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MK. L. V. LESTER-GARLAND: A REVIS^ION 



South Xiokria, A. E. Altson 1009! ^"^ Fon^st tree. Saiidv/' Obini. 

 Talbot 1764! 



T\\o Avliole plnnt is nitlicr softly liairj avIhwi tlio leav(^s ami braiiclies arc 

 young, 



28. B, CRASsiFOLiA, Harms in Engl. Jabrb. xxvi. 280 (1899). 

 Kamkrun. Lolodorf. Staudt IGO ! Bipindo, Zenker 4987 ! 4670 1 



44011 1216 1 2519! 13041 



South Nigeria. Oban. Talbot I 



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Belgian Congo, ''Vallw de la Djunia. GentiL Loanga. Gentil 28, 



Ann. Mils, Cong. ser. 5, vol. i. 13L 



Tliis species is b<^st r(^cogniseJ by tlu^ combination of a glabrous or glabre- 



tlu^ tbick-petiobMl coriaceous 



scent calyx Avith a velvety pedicel and 

 leaves. But it appears to be rather variable. 



Var. Di'SENllj Harms, Lc. ''Typo similis, difftM't non nisi foliis latioribiis 

 (ovatis vol ovato-oblongis vel oblongis)." 



Kamkrun, Dusen. 



The leaves of many species of UapJda are very variable. I don})t tlu 

 wisdom of naming a variety on tlie ground of a mere difference in breadth. 



29. B. DENsiFLORA, Harms in Engh tfalirb. xxvi. 280 (1899). 

 Congo. Near Mukenge. Togge 819 I 



NiGEKLV, Oban. Talbot 1719 I Eket district. Talbot (unnumbered) ! 



Gabun. Mann ! (the sanu^ form as Talbot's 1719)- 



Harms notes that the heaves oftt^i fall off and leave long, bare panicles of 

 flo\v<M's. This n^ature is ^vidl shown in Mann's plant and in Talbot's 1719. 

 Near crassifoUa^ hut the iiidunientum is more dense and the young branches 

 are covered with a dense pubescence. 



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30. B. MVHTiFOLiA, Lester-Garlaiidj sp. nova. 



i\rbor v(d fi'utt^x strlcta, ramulis glabresc(Mitibus. Folia petiolata (p<4!ol<) 



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mm, longo, statu junioro parce adpresse-piloso), angnstc oblongo- 

 lanceolata, hasi rotundata, apice breviter acuminata^ glabra et nitida supra, 



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nervis subter + pilosis, minute punetulatu, brtmneo-viridia, chnrtacea. 

 Flores ad axillos foliorum fasiculatim (--5) dispositi ; pedicelli primum dense 

 ferrni'ineo-[iubescentes, serins glabrt^scentes, tenues i^ed stricti, apicem versus 

 incrassati, usque ad 17 mm. longi, patentes. Braeteola3 minimas, squami- 

 formes; calyx s])nthaeens, 10 mm. longus, stiitu jnniore apice dense pulx^scens, 

 ?a?terum glab(u- vel glabresc(M]S, deniquo minute puberulns ; vexiilum' cirea 

 12 mm. longum; ovarium adpress<^ pubesccns ; stylo glabro. 



South Nigeria, lalbot (unnumbered) 1912-13! 



This plant is intermediate between 7>. Upindensis and B. crassifoUa. The 

 long, slender pedicels suggest the former, but they are stiff instead of fl<'xible, 



