S/jnaptolep'is.'] cxviii. thymel.eace.e (pearson). 247 



Fruit (immature) §-f in. long, \-\ in. thick, covered at the base by the 

 fleshy lower part and crowned by the thickened upper part of the 

 persistent calyx-tube ; exocarp woody or bony. 



Xtlozamb. l>istr. Zjiuzibar ? Kii'lc ! German East Africa : Usaramo, Rukinga, 

 Stuhlmann, 6897 ! 



I have not seen tlie tyi)e of this species. Dr. Gilg has kindly identified Kirk's 

 specimen by comparison with the type. 



4. S. retusa, II. H. W. Pearson. A shrub. Branches terete, with 

 reddish bark, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, elliptic-oblong or 

 obovate, very shortly petioled, retuse or emarginate, sometimes apiculate 

 at the apex, narrowed towards the base, with a thickened revolute 

 margin, glabrous, glaucous above, tawny beneath, with the venation 

 prominent on the lower surface, 1-2J in. long, J-1 in. broad. In- 

 llorescences few-flowered, axillary ; flowers shortly pedicelled ; pedicel 

 smooth. Calyx-tube glabrous, widening slightly and gradually from 

 the base upwards; lobes oblong, obtuse^ glabrous, 1-2 lin. long. Fruit 

 ovoid, I in. long (? mature), crowned by the persistent calyx-tube. 



Upper Guinea. French Guinea: Farmar ! 



5. S. Kirkii, Oliv. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1074. A climbing or 

 spreading shrub. Branches divaricate, terete, with black lenticellate 

 bark. Leaves subcoriaceous, ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, subsessile or 

 very shortly petioled, more or less acute, minutely mucronate, rounded 

 at the base, glabrous, pale beneath, \-\\ in. long, 5-9 lin. broad; 

 lateral nerves numerous, parallel, spreading, obscure ; marginal nerve 

 distinct beneath. Flowers white, axillary, fascicled or solitary, shortly 

 peduncled, (>-8 lin. long; bracteoles minute, scale-like. Calyx-tube 

 very slender below, dilated above ; lobes oblong, spreading or recurved. 

 Corolla forming a short erect glabrous entire or lobed ring at the base 

 of the calyx-lobes. Stamens of the vipper whorl slightly exceeding the 

 corolla-ring ; anthers oblong; filaments slender, exceeding the anthers. 

 Ovary shortly stalked, glabrous, with a I'ing of minute scales at the 

 base; style ;>-4 lin. long. Fruit dry, ovoid, glabrous; pericarp bony, 

 thickened above and below. 



Nile Xiand. British East Africa : Mombasa, Boivin ! 



Mozamb. Sistr. Zanzibar : at the graveyard outside the town, Kirk, 37 ! 

 Last ! 



('). S. macrocarpa, Gilg in Enyl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 0. '2M. A shrub 

 (? climbing) with terete glabrous dark-coloured branches. Leaves 

 opposite, subcoriaceous, ovate, rounded at the base, acute or shortly 

 acuminate at the apex, qviite glabrous, much thickened at the margin. 

 Flowers pedicelled, f;iscicled in the leaf -axils. Fruit oblong, with a 

 woody exocarp, | in. long, o-41in. thick. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usaramo; Vikindo, Stuhlmann, fiOOS. 



1 have not seen a specimen. Dr. Gilg states (Z.c.) that the large size of the fruit 

 separates it from S. Kirkii. 



