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OF THE GENUS BAPHIA. 



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(Icscrlptioa ir? onou<j;li to show that they havoi nothhig to do witli one another. 

 Delarla pijrifolia^ Dcsv. i.s a form ot! Baplda rutida. 



5. i3. Laurextii, Do Wlkl. in Mi;-s. 

 Belgian Congo. Ikcno-c^ No. 40. 



(190 



Uistino-uishod from y>c»///^((/a(?^a5 as tar as can bo judged from the scanty 

 material availabk^^ by tlu* short inflorescences, and the conspicuous, rather 



numerousj parallel nerves on the under side of the loaves^ as avoU as by the 

 shorter petioles. 



G. B. xML'LTiFLORA, Harms in Doutsch, Zentr.-Afr. Expod. ii. 243 (1910). 



Bext, Bushy places and water-courses In hilly elephant-grass steppe. A 

 liane witli Avhite Howers. No. 2442! 



Harms distinguishes it from polyijaJacea and raceuiosa by the much liarsher 

 and longer in<lumentnm of the inflorescence, from Heudelotlana by tlie 

 smaller flowers, from Ztukeri and Laiirentii by the much longer inflorescence. 



7. B. Ueudelotiaxa, Bail), in Adans. vi. 216 (186G). ' 



Skxegambia. Dry. stony places at Bio Bongos. Ueadelot 898 ! 

 Th(^-e is a singh^ specimen in Herb. K(*u' colK^cted by Hcudelot in 1838. 

 Apparently it has never been re-found. 



8. B. BAXGVVEOLENSis, R, E. Fries in Fedde^ Rep. Nov. Spec, xii* 51 

 (1913). 



North-East Rhodesia. In thickj dry, liana-covered forests near Lake 



Bangweolo. Tries ^2(}. 



No specimen seen. Characterised by tlio oval leaves with cordate base, 

 rounded' or occasionally shortly cuspidate at the top. 



9. B. AURIVELLKREA5 Taub. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 174 (1897J. 



Upper Congo. Between Kind)undo and the Quango. Pogge 535 ! 



Characterised by the villous, golden indumontum. The flowers are described 

 as axillary, on(.^ or two together. No other species ot" the section BmcteoJarla 

 has anything but a racemose or paniculate^, inflorescence. The only specimen 

 I have s<»en is too fragm(Mitary to give any idea of the plant as a whole. 



10. B. Zenkeri, Taub. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii, 174 (1897). 



Kamekun, In apricis int(^r lapidos ad Massa prope A^aunde Station circa 

 900 m. alt. Zenlccr Sf Staudt 492 ! 



Distinguishable from Jleudidoliana by th(^ short raceuK^s and the smaller, 

 9ub-coriaceous leaves, as \^\.^I] as the smaller floAV(M*s. From rapparidifolia^ 

 wdiich it r(^seud)K^S5 it niay be distinguiHliod by th(^ h(^avier iii(himentum and 

 the rather broader loaves. 



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