Siphonanthus] xcvi. vkkhknack.k. Si:j 



GoLUNCKi Ai.To. — A low shrub, occasionally cliinl)in>^ with long 

 sarmentose branches : calyx coroUiiio, wliite, persistent ; corolla from 

 greenish to whitish, deciduous : l)orries black, shining. In secondary 

 woods near ('alnlo and Muria : H. and unripe fruit, Sept. lS.'i4. No. 

 5630. At (,)uibMU> : 11. Aug. IH.ji]. No. 5659. lull. No. 5680. 



'J. S. formicarum. 



Clerodendronformicarum Giirkein Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 179 

 <22 Dec. 1893). C.triplinerveV.o\iiim Bui. See. Brot.xi. p. 87 (1894). 



GoLVNcio Ai.To. — In dry hilly places on the lower ranges of the 

 Queta mountains : fl. and fr. Nov. 18r)4. No. 5622. A shrublet, some- 

 times 1 to 2 ft. high and standing erect, sometimes climbing to the 

 heiglit of 4 to h ft. ; leaves ternate : tlowers white. In sunny thickets 

 among the Queta mountains ; H. June and July 18511. No. 5661. 



10. S. costulata Hiern, sp. n. 



Glabrato on most parts, except the miimtely puberulous inflo- 

 rescence ; branches -woody, rather slender, subterete or slightly 

 compressed at the nodes, lentict41ate, leafy towards the extremities ; 

 leaves opposite, spreading, oval, subelliptical or somewhat obovate, 

 obtusely acuminate and ajjiculate at the apex, rounded or obtusely 

 or obliquely narrowed at the base, entire or luidulate-subrepand 

 on the very narrowly revolute margin, sometimes unequally 3- 

 nerved at the base, thinly coriaceous, rather glossy, somewhat 

 paler beneath, 2 to 4 in. long by | to 2^ in. broad ; veins and 

 reticulation slender ; petioles g- to f in. long, transversely rugose, 

 the older ones usually articulate and bent at a right angle near 

 the base, the lower part thicker and often persistent, the upper 

 part (or the leaf-base) often bent again at the apex ; inflorescence 

 paniculate, obtusely pyramidal, many-flowered, bracteate, about 

 2 to 3 in. in diameter, 4 to G in. long, terminating the branches 

 or branchlets ; the primary divisions patent, rather lax, opposite, 

 slender ; the ultimate pedicels i to i in. long, slender, sometimes 

 braeteolato ; bracts and bracteoles narrow ; flowers pentamerous ; 

 calyx campanulate-oblong, delicately ribbed longitudinally, shortly 

 lobed, about 1 in. long ; the lobes rather narrowly deltoid, acute, 

 nearly equal ; corolla tubular ; the tube i to § in. long, rather 

 slender ; the limb spreading or reflected, sub-bilabiate, deeply 

 lobed ; the lobes roundly obovate, |- to ^ in. long ; the throat 

 funnel-shaped; stamens 4, didynamous, exserted ; the filaments 

 inserted at the bottom of the corolla-throat, J and f in. long ; 

 anthers about .,|,- in. long ; style about equalling or slightly 

 exceeding the longer filaments, bifid at the top. 



Prxoo Andongo.— In fl. Nos. 5679, 5682. 



This species has the aspect of .S. {ChrodoKh-nn) linchhohii [Giirke 

 in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 17(5 (1S',(3)], but the flowers and leaves 

 are smaller and the net-veins on the lower surface of the leaves more 

 conspicuous ; it differs from N. (C.) Pnits^ii (Giirke, /.<■., p. 175) by the 

 shape of the calyx, etc. 



11. S. botryodes Hiern, sp. n. 



A sarmentose, glabrous shrub ; branches terete, smooth ; leaves 

 opposite subopposite or alternate, elliptical or oblong, obliquely 



