Dicranolepis.] cxviii. thymel^eace^ (pearson). 245 



20. D. cerasifera, Gilg m Ungl. Jahrh. xix. 272. A shrub with 

 slender branches, puberulous when young, later glabrous. Leaves very- 

 variable, ovate, oblong or oblong -lanceolate, more or less oblique, long- 

 acuminate, subacute, shortly petioled, glabrous above, with few or many 

 adpressed hairs beneath, 1-2 J in. long, J-1 in. broad. Flowers (not 

 seen) in pairs or rarely solitary, pubescent. Drupe smaller than a 

 cherry, in colour resembling a pomegranate (Schwei7ifurth). 



xrile land. Niamniam : by the Diamvonu stream, Schweinfurth, 3136 ! 



21. D, Thonneri, De Wild. <& Dur. in CompteS'rendus Soc. Bot 

 Belg. xxxviii. 114. Shrub about 16 ft. high, with branches pubescent, 

 later glabrous. Leaves shortly petioled, oblong or ovate-oblong, oblique, 

 long-acuminate, very acute, glabrous above, paler beneath, pilose with 

 long hairs, especially on the nerves, 1-2J in. long, J-J in. broad ; vena- 

 tion very prominent beneath ; petiole bearing a few long hairs, about 

 J lin. long. Elowersin fascicles of 1-8, subsessile. Calyx-tube terete, 

 bearing white hairs, \-\ in. long; lobes ovate-oblong, pilose, about \ in. 

 long. Petals white, bifid to the base ; lobes entire, ovate, acute, about 

 J as long as the calyx-lobes. 



South Central. Congo Region : Boyangi, Sept. 5, 1896, Thonner, 



7. SYNAPTOLEPIS, Oliver. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, 5-merous. Calyx-tube cylindric, somewhat 

 dilated around the ovary and near the throat, not articulated. Calyx- 

 lobes spreading. Corolla forming a short erect entiie or obscurely 

 5-lobed ring at the base of the calyx-lobes. Stamens 10, inserted in 2 

 separated whorls at the upper end of the calyx-tube, those of the upper 

 (outer) whorl being opposite the calyx-lobes and not or only slightly 

 exceeding the corolla-ring. Ovary shortly stalked, surrounded at the 

 base by very minute or obsolete laciniate hypogynous scales ; style long 

 and slender, bearing at the apex a cylindric or capitate stigma. Fruit 

 dry, oblong-ovate, enclosed in the persistent more or less fleshy base of 

 the calyx-tube. Albumen 0; embryo with fleshy cotyledons. — Erector 

 climbing shrubs with alternate, membranous or subcoriaceous leaves. 

 Flowers in terminal dense cymes or solitary or fascicled in the leaf -axils, 

 sessile or shortly stalked. 



Species 5, in Tropical and South Africa. 



Calyx-tube gradually widening towards the top. 

 lullorescence terminal. 



Leaves ovate . . , . . . . 1. ^S". longijiora. 



Leaves not ovate , . , . , . 2. (S. alternifolia. 



Inflorescence axillary. 

 Leaves ovate. 



Inflorescence branched . . . , . 3. «S. pachyphyUa. 



Flowers in fascicles . . , , . 6. »S. macrocarpu. 



Leaves not ovate , . , , . . 4. /S. retusa. 



