238 cxviii. THYMELiEACE^ (pearson). [Enghrodophne. 



1. E. leiosiphon, Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 274. A much- 

 branched shrub ?>-b ft. high {Hildehrandt) ; branches slender, glabrous. 

 Leaves opposite, ovate or elliptic, acute or subacute, rounded or trun- 

 cate, rarely subcordate, at the base, membranous, distinctly nerved, 

 glabrous, shortly petioled, h-\h in. long, J-j in. broad. Flowers 

 white {Scott- Elliot), in ebracteate fa><cicles of 4-8, terminal on short 

 leafy axillary branches, shortly pedicelled, 4-merous. Calyx-tube with 

 a few long silky hairs on the outside, otherwise glabrous, about \ in. 

 long ; lobes oblong, obtuse, about 2 J lin. long. Petal-segments 8, 

 triangular- oblong, with one or two irregular serrations, glabrous, 

 glandular, more than \ as long as the calyx-lobes. Ovary shortly 

 stalked, densely hirsute with long erect white hairs. — Engl. Pfi. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 284. 



irile Ziand. British East Africa : Nairobi, Linton, 24 ! Ukamba, 4000 ft., 

 Scott- Elliot, 2356! Hildehrandt, 27511 crater south of Lake Naivasha, 7000- 

 8000 ft., Thomson ! Kikuyu, and on the road to Eldama Ravine, 4000-6000 ft., 

 Whyte ! 



Also in South Africa. 



E. leiosiphon appears to be identical with Meisner's Onidia subcordata (Linnaea, 

 xiv. 430; DC. Prodr. xiv. 586), of which I have not seen an authentic specimen. 



6. DICRANOLEPIS, Planch.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 198. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, o-merous. Calyx-tube cvlindric, usually 

 elongate, dilated at the bsise, continuous; lobes spreading or reflexed. 

 Petiils opposite the calyx-lobes, V)ipartite or divided to the base ; seg- 

 ments entire or irregularly incised. Stamens 10, in 2 approximated 

 whorls in the throat of the calyx-tube, more or less exserted ; filaments 

 slender; anthers with broad connective. Ovary stalked, 1-celled, 

 1-ovuled, glabrous or hairy; hypogynous disc cup-shaped, thin, fleshy 

 or leathery, closely surrounding the stalk and lower portion of the 

 ovary; style slender; stigma clavate, capitate or discoid. Fruit 

 spherical or somewhat elongate, closely invested by the persistent,, more 

 or less flesliy base of the calyx- tube ; pericarp thick, woody or coria- 

 ceous. Seed exalburainous ; testa thin, more or less fused with the peri- 

 carp ; cotyledons large. — Small trees or shrubs with alternate, usually 

 oblong, caudate-acuminate leaves. Flowers solitary or in pairs in the 

 leaf-axils. 



Species about 25, in Tropical and South Africa. 



The disc a])pears to be always entire in the ;^oung flower. As the ovary swells it 

 splits into an ii regular number of lobes or segments. 



Stiprma capitate or discoid. 



Petals distinctly lonjjer than the calyx-lobes. 

 Petal -segments incised. 



Flowers 2 in. long . . . . . 1. D. pulcherrima. 



Flowers less than 1 in. long . . . 2. Z>. thomensis. 



Petal -segments entire . . . . . 3. i>. grandifiora. 



