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plant named by Lamarck, figd. 111. t. 68, by its broader oblique leaves and want of 
peduncle or pedicel. A plant called Pyrostria obliqua , by Bojer, is simply a form with 
solitary flowers and leaves rather more oblique than usual. Of P. lancifolia , Bojer, 
MSS., which has sessile flowers and lanceolate leaves 3-4 inches long, narrowed to 
both ends, we have only a flowerless scrap. 
15. SCYPHOCHLAMYS, Balf. fil. 
Calyx with a campanulate coriaceous obscurely 4-5-toothed limb 
above the ovary. Corolla funnel-shaped, with a campanulate 
tube, and 4-5 thick lanceolate triquetrous segments, valvate in aesti- 
vation, Anthers 4-5, sessile at the villose throat of the corolla 
tube, lanceolate, acute. Ovary 4-5-celled ; ovules one in a cell ; 
style simple, cylindrical. Fruit large, oblong, fleshy, not seen 
mature. Flowers in dense peduncled axillary heads enclosed in a 
persistent cup-shaped coriaceous involucre. Endemic. The only 
species. 
1. S. revoluta, Balf. fil. A much-branched glabrous shrub, with 
moderately stout terete branchlets. Leaves shortly petioled, glossy, 
coriaceous, normally broad-oblong, 3-4 in. long, 1|— 3 in. broad, rounded 
at both ends, but varying to lanceolate or linear, narrowed to both ends, 
3-4 in. long, in. broad ; stipules coriaceous, deltoid, persistent, form- 
ing a complete ring. Clusters of flowers on short erecto-patent 
peduncles from the axils of the leaves, 6-10 flowers crowded in a cup- 
shaped persistent truncate coriaceous involucre i in. broad and long ; 
pedicels very short and stout. Calyx campanulate, J in. long. Corolla- 
tube half as long again as the calyx ; segments i in. long, spreading 
horizontally when expanded. Anthers in. long, reaching halfway up 
the limb, and conniving over the stigma. Fruits in the specimen seen 
only one ripening in an involucre, oblong, an inch long, crowded by the 
persistent coriaceous calyx. 
Rodriguez, in the higher parts of the island, along with Randia heterophylla, 
Dr. Balfour ! 
16. RUTIDEA, DC. 
Calyx-tube campanulate j teeth 5, minute, obtuse. Corolla funnel- 
shaped, with a short tube and 5 Ungulate lobes, contorted and imbri- 
cated in bud. Stamens 5, inserted at the throat of the tube ; filaments 
very short. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules solitary in the cells ; style filiform, 
with two branches. Fruit a small pea-like berry with a single seed. 
— Erect or climbing shrubs, pilose or glabrous, with small flowers in dense 
terminal corymbs. Distrib. Africa. Species about 10. 
1. R. coriacea, Baker. An erect shrub, 20-30 feet high, with short 
stout erect branchlets. Leaves distinctly petioled, glabrous, shining, 
subcoriaceous, spotted and ribbed with red when young, broad-oblong, 
subacute, deltoid at the base, 4-6 in. long ; stipules large, connate, 
lanceolate. Flowers in dense sessile or short-peduncled terminal 
corymbs 2-3 in. broad, with puberulent branches and short erect 
pedicels. Calyx campanulate, -fc i n - long. w ith 5 erect obtuse teeth. 
