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OF THE GENUS BAriTIA. 235 



and whon youno- thoy arr covenMl witli exactly ilu' same sort o£ piil)esc(Micc 

 as tlioso of crasslfolia, whoriuis in hipindeims thoy nro glabrous from the 

 hotriniiino-. Tho i>-onoral oliaracter of tlu^ infloresciMicc also indicates that 

 the plant belongs to the crassifolia typf^ 



31, P>. ERIOCALYX, Harms in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 105 (1902) • 



Kamerun. Bipindo, in tlie virgin forest. Zenker 2:580! 48G9 ! 3150 1 



4111 ! 



Easily recognisable by the dense wliitisli iinlmnoiituin of the pedicels nnd 

 calyx and the very short petioh^s. The bractcok'S arc inserted upon the 

 pedictd, not upon the calyx itself, from which th(7 often stand at an appre- 

 ciable distance; but this feature is not so pronounced as in B. ]yolyanlha. 



32. B. PUBESCENS, Hook. f. Niger FL 320 (1849). B. lau/ifoUa, Bailh 



Adans, vi. 213 {fde Baker, Fl. Trop. Afr,)- 



Gold Coast, Farmer 539 ! Chipj) 452 ! 



Nigeria, Barter 1G17 ! Baumann 15 ! Elliott 111 ! Foster 219 ! 



BiiLGlAN Congo. Do AVildeman, Ann, Mus. Cong, ser, 5, vol i. 255, 



vol. ii. 113, and voh iii. 197, gives ten different localities. In Deutsch. 

 Z(Mitriil-Afr, Exped. 243 it is also recorded from Aru^vimi. 



Kamerun. Yaunde. ZenJcer 1411 ! 



A shrub or small tree with rather small, crowded leaves and flowers in 

 clusters of 1 to 4 in the axils on the main branches. Very variable in the 

 iudmnoutum. In the typical plant the young branches, floral axis, pedicels, 

 calyxj and ovary are all covered with a dense, short pubescence, and the 

 under surface of the young leaves and tho petioles are densely silky, but 

 the young branches and petioles sometimes have only scattered hairSj the 

 pedicels may be glabrate, and the calyx minutely pul)eralous, while the liairs 

 on the young leaves are sometimes confined to the nerves. 



33. E. DiNKLAGEi, Harms in Engh -Jahrb. xxvh 279 (1899). 



Liberia. Grand Bassa, Fishtown, Thickets on the sandy foreshore. 

 Dinklage 1G64 ! " In frattcetis solo subhumido pors[cpe." Dlnklage 1975 ! 



The flowers are larger and the i)etioles shorter than in puhescens. The ovary 

 also is covered with longer hairs. In the herbarium specimens the flowers 



appear to be in terminal racemes, probably owing to the falling-off of the 



leaves. 



34. B. BATAXGENSis, Harms in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 1G6 (1902). 



Kamerux. Batanoe. iJhiklar/e 92G ! 



Described as a shrub with villous young branches, petioles, pedicels, calyx, 

 and ovarv. Distinguished from jm^^e^^c^^n.^ by the larger bracteoles (3 mm.) 

 and calyx (11 mm.), and by the harsh character of the indumentum. 



