Paropsia] LXI. PASSIFLORES, 383 
2. PAROPSIA Noronh.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 812. 
1. P. grewioides Welw. ex Masters in Oliv. Fl.Trop. Afr. ii. p. 505, 
Gotuneo ALTo,—An arborescent shrub or a small tree, 8 to 12 ft. 
high, or even exceeding 25 ft., with a broad leafy head and the habit 
of a Grewia ; branches and branchlets erect or erect-patent, slender, 
leafy, the younger ones rufous-tomentose ; leaves evergreen, sub- 
coriaceous, rather rigid and glossy on both surfaces, yellowish-green, 
slightly paler beneath, emerging from two fugacious stipules: calyx 
fuscous- or cinnamon-tomentose, 5-partite ; segments valvate from the 
base to the middle, imbricate towards the apex, covered on the inner 
surface with yellowish-red tomentum; petals from a pale colour turning 
dark yellow, rather fleshy, less densely velvety than the sepals. Between 
the petals and stamens there are placed 10 staminodes, rather long, rigid, 
truncate, fuscous-tomentose, of which the 5 alternate ones are much 
narrower than the rest. Stamens 5, inserted between the staminodes 
and the base of the ovary, flattened at the base and gradually narrowed 
upwards, dark-red ; anthers cordate-sagittate, of a whitish rose colour 
or almost red, 2-celled, introrsely dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 
ovoid, subsessile, densely fuscous-tomentose, 1-celled ; ovules several ; 
placentas 3, parietal ; styles 3, divaricate ; stigmas cordate-obtuse, 
white or whitish, hirsute on the back ; capsule an inch long, peduncu- 
late, axillary, obovoid-clavate when not quite ripe, green outside and 
beset with fuscous rigid readily caducous pilose hairs, surrounded at the 
base with the remains of the calyx and corolla, obtusely umbonate at 
the apex, 1-celled, 3-valved. Seeds horizontal, with a sufficiently long 
funicle, rather large, about 18 to 24, covered with whitish viscid 
membranous aril. In the loftier primitive forests of Serra de Alto 
‘Queta ; fl. beginning of Jan. 1856, sparingly in fr. 17 March 1856, and 
ripe fr. April 1856. No. 873. 
The following specimen in the carpological collection seems to 
belong here :— 
Gotuneo ALTO.—A subarborescent shrub, standing erect ; capsules 
obovoid, rather more than an inch long ; seeds } by 4 in. when dry. 
Cou. Carp. 593. 
3. ADENTIA Forsk. Fl. Aigypt.-Arab. p. 77 (1775). 
Modecca Lam. (1797); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 813. 
1. A. Welwitschii Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xiv. p. 375 (1892). 
Modecca Welwitschii Masters in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 513. 
Pungo AnpDonco.—A climbing glaucous undershrub ; leaves pal- 
mately 5-lobed, with the middle lobe usually trifid; petiole biglandular 
at the apex, furnished at the base on each side with a small lanceolate 
nearly free stipule; flowers axillary, unisexual, apparently strictly 
dicecious, orange-red, nodding, nearly an inch long. Of the male 
flowers calyx exinvolucrate, cyathiform, with a rather long gradually 
widened tube, and limb cleft into 5 broadly lanceolate lobes spreading 
at the time of flowering ; petals 5, lanceolate, greenish, inserted at the 
middle of the calyx-tube, reaching somewhat higher than the base of 
the calyx-lobes, alternating with the calyx-lobes, corona annular, con- 
sisting of short very slender erect fringes ; stamens 5, springing from 
the bottom of the calyx, a little higher than the petals, subexserted ; 
filaments connate into a tube up to the middle, and then free, flattened, 
opposite to the calyx-lobes ; anthers attached to the filaments at their 
