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

 (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-cuneata , 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 mm, 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 alt. affixae. Styli aequilongi .6—7 mm longi , antheras 

 fil. long, aequantes. Fructus 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 wm erassa, chalaza prominente concaviuscula, basi truncata 

 hilo obsolete apiculata. 



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

 Vogel n. 188, prcpe Nupe: Barier 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 (a. 1841) p. 665. 

 — Worms kioldia ex parte v. spec. Rieh. Tent. Flor. Abyss. 7, 299; 

 Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. 7, 807 ; Maxie. Mast, in Oliv. Flor. trop. 

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



Sepala usque supra medium in tubum cylindraceum, superne paullo 

 ampliatum , supra iusertionern filamentorum callis linearibus 1 — 2 mm 

 lougis incrassatum, ad commissuras enervem coalita, nervis loborum 

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

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

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

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

 antherae apice et basi aequaliter subemarginatae. Styli recti, apice 

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

 usque oblongus 2 — ß^^-plo longior quam crassi or, ab apice ad basin 

 dehiscens, dorso obsolete reticulato-impressus. Semina irregulariter 

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

 in hilum subito constricta, 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, ylandulis 

 basalibus carentia. Inflorescentiae axillares pluriflorae secundo-racemi- 

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

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



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



