands at the apex. Tendrils axil- 

 lary. Inflorescence axillary, solitary • common peduncle J in. long", 

 bearing a loose few-flowered cyme ; pedicels 1-flowered, jointed in the 

 middle. Bracts minute, setaceous or none. Flowers yellow (Don), 

 1J in. in diameter. Sepals and petals (in the bud) similar in form, 

 broadly ovate, concave, thickly marked with linear spots, the latter 

 coloured, 3— 5-veined, the former green, the outermost smallest with a 

 single central vein or rarely with two lateral ones in addition. Fruit . . . 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Don! 



There is a specimen of this plant in the British Museum, from which Planchon's 

 description above cited was taken. 



7. MODECCA, Lam. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant i. 813. 



Flowers regular, unisexual, dichlamydeous. Male fl. : Calyx tu- 

 bular, bell-shaped, with a five-lobed limb, sepals quincuncialiy im- 

 bricate in the bud, the overlapping edges entire, the covered margins 

 thin, crenulated. Petals 5, linear-spathulate, 1-3-nerved, laciniated, 

 springing* from the base of the flower-tube and included within it. 

 Corona forming a shallow membranous jagged ring- around the base of 

 the tube at the point of emergence of the petals, sometimes wanting*. 

 Stamens 4-5. Staminodes or glands of the disk 5, liguliform, opposite 

 to the fertile filaments, sometimes wanting*. Female fl. : Calyx and 

 petals nearly as in the male flower. Corona springing from near 

 the base of the flower-tube, membranous, jagged, adherent to the sides 

 of the claws of the petals and sending also processes inwards to the 

 inner or true staminodes. Outer staminodes, " glands of the disk," 5, 

 short, strap-shaped, capitate more or less concealed within the folds of 

 the corona ; inner staminodes 5, opposite to the sepals, awl-shaped, 

 connate at the base. Ovary stipitate, ovoid or triangular, 1 -celled with 

 three parietal placentas ; ovules stalked, projecting horizontally in- 

 wards and arranged in four vertical ranks along each placenta ; style 

 simple, short, dividing into three short branches, each terminated by a 

 large fleshy bilobed or reniform coarsely tubercled stigma. Capsule 

 stalked, coriaceous or fleshy, 3-valved or indehiscent with numerous 

 compressed lenticular seeds, each surrounded by a membranous aril ; 

 testa hard, pitted ; albumen horny. Cotyledons flat, leafy. — Herbs or 

 climbing undershrubs with slender branches provided with tendrils. 

 Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire or palmately-lobed, with 2 sessile 

 glands at the base of the limb on either side. Stipules minute, deci- 

 duous. Flower-stalks axillary, terminating in a tendril, the latter 

 thickened at the extremities. Flowers greenish or whitish. — Clemanthus, 

 Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 143. KolMa, P. de Beauv. Fl. Ow. 

 et Ben. ii. 91, t. 120. 



A genus of about twenty species, natives of the Tropical regions of Asia, Australia, 

 and Africa. The African species all belong to Wight's section Blepharanthus, charac- 

 terized by the insertion of the petals at the base of the calyx, not at the throat, and 



