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GNIDIA oppositifolia.. 
Pair-leaved Gnidia. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNI4A. 
GNIDIA. . Cor. longa filiformis, limbo 4-fido. Squamule 4-8, 
laciniis alterna. Stylus filiformis lateralis; stig. capitatum hispidum 
Sem. corolla tectum. Folia in paucis opposita ; flores terminales dis- 
tincti aut rariis aggregati. Jussieu. gen. 77: revocata sub eadem ejus 
a Bergio mutuata Nectandra. 
Oxs. In Gnidia simplici corolla ab articulo tubi caduca. 
G. oppositifolia, foliis decussatis, ovatis v. ovali-lanceolatis, acutis, 
. Jabris: callis staminiformibus 4 nudis supra faucem: staminibus 8 
"sub fauce. 
Gnidia oppositifolia. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 512. Syst. veg. ed. 13. 309, 
Willd. sp. pl. 2. 428 ; (excluso Lhunb. cum char. spec.) - Hort. Kew. 
ed. 2. 2. 413; (hacce varietate tents.) 
G. levigata. Thunb. prodr. 67. Wendl. botan. beobacht. 17. tab. 2, 
fig. 14. Andrews’s reposit. 89. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 426. 
‘Thymela africana Sanamundz: prioris Clusu facie. Pluk. almag. 367. 
phyt. t. 823. fig. 7. an 
(6) rami, folia floralia, limbus intts, callique (in sicco saltém) purpu- 
Tascentid;ass ane 
Passerina levigata, Amen, acad. 4.312, Lin. sp. pl. 1. 513. Mant. 
375. poe 
Nectandra levigata. — Berg. capens. 134. 
"Thymelea foliis planis acutis, coma & floribus purpureis. Burm. afr. 
_ 137. tab. 49. fig. 3. . } 
Frutex. Caulis erectus, cicatriculis prominulis consitus, glaber, pennam 
corvinam crassus: rami virgati, superni, pion, divisi ; ramuli_filiformes, 
JSorifert. Folia unguicularia, patentia, glauco-pruinata, modo apice ruben- 
lia: floralia parim latiora conniventia. slGree subquini, terminales, agere- 
ati, sessiles, pollicares, extits albo-sericei : tubus angustus, levissime dilatatus 
in fuucem, striatus, supra germen articulato-constrictus : lacinie limbit hoc 
uater breviores, oblonga, rotundate, primo explanate, indé replicatis late- 
ribus convere: ad divisuras pro squamulis petalodis, corpuscula 4 stamina 
mentientia, Anth. sessiles, duplici serie. Germ. sericeum. 
The tendency of the present species to unite with 
SrruTHIoLa, is curiously evinced by a transition of the 
more usual petallike scales, into four small inorganic 
bodies, representing as many stamens with short filaments 
and adnate yellow anthers; as well as by the subsiding of 
all the real stamens below the orifice of the tube. 
Linneus, in a later work, has combined this species 
from two of distinct genera, imto which he had for- 
; BA. 
