Semonvillea.] lxvii. ficoide^; (oliver). 595 



— Annual erect or diffuse glabrous herbs. Leaves alternate, linear, 

 rather fleshy, exstipulate. Flowers small, greenish, in small pedun- 

 culate subcapitate (or forked and unilateral) cymes. 

 The following species is peculiar to this Flora ; a second species is found at the Cape . 



1. S. pterocarpa, /. Gay; DC. Prod, niii.pt. 2, 19. Erect glabrous 

 glaucous repeatedly branched herb of 1^2J ft. Leaves linear, subacute, 

 1-2 in. long, 1-2J lines broad. Cymes 10-12-flowered, terminal and 

 leaf-opposed, pedunculate ; pedicels very short, bracteolate. Stamens 

 6-7. Fruit-carpels much compressed, orbicular, 4-5 lines diameter, 

 each with a basal sinus in the broad radiately-nerved entire marginal 

 wing. — S. punctata, Steud. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia (fl. Aug. and Sept.), Boger I Leprienr I 

 Nile Land. Kordofan, Cienhowski. 



13. LIMEUM, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 859. 



Flowers hermaphrodite (or unisexual). Sepals 5, nearly equal, her- 

 baceous or with broad membranous margins. Petals or 3-5, oval 

 or spathulate, shorter than sepals. Stamens 5-10, hypogynous, 

 filaments dilated at base and very shortly connate or confluent with 

 disk. Ovary free, 2-celled ; stigmas 2 ; ovules solitary. Fruit dicoc- 

 cous, nuts bony, more or less plano-convex, dorsally sculptured or 

 plane ; seed vertical. — Herbs, diffuse or ascending, glandular, viscid or 

 glabrous. Leaves alternate or subopposite, exstipulate. Flowers 

 small, bracteate, in glomerate, sessile or pedunculate, lateral or terminal 

 cymes. 

 A small genus of Tropical and South Africa and India. 



More or less glandular-hispidulous. Nuts areolate-sculptured. 



Leaves oblanceolate to rotundate obtuse. Cymes lax or subcom- 



pact, often pedunculate 1. L. viscosum. 



Leaves oval or oval oblong. Cymes dense £-§ in. diameter, 



sessile 2. L. Meyeri. 



Glandular-puberulous or glabrate. Nuts dorsally smooth. Leaves 



rotundate 3. L. ivdicum. 



Glabrous. Leaves linear to oval, acute. Nuts dorsally tubercled . 4. L. liaifolium. 



1. L. viscosum, Fenzl ; DC. Prod., xiii.pt. 2, 23. Glandular-viscid, 

 diffuse or ascending flaccid annual, more or less divaricately branched, 

 J— 1 ft. or more. Leaves alternate from broadly oblanceolate or ellip- 

 tical to rotundate, cuneately narrowed at base into the petiole, glandu- 

 lar-puberulous or glabrate, ^-1 in. long; petiole usually distinct. 

 Flowers in extra-axillary more or less compact, distinctly pedunculate 

 or subsessile cymes. Sepals subherbaceous, viscid. Petals usually 0. 

 Stamens 7, inserted in hypogynous disk. Nuts about T x ? in. diameter, 

 scrobiculate- or areolate-rugose. — Gaudinia viscosa, J. Gay in Feruss. 

 Bull, xviii. 412. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Sieber I Leprieur! 

 Nile Land. Kordofan, Kotschyl 



