570 xcvu. pedaline^e (stapf). [Sigmaiosiphon] 



cell. Fruit unknown. — Shrubs with a short trunk and long spinous 

 branches. Foliage leaves in fascicles on arrested branchlets in the 

 axils of the spines, deciduous. Flowers large yellow, in terminal 

 racemes. 



Species 1, endemic. 



1. S. Gurichii, Engl. I.e. 151. A shrub, 9-12 ft. high; spines 

 about 5 lin. long ; flowering branches slender. Leaves obovate-cuneate, 

 5 lin. long, 1^—2 lin. broad, deciduous before flowering. Pedicels 8 lin. 

 long, greyish-tomentose. Calyx greyish-tomentose ; segments triangular. 

 Corolla greyish-tomentose at first, then glabrescent, yellow ; tube 1\ 

 in. long, 2 lin. wide at the middle, 2J-3 lin. wide near the base and the 

 mouth ; lobes 7-8 lin. long, 5 lin. broad. Anthers exserted, 2 lin. long. 

 —Stapf in Engl. & Prantl, Natiirl. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 262. 



Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa; Southern Ivaoko, at Dawib 

 Kurub and between Franzfontein and Cliorichas, Giirich, 16. 



