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230 JIK. L. V. LESTER-GARLAKD : A REVISION 



35. B. ruNCTULATA, Harms in Engl. Jalirb. xl. 32 (1908). 



East Afhlca. llill.s near Lake' Taudangonooro ; c. 250 ni. in thick busliy 

 forest. Basse 2486 ! 



From tli<! scanty niatrml availa}>]e it lias boon found impossible to deal 

 satisfactorily ^vitli tbis spocios. It is clearly clos<*ly relah^d to some forms of 

 crassifo'da, <\ <r. Zenker 2082 A it 2519, bat tb(^ petioles {\vo not so thick and 

 tbe venation of tlie leaves on tlt(^ nndcM* side is nion^ d^dicaic. It is also rather 

 like a olnl)resci^nl form of j^ubescens ; but the probal)ility is that it is distinct 

 from boih; as it comes from the opposite sid(^ of Africa. The bracteoles are 

 described as very broad and short, sub-orbicular or n^niform ; the flowers one 

 to tlnvo together in the axils ; the piulicels rather loner and brown-velvety ; 

 the calyx pubescent; tJK^ ovary *' margine hirsnto.'' 



M, B. roLYANTHA, Harms in Engl. Jahrb, xh 32 (11)06). 

 IvAMiaiuN, Bipinde. Zenker 2C)S5 I 2988 A! 41U ! 



Harms lays great stress upon the position of the bractooles, ^vhich '' are not 

 placed immediabdy or almost inunediately at tlie base of the calyx, but 

 nearly ia th<^ iniddN^ of tlu^ pedicel or a little above its bas(\'' TIk^ bracteoles 

 stand at ii distance from the calyx in some of tln^ other species (e. o-. ohovata^ 

 contifoUa, and eriocahj.r)^ but never so far as poh/antha. When this is the 

 case they are often deciduous. This very dii:tlnct plant has several other 

 easily n^cognh^able features — the rather long and wry narrow axillary racon^^s 

 and the large^ dark-coloured, deciduous bracts aniong otln'rs. 



B. STia.vr^, Bracteoles large, oblong to linear-oblongs conspicuously striated^ 



with scattered hairs, A pair of lanceolate, striated^ persistent stipular 

 bracts at the base of th<^ pedicels. 



37. B. PiLOSA, Baill. in Adans. vi. 21G (18(]G) ; Bak(^r in Oliver, Fb Trop. 

 Afr. ii.249 (1871). 



Garun, Dujmrquet 20 (BiuWim). Klaine 215G I S^)9 I (.^x herb. L, Pierre). 



Angola, Woods at Pango Munga. Gossweiler C483 ! 



A woody climber. Easily recognised by the long, soft, fawn-coloureil 

 hairs of the inflorescence and petioles. In the speci(\s of this st^ction th<' 

 pedicels spring from the axil of a bract which is usually very small and 

 disappears early, and which bears at its base a pair of stipules. When \\\i\ 

 bract falls off, the stipnles remain and look like a pair of bracts at the base 

 of the pedic<ds. JSouK^times no flow(U' develops in the axil, and tlien th(^ bract 

 its(df is generally persistent and grows larger, and the true nature of the 

 stipules becomes apparent. 



38. B. CALOPHVLLA, Harms in Engl, Jahrb. xlix, 433 (1913)- 



Kamerun, Bipinde. Virgin forest. Zenker 4602 ! 





