j{48 cxviii. THYMEL.EACE.c (pearson). [^Craterosiphon. 



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8. CRATEROSIPHON, Engl. & Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 2 



Flowers hermaphrodite, 5-merous. Calyx-tube coloured, thickened, 

 very narrowly funnel-shaped, glabrous, somewhat dilated above the 

 middle, continuous. Petals 0. Stamens 10, inserted below the middle 

 of the calyx-tube, deeply included ; filaments of the whorl opposite the 

 calyx-lobes, twice as long as the anthers, those of the whorl alter- 

 nating with the calyx-lobes, shorter than tlie anthers. Ovary sessile, 

 1-celled ; style short, apical ; disc short, cup-shaped, membranous. — 

 Climbing shrub with opposite, subopposite or alternate, stiff leathery, 

 parallel-nerved, oval leaves. Flowers very long, in 3-5-flowered axillary 

 clusters, subsessile, greenish-yellow, with numerous small bracteoles 

 at the base. 



Specie* 2, endemic. 



Leaves narrovyed at the base . . . . . , 1. C. scandens. 

 Leaves i-ounded at the base 2. C. Soyauxii. 



1. C. scandens, Enyl. d- Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 275. A 

 climbing shrub, perfectly glabrous. Leaves opposite, subopposite or 

 alternate, in 2 rows, shortly petioled, distant, oblong-oval, entire, 

 narrowed at the base, long-acuminate and obtuse at the apex, sub- 

 coriaceous, 2|-3J in. long, IJ-IJ in. broad, with spreading, parallel, 

 distinct nerves. Flowers " greenish-yellow/' in fascicles of 3-6 in the 

 leaf-axils, subsessile, with minute bracteoles at the base. Calyx-tube 

 glabrous, lj-1^ in. long; lobes oblong, obtuse, minutely puberulous on 

 the margin, otherwise glabrous, apparently erect during flowering, Jin. 

 long. Stamens inserted immediately below the middle of the tube. 

 Ovary glabrous ; hypogynous disc short, deeply lobed^ bearing a few 

 short erect hairs. Fruit not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria : Old Calabar, Thomson, 75 ! Cameroons : 

 liuea, Freuss^ 878 ! Bipinde, Zenker, 2132 ! 



2. C. Soyauxii, H. II. W. Pearson. Glabrous. Leaves opposite, 

 shortly petioled, ovate or elliptic, entire, rounded at the base, long- 

 acaminate and obtuse, with distinct spreading parallel nerves, when 

 dry glaucous above, brown beneath, 2|-2| in. long, IJ-lJ in. broad. 

 Flowers not seen. Fruit ovoid, rugose, 1-1 J in. long, | in. broad ; 

 endocarp bony. Seed not seen. 



Xiower Guinea. Gaboon : Munda ; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 263 ! 



9. PEDDIEA, Harv. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 199. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-5-merous. Calyx-tube cylindric, con- 

 tinuous, deciduous. Calyx-lobes short, erect, spreading or retiexed. 

 Petals 0. Stamens 8-10, in 2 whorls, inserted in the calyx-tube ; 

 filaments very short ; anthers linear or oblong, not exserted. Ovary 



