616 DICOTYLEDONEÆ. MELOTHRIA . 
Caulis gracillimus, elongatus, ramosus, sulcatus, leviter villosus vel 
glaber. Petiolus gracilis, striatus, sparse pilosus, 1-3 cent. longus. 
Folia membranacea, supra intense viridia, subtus pallidiora interdum 
cinereo-viridia, 3-7 cent. longa, 2-5 cent. lata, apice acuta et apicu- 
lata vel breviter acuminata; sinus basilaris rotundatus, '/,-1 cent. 
profundus. Cirrhi filiformes, elongati, suleati, puberuli vel glabri. 
Peduneulus communis masculus filiformis, striatus, puberulus, 2-4 
cent. longus, apice 5-15-florus; pedicelli patuli, 2-4 mill. longi. Ca- 
lycis tubus late campanulatus, basi rotundatus, */, mill. longus, 2 mill. 
latus; dentes triangulares, */, mill. longi. Corolla brevissime villosa. 
segmentis ovato-triangularibus, acutis, 2 mill. longis. Staminum fila- 
menta gracilia, sparse longeque villosa, 1 !/, mill. longa; anther* 
ovato-oblongæ, dense ciliatæ, 1 mill. longæ. Peduneulus fructiferus 
subfiliformis, 3-8 mill. longus. Fructus brunneus, tenuissime foveo 
latus, 6-8 mill. erassus. Semina pallide cinerea, ovato-oblonga, basi 
subacuta, levia, leviter marginata, 4 mill. longa, 2 '/, mill. lata. 
In Africa australi (Drége ; Burchell n. 445, 3143, 3176, 4393, 6072: 
Harvey n. 575; Lehmann; Bojer; Sonnerat; Bowie n. 74; Bolus 
n. 2317; Cooper n. 2415; Elliot); in distr. Uitenhage (Zeyher n. 244, 
564, 596, 597, 597b, 598, 2114, 2478, 2479; Ecklon et Zeyher n. 14. 
1782, 1783, 1785, 1786, 1787; Verreaux); in distr. Somerset (T. Coo- 
per n. 16, 530, 2406, 2419); in sylvis primitivis Outeniqua (Krauss): 
in Natal (Gueinzius n. 141, 243; Gerrard n. 1194); in Madagasca! 
(Du Petit-Thouars; Commerson); in insul. Commores (Boivin); ad 
Nossi-Bé (Boivin); ad Nossi-Cumba (Boivin n. 21322); in insul. Bor- 
bonica (Commerson); in Abyssinia boreali (Beccari n. 73); prope Bel- 
laka (Schimper n. 412); in Java (Blume; Junghuhn ; Horsfield; Jago" 
n. 623, 1005, 1044; Zollinger n. 1693/, 2923; Kurz; Teysmam: 
Scheffer) ; in Celebes (Teysmann). i 
46. M. obtusilobas tota pubescens ; foliis triangulari-cordat^ 
subangulatis, supra non scabris, margine tenuiter mucronato-dentr 
culatis, basi obtusilobis; pedunculis masculis elongatis, ramosis, fem 
neis brevibus, unifloris; fructu pubescente. — Zehneria obtusilobà 
Sond. in Harv. et Sond. El. Cap. 2, p. 487. i 
Folia 4-5 cent. longa lataque, obtusa vel subacuta, margine molliter 
pilosa, integra vel 3-5-lobata, lobis brevibus brevissime denticulatis- 
Pedunculus communis masculus petiolo multo longior. Calyx CP" 
nulatus. Fructus trispermus, 8 mill. crassus. Semina ovata, tenuiter 
marginata. 
