THYMELMAGE^. 127 



at obtuse apex, densely villoso-setose ; ovule 1, descending. Fruit 

 . . . ? — Shrubs ; leaves alternate, subsessile or very shortly petiolate, 

 unequal or subequal at base, entire or widely crenulate, penni- 

 nerved ; nerves transverse or oblique ; veins netlike or lineate ; 

 flowers in long-pedunculate spikes, erect or cernuous, lateral or 

 supra-alate, clavate at apex, elongate or shortly subcapitate, articu- 

 late, deciduous. {Trop. east. Africa and islands}) 



10. Dicranolepis Pl.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite, 5-merous ; tube 

 of hypocrateriform calyx elongate, sometimes very slender; limb 

 very imbricate, open. Squamules 10,^ inserted in throat, alternating 

 in pairs with, and equal to or longer than, the lobes of the calyx, 

 widely petaloid. Stamens 10 inserted in throat, 2 -seriate or 

 spuriously 1 -seriate; filaments free short; anthers introrse ; the 

 longer exserted. Germen sessile or shortly stipitate, stipate at base 

 to hypogynous thinly membranous, unequally crenate or dentate, 

 either regular, or sometimes more evolved disk ; ovule 1, descending ; 

 style subterminal or lateral long, enclosed, at apex stigmatose 

 clavate, capitate or orbicular. Fruit subdrupaceous (?) juiceless sub- 

 globular, enclosed by persistent base of calyx, seed subglobular, 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo thick hemispherical ; radicle 

 short superior. — Glabrous or oftener pilose shrubs ; leaves 

 alternate, 2-stichous, unequally oval or trapezoid; flowers sub- 

 terminal or generally axillary, solitary or few glomerulate. {Trop. 

 west Africa^) 



11. Gnidia L.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; tube of infundibuliform 

 or subhypocrateriform (coloured) calyx cylindrical, oftener circum- 

 scissus above the germen, deciduous; lobes 5 {Lasiosiphon^) or 

 oftener 4, imbricate, equally patent. Squamules 4, 5, petaloid, 

 inserted in throat, alternating with and shorter than the lobes, 

 either simple or 2-fid or partite (more rarely very small and 

 scarcely perceptible). Stamens 8-12, inserted in 2-plicate series at 



1 Spec. 2. H. Bn. he. cit. ed. 2, Idi.—Nectandra Berg. PI. Cap. 131.— 



'2 Hook. Icon, yiii.t. 79S; Niger, i96,t. i9. — Thymelina Hoffmsg. Verz. i. 198 (part.). — 



Meissn. Prodr. 599. Endl. Gen. n. 2101. — Canalia Schm. N. Pflanz. 



^ Or 5, 2-fid, or 2-partite. Prag. (1793), n. 5. — Epichroxantha Eckl. et 



* Spec, about 4. H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. 302. Zeyh. — Calysericos (part.) Eckl. et Zeyh. (ex 



— ^Walp. Ann. i. 588. Meissn.). 



5 Syst. ed. 2, 22 ; Gen. n. 487.—/. Gen. 77.— ^ Fresen. Flora (1838), 602.— Done. Jacquem. 



Lamk. Diet. ii. 764 ; III. t. 291.— Endl. Gen. n. Toy. Bat. 147.— Endl. Gen. n. 2106 ^.—Enkleia 



2100, 2102 (Suppl. iv. p. ii. 63).— Meissn. Grif. Calc. Journ. Nat. Sist. iv. n. 13.— Jack, 



X*f»««a, xiv. 423 ; Prodr. dSO.—Dessenia AoAiis. Cat. PI. Sort. Calc. (1843), 138.— ? Pnlcea 



F«m. des PI. ii. 2S5.—Struthia Roy. L. Gen. Mia. Fl. Ind,'Bat. Suppl. i. 355. 



