314 CI. VERBENACE^ (baker). [^CUrodendron. 



Calyx pentagonal ; lobes lanceolate. Corolla-tube three times the length 

 of the calyx ; lobes elliptic. 

 irile ]Land. Nubiw, Visiani. 



11. HOLMSKIOLDIA, Retz. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. 



1156. 



Calyx spreading widely from a short urceolate base, very accrescent, 

 obscurely 5-lobed. Corolla-tube incurved, dilated upwards; limb 

 oblique, patent with 5 unequal short lobes. Stamens 4, didynamous, 

 affixed low down in the corolla-tube, exserted ; anthers ovoid, with 

 parallel cells. Ovary entire or obscurely 4-lobed, 4-celled ; ovules 

 solitary, attached laterally. Style long, exserted, bifid at the apex. 

 Drupe enclosed in the urceolate base of the persistent calyx-tube, 

 truncate or lobed ; mesocarp thin; endocarp of 1-4 bony pyrenes. 

 Seed oblong, exalbuminous ; testa membranous. — Erect shrubs with 

 opposite entire or toothed leaves. Cymes axillary or terminal ; bracts 

 small, deciduous. Fruit-calyx sometimes brightly coloured. 

 One other species in India, and a doubtful one in Madagascar. 

 Branches nimrmed , . . . . . . 1. S. tettensis. 



Branches spinous. 



Leaves narrowed to the base . . . . 2. H. spinescens. 



Leaves rounded at the base . . . . . 3. S. mucronata. 



1. H. tettensis, Vatke m Linncea, xliii, 586. An erect shrub, with 

 unarmed pubescent branchlets. Leaves obovate, 1-1^ in. long, entire 

 or furnished with 1-2 large teeth on each side, cuneate at the base, 

 thinly pubescent above, densely pubescent beneath ; petiole short. 

 Cymes few-flowered, terminal on the branchlets ; pedicels long, 

 pubescent. Calyx pubescent, finally rigidly coriaceous, 1 in. diam. 

 Corolla pubescent externally ; tube short ; limb sub-bilabiate. Stamens 

 much exserted. Fruit densely villous, deeply 4-lobed at the apex. 

 — Cydonema tettense, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 261. 



Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : litte, Peters ; between Lupata and 

 Tete, Kirk ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; by the River Shire, Kirk ! 



2. H. spinescenSy Vatke in Linncea, xliii. 536. A much-branched 

 erect shrub ; branches armed with woody subulate spines ; young 

 branchlets densely pubescent. Leaves oblong-cuneate, acute, entire, 

 1-1 J in. long, slightly pubescent above, densely pubescent beneath ; petiole 

 very short. Cymes lax, few-flowered, terminal on the branchlets. 

 Calyx J-J in. diam. in the flowering stage, finally an inch broad, 

 rigidly coriaceous. Corolla J in. long, densely pubescent externally. 

 Stamens reaching to the tip of the corolla-lobes. Fruit densely villous, 

 deeply 4-lobed at the apex. — Cydonema apinescens, Klotzsch in Peters, 

 Reise Mossamb. Bot. 262. 



Mozaxnb. Blat. Portuguese East Africa : in the lower part of the Zambesi 

 valley, near Tete, Peters, Kirk! 



