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included ; anthers very long and narrow. Ovary 1-celled, with 2 parietal 
placentas and numerous ovules ; style long, included, fusiform, entire. 
Fruit large, baccate, with pulpy placentas and numerous seeds filling up 
the cavity. — Erect shrubs, with large solitary axillary flowers. Distrib. 
Tropics of the Old World. Species 60. 
1. G. Annse, Wright in Trans. Roy. Irish Acad. xxiv. 575. t. 28. An 
erect glabrous shrub, 10-12 feet high, with slender terete branchlets. 
Leaves short-petioled, oblong-lanceolate, acute, cuneate at the base, 3-4 
in. long, membranous, shining, turning black in drying ; stipules minute, 
deciduous. Flowers solitary, subsessile in the axils of the leaves. 
Calyx naked, narrowly funnel-shaped, f-f in. long ; teeth small, linear, 
from a broad base. Corolla 1\ in. long, whitish, spotted with red ; tube 
broadly dilated directly after leaving the calyx ; lobes much shorter than 
the tube, spreading. Berry smooth, globose, 3 in. long, cuspidate, the 
base turbinate. 
Seychelles, in the woods of Mahe and Praslin, lie Aride and lie Felicite. 
Wright ! Horne ! A variety from Zambesi Land, Meller. Galabassier. 
# Dentella repens , Forst. ; DC. Prod. iv. 418, widely-spread in 
Tropical Asia and Polynesia, is included in Dupont’s Mauritian cata- 
logue, but I have not seen specimens. It is a very slender much- 
branched trailing perennial herb, with small oblanceolate membranous 
nearly sessile leaves, solitary subsessile axillary flowers, an oblong calyx- 
tube with lanceolate teeth, a funnel-shaped white corolla -i in. long, 
and a many-seeded globose dry indehiscent fruit ^ in. thick covered 
with hooked bristles. 
9. GUETTAKDA, Linn. 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx coriaceous, campanulate; mouth ob- 
scurely repand. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube long, cylindrical ; lobes 
4-9, short, obtuse, imbricate. Anthers sessile at the throat of the 
corolla, as many as the lobes. Ovary 4-9-celled, with one ovule in each 
cell ; style filiform ; stigma entire or obscurely two-lobed. Fruit a 
drupe, with a thin fleshy epicarp, fibrous mesocarp and thick woody 
endocarp. — Shrubs with flowers crowded in unilateral bifid axillary 
cymes. Distrib. Mostly Tropical American. Species 40-50. 
1. G. speciosa, Linn. ; DC. Prod. iv. 455. A low tree, with stout 
pubescent branchlets. Leaves petioled, large, oblong, obtuse, membra- 
nous, rounded at the base, finely grey-downy below ; stipules large, 
lanceolate, deciduous. Flowers in copious axillary long-peduncled 
cymes, sessile, crowded, unilateral. Calyx silky, coriaceous, £ in. long. 
Corolla l|-2 in. long, white, fragrant, silky on the outside ; expanded 
limb an inch broad. Drupe globose, an inch thick. Seeds much curved. 
Lindl. Pot. Peg. t. 1393. 
Seychelles, on the shores of Mahe, Praslin, and La Digue, Bojer , Wright ! 
Horne ! Zanguebar to Australia. 
