THYMEL^AOM^. 127 



at obtuse apex, densely villoso-setose ; ovule 1, descending. Fruit 

 . . . ? — Shrubs; leaves alternate, sabsessile or very shortly petiolate, 

 unequal or subequal at base, entire or widely crenulate, penni- 

 nerved ; nerves transverse or oblique ; veins netlike or lineate ; 

 flowers in long-pedunculate spikes, erect or cernuous, lateral or 

 supra-alate, clavate at apex, elongate or shortly subcapitate, articu- 

 late, deciduous. {Trop. east. Africa and islands}) 



10. Dicranolepis Pl.'^ — Flowers hermaphrodite, 5-merous ; tube 

 of hypocrateriform calyx elongate, sometimes very slender; limb 

 very imbricate, open. Squamules 10,^ inserted in throat, alternating 

 in pairs with, and equal to or longer than, the lobes of the calyx, 

 widely petaloid. Stamens 10 inserted in throat, 2 -seriate or 

 spuriously 1 -seriate; filaments free short j anthers introrse ; the 

 longer exserted. Germen sessile or shortly stipitate, stipate at base 

 to hypogynous thinly membranous, unequally crenate or dentate, 

 either regular, or sometimes more evolved disk ; ovule 1, descending ; 

 style subterminal or lateral long, enclosed, at apex stigmatose 

 clavate, capitate or orbicular. Fruit subdrupaceous (?) juiceless sub- 

 globular, enclosed by persistent base of calyx, seed subglobular, 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo thick hemispherical ; radicle 

 short superior. — Glabrous or oftener pilose shrubs ; leaves 

 alternate, 2-stichous, unequally oval or trapezoid; flowers sub- 

 terminal or generally axillary, solitary or few glomerulate. {Trop. 

 west. Africa.^) 



11. Gnidia L.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; tube of infundibuliform 

 or subhypocrateriform (coloured) calyx cylindrical, oftener circum- 

 scissus above the germen, deciduous; lobes 5 (Lasiosiphon^) or 

 oftener 4, imbricate, equally patent. Squamules 4, 5, petaloid, 

 inserted in throat, alternating with and shorter than the lobes, 

 either simple or 2-fid or partite (more rarely very small and 

 scarcely perceptible). Stamens 8-12, inserted in 2-plicate series at 



1 Spec. 2. E.Bth. loc. cit. ed. 2, 15i.—Mctandra Bsiia. PI. Cap. 131.— 



2 Sooh Icon. viii. t. 798 ; Nisrer, 496, t. 49.— Thymelina Hoffmsg. Verz. i. 198 (part.).- 

 Meissn. Frodr. 599. Endl. Gen. n. iWl.—Canalia Sohm. N. Ffims. 



3 Or 6, 2-fld, or 2.partite. Frag. (1793), n. 5. — Upwhroxantha Bokl. et 

 * Spec, about 4. H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. 302. ZsY-s.—Calyserioos (part.) Eckl. et Zeyh. (ex 



— "Walp. Ann. i. 588. Meissn.). 



3 Syst. ed. 2, 22 ; Gen. n. 487.—/. Oen. 77.— » Fbesen. Flora (1838), 602.— Done. Jacquem. 



Lamk. Diet. ii. 764; Itt.t. 291.— Endl. Oen. n- Voy. Bot. 147.— Endl. Gen. n. iW&K—Mnhhia 



2100, ' 2102 (Suppl. iv. p. ii. 63).— Meissn. Grip. CaU. Journ. Nat. Sist. iv. n. 13.— Jack, 



Zinnaa,^y. 423; Frodr. dSO.—DesseniaADASB. Cat. Fl. Sort. Cak. (1843), 138.— ? Fsilaa 



Fam. des A ii. 2S5.—Strut/iia KoY. X. Gen. MiQ. Fl. Ind.'Bat. Suppl. i. 35.5. 



