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South Nigeuia. Obiin. Talbot 1331! 1555! 1209! Thomas 23:30 1 

 Uinoin 82 I 



North-AVest Congo. Hi-corJod by Dr Wildctuiiu (Aim. Mus, Con<i,'. scr. 5, 

 i. 11:1:) from Ircbu, Bonil)iinl)a, Brazzaville, and Lnkolcla ; also from U<'1( 

 (PI. Thonn. Ooiio, 14G). 



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Tlio loavos of this species are v(My variable iii size. Tliose of AnscU's iy\>v- 

 si^'ci in ens in Hooker's Herljariiun at Kew measure about 9 cnu by 4 ; in 

 Talbot^s 1555 tliey run uj) to 20 cm, bj 8, and tluu'e are all sorts o£ inti^r- 

 HKMliates. Tlu^ bracteol(v< also A'ary both in size and shape. The ^vhole of 

 Ibis ^roup is charact<M'ised by the drnse brown vfdvet of tlie inflorescence in 

 combination with (k'nse yellow hairs or pubescence on the ovary. 



Var. SCANDKNS, De Wihb Ann. Mus. Con<;'. ser. 5, ii. 144. 



IJprEU Congo. Yambruga. Fynaert 58 ! Talbot 1331 ! 



Descriled as a climber, and ditlenMitinted by the hairy petioles and muVv 

 surface of the leaves. But tlie petioles are normally hairy in the type, and 

 oidy become glabrous when they arc old, thougli described in the Niger Flora 

 as glabrous because the original type-specimens were ohh 



46. B. BORNEEXsis, Oliver in Hooker, Ic. Plant, t 2456 (1826). 



Ji^ntN'EO. 



Limban<»" Ifiver. 



Uaviland 57 ! Sandekan. Crcaf/h I Tenoni. 



2Jiss L. S. Gihhs 3120 ! Baram district, Sarawak. J lose 82 ! Mnara, 

 -Brunei. Hose 15 ! 



All these localities are in the north of the island, Sarawak^ and British 

 North Borneo. Nearly related to the AVcst African 7>. spaUitwea^ but dis- 

 tinguished by the smaller bracteoles and flowers, the longer pedicels, and the 

 more delicate character of the whole inflorescence. 



47. B. Veumeuleni, De Wild, in Ann. Mus. Cong, i, 255, t. li. (IDOG). 



Lower Congo. Sanda. GiUet 3409 ! 3432 ! 



So far as can be judged from the material available, this species is w 



la ted 



to B. spatltaceaj but has smaller flowers and smaller bracteoles, in both v/hich 

 respects it resembles B. borneensis* The leaves, liow^^ver, arc thin and glabrous, 

 and ronnded at the top, somew^hat resembling those of B, massaiensis. 



48. B. COMPACTA, De Wild, in Ann. Mns. Cong, ii. 142 (1907). 



Lower Congo. Lukolela. Pynaert 187 ! 



Distinguished from B. spatliacea by De Wildeman " par le port," but the 

 scanty material gives no help in this respect. The flowers are said to bi^ borni^ 

 in compact fascicles close together along the branches (wliicli is sometimes 

 the case with spatliacea)^ with differently shaped leaves and much longer 

 petioles (up to 8 cm.). The last feature, however, is not confirmed by the 

 specimen received. Is it really distinct? 



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