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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. 2 — Flowers hermaphrodite, 5-merous ; tube 

 of hypocrateriform calyx elongate, sometimes very slender; limb 

 very imbricate, open. Squamules 10, 3 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. 5 — Flowers hermaphrodite ; tube of infundibuliform 

 or subhypocrateriform (coloured) calyx cylindrical, oftener circum- 

 scissus above the germen, deciduous; lobes 5 (Lasiosiphon G ) 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. B>r. Inc. cit. ed. 2, 154. — Nectandra Berg. PI. Cap. 131. — 



2 Hook. Icon. viii. t. 798; Niger, 496, t. 49. — Thymelina Hoffmsg. Verz. i. 198 (part.). — 

 Meissn. Prodr. 599. E.sdl. Gen. n. 2101. — Canalia Schm. N. Pflans. 



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



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

 — Walp. Ann. i. 588. Meissn.). 



5 St/st. ed. 2, 22; Gen. n. 487.—/. Gen. 77.— 6 Fresen. Flora (1838), 602.— Dcne. Jaequem. 

 Lamk. Diet. ii. 764; Ill.t. 291.— Endl. Gen. n. Voij. Bot. 147.— Endl. Gen. n. 2106 3 .— Enkleia 

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

 Linnœa, xiv. 423 ; Prodr. 580.— Dessenia An ans. Cat. PI. Hort. Cale. (1843), 138i— P Pùlœa 

 Fam. .des PI. ii. 285.— Struthia Roy. L. Gen. Mw. Fl. Ind.-Bat. Suppl. i. 355. 



