594 lxvii. ficoide2e (oliver). [Gisekia. 



mous flexuose branches from a few inches to 1-2 ft. in length. Leaves 

 mostly nearly opposite, linear oval or elliptic-oblanceolate, obtuse or 

 subacute, entire, narrowed to the petiole, rather fleshy ; lamina varying 

 from J to 2 in. in length. Cymes umbelliform, usually sessile or sub- 

 sessile at the nodes and shorter than the leaves, often many-flowered ; 

 pedicels usually 1-4 times as long as the flower. Flowers 1 line long. 

 Stamens 5. Carpels normally 5. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia (/3. Sieberi, Moq.), Sieber ! Niger, Barter! var. 

 pedunculata, peduncles i~l in. ; (G. linear if olia, Schum. et Thonn. PL Guin. 167). 

 Guinea, Thonning. var. congesta {G. congesta, Moq. in DC. Prod. I.e. 28), cymes pedun- 

 culate, subcapitate, Senegambia ! 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Ehrenberg ! Kordofan, Kotschy! and other provinces. 



Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith I Loanda and Pungo Andongo ; var. congesta, 

 Ambriz and Mossamedes (a remarkably fine series), Dr. Welwitsch 1 



Also south of the Tropic and Eastward to India. 



2. G. rubella, Hoehst ; DC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2, 27. All the general 

 characters of G. pharnaceoides ; ascending-, leaves linear or linear-oval, 

 1J-2 in. long-. Cymes umbelliform, at length pedunculate, forming 

 lax diffuse panicles ; peduncles 2 in. or shorter, very slender ; pedicels 

 J- J in. Flowers as in G. pharnaceoides, of which it may be a variety. — 

 G. linearifolia, Fenzl in Kotschy, PI. iEthiop. (Jide Moquin). 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Kordofan, Kotschy i 



3. G. Miltus, Fenzl; DC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2, 28. Annual, wholly gla- 

 brous, forming sometimes a woody stock, in habit resembling G. pharna- 

 ceoides, with long slender diffuse forking branches. Leaves of G. phar- 

 naceoides. Cymes usually many-flowered, and sessile at the nodes $ 

 pedicels 1^4 times longer than flowers. Perfect flowers with from 

 about 10-15 stamens ; filaments very shortly cohering in phalanges at 

 base. Carpels normally 5. Staminate flowers (small and later ?) with 

 about 15 stamens; pistillate with 12-15 carpels. Fruit as in G. phar- 

 naceoides. — Miltus africana, Lour. Fl. Coch. 302. Glinus mozamhicensis, 

 Spreng. Syst. ii. 4t67. 



Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Dr. Y/elwitsch! 



Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Loureiro, Forbes! Luabo and Mouth of Zam- 

 besi, Dr. Kirk ! 



Var. pedunculata (G. aspera, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 136), cymes pedun- 

 culate; near Mossamedes, Dr. Welwitsch! also Tette, Zambesi, Dr. Kirk! 



Probably identical with G. pentadecandra, E Mey., ot the Cape Flora. The leaves are 

 as long as in G. pharnaceoides, not 1-4 lines as misquoted by Moquin. Dr. Wawra 

 gathered 0. pentadecandra, E. M., near Benguela, according to " Sertum Bengue- 

 lense,'' 23. 



12. SEMONVILLEA, Gay ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 859. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, nearly equal, ovate or elliptical, 

 with broad membranous margins. Petals (in S. pterocarpd). Stamens 

 6-7, hypogynous. Ovary free, 2-celled ; styles 2, very short, stigma- 

 tose ; ovules solitary. Fruit orbicular, dorsally compressed, separating 

 in two, broadly winged, 1-seeded cocci; seed erect; embryo annular. 



