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intus quoad petala adnata pubescens; lobi lanceolato-lineares, 3- v. 5-nerves, otnnes 

 (exteriores minus) margine plus minus membranaceo fimbriato-ciliolati. Petala calycem 

 dimidio superantia, tubo 3 — 3,5 mm longe adnata, flava v. aurantiaca , quoad libera 

 10—13 mm longa, spathulato-cimeata , glabra, ligula lineari vix 1,5 mm longa dorso 

 adnata, apice saepe libera. Filamenta tubo imo 0,2 — 0,5 mm longe adnata, glabra 

 v. supra basin parce pilosa, 3 longiora 9 — 10 mr«, 2 breviora 7 — 7,5 mm longa; antherae 

 juniores rectangulari-ellipticae 1,5 — 1,8 longae, 0,5 — 0,6 mm latae, apice et basi aequa- 

 liter emarginatae , in '/« a lt- affixae. Styli aequilongi 6 — 7 mm longi , antheras 

 fil. long, aequantes. Frnctus 1,3 — 1,5 mm crassi, 3 — 5 mm longe rostrati, 12 — 20- 

 spermi. Semina obovata v. obovato-oblonga subrecta, flava v. demum nigrescentia, 

 2,5— 3 mm longa, 1,2 — 1,4 mm crassa, chalaza prominente concavinscula, basi truncata 

 hilo obsolete apiculata. 



Habitat var. n. ad oram Guineae: Isert; in Senegambia: Thonning; ad /luv. Kowara: 

 Vogel n. 188, prope Nupe : Barter n. 1552. — Var. ß. in NM territorio , in finibus 

 Djur ad majorem, Seriba Ghattas : Schweinfurth n. 2004 ; locis petrosis graminosis 

 prope Matamma in territorio Gallabat: Schweinfurth n. 1700. — Flor, et fruct. m. 

 Maio—Sept. 



II. Streptopetalum Höchst 



Streptopetalum Höchst, in Flora Ratisb. XXIV. II (ct. 1841) p. 665. 



— Worms kioldia ex parte v. spec. Rieh. Tent. Flor. Abyss. I, 299; 



Benih. et Hook. Gen. Plant. 7, 807; Maxw. Mast, in Oliv. Flor. trop. 



Afr. IL 501. — Turner a ex parte Baill. Hist. Plant. IV, 321. 



Sepala usque supra medium in tubura cylindraceum, superne paullo 

 ampliatum , supra insertionem filamentorum callis linearibus 1 — 2 mm 

 longis incrassatum, ad commissuras enervem coalita, nervis loborum 

 vicinorum lateralibus sub fauce non confluentibus , sed in tubum des- 

 cendentibus. Petala fauci calycis inserta, ad basin euneata v. unguiculata, 

 basi nuda. Filamenta perigyna, tubo calycis facie tota 2 — 4 mm 

 longe adnata, linearia, aequilata, inter sese aequilonga v. inaequilonga; 

 antberae apice et basi aequaliter subemarginatae. Styli recti, apice 

 brevissime v. obsolete multipartiti v. lacero-lobulati. Fructus ovatus 

 usque oblongus 2— 3 1 / 2 -plo longior quam crassior, ab apice ad basin 

 dehiscens, dorso obsolete reticulato-impressus. Semina irregulariter 

 pluriseriata curvata, elevatim reticulato-striata, areolis reticuli biporosis, 

 in hilum subito constrieta, arillo unilaterali, longitudine semen aequante 

 v. breviore, margine integro v. sublacero. 



Herbae annuae v. perennes, pube brevi tenui et setis initio secer- 

 nentibus , posterius indurescentibus vestitae. Stipulae nullae. Folia 

 breviter petiolata v. subsessilia, lanceolata v. anguste lanceolata, glandulis 

 basalibus carentia. Inflorescentiae axillares plurißorae seeundo-racemi- 

 formes, peduneulis liberis, prophyllis binis evolutis, floribus erectis. Petala 

 lutea v. flava. — Species 2 Africae orientalis incolae. 



Obs. „Nomen derivatum a petalis aestivatione contortis" Höchst. 1. c, 



