652 DICOTYLEDONE A. CORALLOCARPUS. 
bus femineis breviter pedunculatis, sæpius solitariis; fructu oblongo, 
apice rotundato; seminibus fusculis, tenuiter marginatis, tenuissime | 
rugulosis. — Rhynchocarpa Welwitschii Naud.! in Ann. sc. nat. ser. 4, 
v. 18, p. 198, tab. 10. 
Herba glaucescens, radice juvenuli fibrosa, mox circa ejus colum tt 
caulis basim infimam fusiformi- vel napiformi-incrassata perennans. 
Caulis gracilis, succulentus, glaberrimus, inferne subangulatus, sim- 
plex demum parce et distanter ramosus, late scandens, circiter 2-me 
tralis, ramis carnosulis, rigidiusculis, fragilibus, subteretibus, rami- - 
lisque flagelliformibus ad nodos geniculatis, glaucissimis, fructiferi 
non raro aphyllo et dependentibus. Petiolus gracilis, tenuiter stria- 
tus, sparse punctato-asperus, 2-4 cent. longus. Folia ambitu ovata 
supra pallide viridia, subtus cinerea, 4-7 cent. longa et fere totidem 
lata; lobis divergentibus, apice subacutis obtusisve, intermedio cate 
ris paulo majore, ad basim valde constricto. Cirrhi filiformes, elongati 
glabri, tenuiter striati. Pedunculus communis masculus glaber, tenti- 
ter striatus, 1*/,-5 cent. longus, apice capitato-3-8-florus, ad bus 
incrassatus; pedicelli filiformes, erecto-patuli, subglabri, 1-2 mill. 
longi. Calycis tubus campanulatus, subglaber, basi acutus, 1 uil. 
longus, apice */, mill. latus; dentes ovato-lanceolati, patuli, a mil. 
longi. Corolla pallide flavescens, segmentis late ovatis, erecto-patulis 
trinerviis, obtusiusculis, margine tenuissime ciliatis, 1 mill. lon^ 
Flores feminei nunc solitarii et subsessiles, nunc 2-3 gregati, um 
alterove tunc quidpiam longius pedicellato, pedicello crassiuscul 
firmo et erecto. Ovarium oblongo-ovoideum, 2-, rarius 3-, rarissim 
. Hloculare; stylus firmulus, sursum modice incrassatus, stigmati 
2-3-lobulato. Fructus glaber, lævis, intense ruber vel coccineus, mol- 
liter carnosus, 5-8-spermus, 17-20 mill. longus, 9-12 mill. Crus 
Semina obovoidea, tumida, basi non alata truncata, 3 '/, mill. longà. 
2 mill. lata, 1'/, mill. crassa. 
In dumetis arenosis maritimis distric. Loanda, circa urbem ine 
et prope Cacuaco; in district. Golungo Alto, alit. 300-800 metr. (V : 
witsch n. 799 in herb. Brit. Mus.); prope Elephants’ Bay (Curro! 
herb. Kew.). : 
5, subintegrifolia. Folia triangulari-subsagittata, Sep 
lobata. 
In Africa australi extratropica (Burchell n. 2031 in herb. Kew.). 
us Jevite? 
B. Semina globosa vel subglobosa, ad basim non attenuata. Spec. ie 
8. €. erostris (Hook. f.! in Oliv. Fl. trop. Afr. 2, P- 567); f 
