522 Lxxxi. EBBNACE^ (hiern). [Biospijros. 



shortly ferruginous-pubescent, 2 - celled ; cells 1 -seeded; seeds § in. 

 long ; albumen not ruminated. 

 Upper Guinea. Lagos, Barter ! 



8. D. squarrosa, Klotzsch in Peters ^ Mossamh. Bot. i. p. 184. 

 A tree or much-branched shrub ; young shoots delicately hispid, vir- 

 gate ; branches glabrescent, terete. Leaves elliptical or somewhat 

 obovate, thinly coriaceous, rounded at both ends or sometimes narrowed, 

 with scattered patent pubescence or subglabrescent subnitescent 

 above, paler with patent pubescence rufous and denser on the midrib 

 and lateral veins beneath, patent, delicately reticulated, 1^3^ by 

 f-2 in. ; petiole 2^o~4 ^^- 1^°&) pubescent. Male flowers unknown. Female 

 flowers axillary, solitary, drooping, tetramerous ; peduncles recurved, 

 ^^ in. long, patently pubescent ; bracts caducous, at about the middle 

 of the peduncle, lanceolate, -^ in. long. Calyx covered with short ap- 

 pressed tawny hairs on both sides, loosely' hemispherical, ^ in. long, 

 with 4 deep oval or ovate lobes. Corolla 4-partite, openly cup-shaped 

 or rotate, nearly glabrous, but with scattered pale appressed hairs out- 

 side alotig the middle of the lobes ; lobes reflexed, about ^ in. long, 

 obtiieo. Staminodes 0. Ovary glabrous, somewhat 4-sided, -^^ in. 

 high, S-celled, 8-ovuled ; styles 4, glabrous, bifid to about the middle, 

 not persistent. Fruit glabrous, somewhat 4-sidedly globular, about 

 I in. diam ; fruiting calyx with pendent lobes, not accrescent. 



Mozamb. Distr. River Zambesi at Senna (left bank) and Rivoque near Tette, 

 January, local name "Mutshenje tuna tuna," Sechuana dialect, XirA .' Senna, in 

 ' res near water-courses, Peters ! 



9. D. Xioureiriana, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. p. 39 (1837). A 



shrub of 2-8 ft. or a smallj tree ; young parts and inflorescence shortly 

 glandular-pubescent and scattered with pilose hairs. Leaves oblong 

 or obovate-oblong, more or less acuminate at the apex, obtuse, rounded 

 or subcordate at the base, submembranous, weakly pubescent on the 

 veins and ciliate on the margins when young, glabrescent, |-4 by 

 ^2^ in. ; petiole |-| in. Flowers subhermaphrodite or polygamous, 

 drooping, -}- in. long ; cymes axillary, glandular-hairy, 3-many-flowered ; 

 peduncle l-^ in. long, twice the length of the pedicels, bearing ovate 

 cordate bracts at the apex. Calyx gi^een, i iii- ^oug, more or less 

 accrescent ; lobes 4, deltoid, -f^ in. long, valvate in asstivation. Corolla 

 urceolate, white, deeply 4-lobed ; lobes obtuse. Stamens 8, in one 

 row, lanceolate, inserted at the base of the corolla, subsessile, pilose, 

 abortive in female flowers. Ovary shortly tomentose or puoerulous, 

 8-celled or abortive, globose or ovoid-conical ; styles 4 or style 4-lobed. 

 Fruit globose, 1 in. diam., puberulous or glabrate, 4-celled. Seeds 4, 

 ^ in. long ; albumen not ruminated ; embryo ^ in. long ; cotyledons 

 narrow, rather longer than the radicle. Fruiting peduncle strong, 

 ^-J in. long ; pedicels ^in. long. — Hiern, Monogr. Eben. p. 194. Z>. 

 Lotus, Lour. Fl. Cochinch.p. 226 (1790) ; neque Linn, nee Blanco. 



There are two forms of this species, as follows : — 



a. macrocalyx, Hiern in Trimen, Joxirn. Bot., 1875, p. 355. Calyx much accres- 



