840 xcvi. veebenacejE. [Siphoncmthus 



anthers thick, dorsifixed ; anther-cells distinct ; ovary obovoid, 

 deeply 4-sulcate, 4-celled ; ovules solitary in each cell ; carpels 

 glabrous, shining ; fruit about ^- in. long ; seeds pendulous. 



PnNGO Andongo. — Id little woods at the base of the gigantic rocks 

 at Cazella, sporadic ; fl. middle of Jan. 1857. No. 6705. At Catete, 

 fl. Feb. 1857 ; also in wooded thickets near Quilange in the prsesidium; 

 fl. middle of April 1857. No. 5688. 



3. S. conglobata. 



Glerodendron conglohatwm, Baker, ms. in Herb. 



A climbing, pale green shrub, spiny in consequence of the base 

 of the petioles at length becoming woody ; branchlets pubescent 

 with pale spreading jointed deciduous hairs; leaves irregularly 

 oval or oblong, more or less cuspidate at the apex, nearly rounded 

 or cordate at the base, entire, membranous, thinly hispid on both 

 faces with adpressed stiff jointed hairs, 2 to 6 in. long by 1 to 3 

 in. broad ; lateral veins about 6 on each side of the midrib, slender ; 

 petiole f to 1 J in. long, densely pubescent with spreading jointed 

 hairs, often bent near the base, the upper part being deciduous 

 and the lower part hardening ; flowers white, densely crowded 

 in hemispherical heads or abbreviated cymes terminating the 

 branches and short lateral shoots ; bracts elliptical, hairy, ciliate, 

 veiny, acute, ^ to -I in. long ; bracteoles narrow ; peduncles short,; 

 pedicels very short; calyx ^ to ^ in. long, deeply 5-lobed; the 

 segments ovate, acute, ciliate, veiny ; corolla-tube slender, thinly 

 pubescent, about an inch long ; the limb about -I in. in diameter ; 

 filaments exserted by ^ to |- in., slender, curved, glabrous ; style 

 slender, glabrous, exserted by nearly an inch. 



PuNGO Andongo. — At the bottom of rather elevated rocks in dense 

 thickets near Caboudo ; fl. middle of Jan. 1857. No. 5629. 



On a specimen in the British Museum set there is a bUobed 

 leaf, probably an accidental occurrence. The species was collected 

 by Oapello, n. 121, between Oaconda and Bihe, where it is called 

 " Tandabale." 



4. S. stricta. 



Glerodendron sl/rictv/m Baker ms. in Herb. 



An undershrub, 1^ to 2 ft. high; rootstock woody, polycephal- 

 ous ; stem erect, simple at least above, more or less pubescent 

 with very short papilliform hairs intermixed with spreading 

 jointed less short hairs, pallid, leafy, straight ; leaves opposite or 

 nearly so, erect-patent, oval or obovate-oblong, pointed or sub- 

 acuminate at the apex, obtusely narrowed or nearly rounded at 

 the tri-nerved base, herbaceous-membranous, green and hispidulous 

 with depressed venation above, somewhat scabrid pale green and 

 with raised venation beneath, 3|^ to 6 in. long by 1^ to 2^ in. 

 broad; lateral nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, con- 

 spicuous and hispid beneath ; tertiary veins clearly marked and 

 hispid beneath ; petiole i to f in. long, hispid with short curving 

 pale hairs ; flowers white, on very short pedicels, crowded many 

 together in terminal subsessile bracteate sub-capitate cymes ; 



