Gardeiiia.] Lxx. rubiackje (uiern). 101 



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or fibrous. Seeds naraerous, taking 2 or 3 years to ripen ; placentas 

 4-6.— Linn. f. Suppl. Sp. PL p. 162 (1781) ; Bot. Mag. t. 1004. 

 Bergldas, Sonnerat, Voy. N. Gruin. p. 47, tt. 17, 18 (1776). Thunhergia 

 capensis, Montin in Act. Holmiens. 1773, p. 289, t. 11. G. verticillata. 

 Lam. Encycl. ii. p. 607 (1786). Gaquepiria Berghia^ Graelin Syst. 

 p. 651 (1791). 0. speciosa, Salisb. Prod. Stirp. Hort. Chap. AUert. 

 p. 63 (1796). G. crassicaulis, Salisb. Parad. Lond. t. 46 (1806). 

 Firinga, A. L. de Juss. in Mem. Mus. Par. vi. p. 399 (1820). 

 G. ternifoliaj Schiim. et Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PL p. 147, ex descript. 

 G. medicinalis, Vahl in Schum. Beskr. Guin. PL p. 148 (1827) ex 

 descript. G. lutea, Fresen. in Mus. Senckenb. ii. p. 167 (1837). 

 G. Tinnece, Kotschy et Heuglin in Bot. Zeit. 1865, p. 173, t. 8; 

 Kotschy et Peyr. PL Tinn. p. 34, t. 16, A, B. Cfr. G. triacantha, DC. 

 Prod. iv. p. 382 ; Perr. et Lepr. ex A. Rich, in Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. 

 Par. V. p. 117 (1834). 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Roger! Whitfield! Leprieur and Perroitet 

 Park! SioTTa, Ijeone, Afzelius ! Niger, Nupe, Barter! Guinea, Tfiomiitig Yomba, 

 Barter ! 



ZTortli Central. Bornu, E. Vogcl ! 



XTile Xiand. Abyssinia, Ruppell, Schimper ! Q. Billon and Petit ! Ferret and 

 Galinier Sennsia,T, Kotschy ! Ga.U.&hQ,t, Schweinfurth ! White l^We, Petlierick ! Bongo, 

 Tin7ie and Heuglin Madi (medicinal), Sptke and Grant! Mittu-land, Djur-land, 

 and Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth ! 



Kower Guinea. Angola, Golungo Alto, Wdmtsch ! (fruit in the Kew Museum) ; 

 Congo, Chr. Smith ! 



Soutli Central. Lake Ngami, McCabe ! Chapman and Baines ! ' 



XVXozamb. Z>istr. Lake ^hxrvio,, Meller ! Moramballa and Manganja Hills, 

 Waller ! (fruit food of elephants) ; Zanguebar, Kirk ! 

 Occurs also south of the tropic. 



A very variable plant, but apparently incapable of satisfactory division into 

 species ; none of our forms accord exactly with the typical Cape forms, which have 

 spathulate subpetiolate calyx-lobes, but Cape forms occur with calyces like ours. 



The Indian species, G. guramifera, Linn, f., appears to be different, but is ex- 

 ceedingly close and is diificult to separate by good characters ; the veins of the leaves 

 are, however, opaque. 



A fruit 2^ by 2 in., subterete, rather rough, with about 6 placentas, collected by 

 Dr. Kirk, in grassy plains near Lake Shirwa, may belong to this species ; it grows 

 close to the ground and has a short woody creeping stem, or often scarcely any, being 

 on the surface of the ground ; the leaves are lanceolate. 



A specimen from the Gambia River collected by Whitfield in 1842 has some of 

 the leaves red and others variegated with red veins, and the limb of the corolla is 

 much smaller than usual in the species. 



2. G. Jovis-tonantis, Iliern. A small tree of 5-9 ft. high, 

 puberulons at the extremities. Wood compact, heavy, very strong, 

 durable, yellowish ; trunk 1^2 ft. diameter. Ramifications ternate. 

 Leaves ternate, oval or obovate, obtuse, vredge-shaped at the base, 

 subsessile, thinly coriaceous, shining above, glabrous except little hairy 

 depressions in the axils of the 8-10 pairs of lateral veins beneath, 

 ranging up to 8 by 4^ in. ; stipules short, rounded, connate at the base, 

 intra- petiolar. Flowers 1^3 in. long, aromatic, yellow, trumpet- 

 shaped, decamerous or 6-11-merous, terminal or terminating short 

 lateral branches, sessile or subsessile. Calyx-tube ovoid, rather ex- 



