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Planta scandens. | Ramuli novelli einnamomeo-floccoso- vel 
araneoso-tomentell, mox glabrescentes; cirri dichotomi, longi. 
Folia late cordato-ovata vel subpentagono-cordata, acute acumi- 
nata, sinu lato, margine serrato-crenata, ad 6 poll. longa, ad 
5 poll. lata, membranacea, in gemma dorso cinnamomeo-tomen- 
tosa, citissime glabrescentia indumento parco araneoso persistente, 
hine inde purpurascentia, e basi 5-nervia, nervis lateralibus e costa 
ortis utrinque 4-5 omnibus uti venis tenuibus; petioli paulo 
ultra 2 poll. longi, graciles. Panicule oppositifolie, pedunculo 
ad 44 poll. longo suffulte, densiflora, ad 14 poll. longs, 2 poll. 
late, ramo infimo in cirrum dichotomum commutato, ramis 
ramulisque primo cinnamomeo-araneosis cito glabratis; bracteæ 
ovate, tenuiter membranacez, ad 1 lin. long ; pedicelli graciles, 
ad 1 lin. longi. Calyx patelliformis, } lin. diametro, glaber. 
Petala 5, oblonga, cucullata, ad 1 lin. longa, glabra. Stamina 5. 
Ovarium 10-suleatum ; stylus brevissimus, late conicus. 
Sinoe Basin, Whyte (flores & ). 
Eriocelum pendulum, Stapf (sp. nov.); affinis Æ. racemoso, 
Baker, differt floribus multo minoribus, racemis flexuoso-pendulis 
longissimis. 
Rami juniores fusco-hirtelli, mox glabrescentes. Folia 2-3- 
juga; rhachis 13-2 poll. longa, fulvo-hirtella, glabrescens ; 
foliola infima ad rhachis basin quam reliqua multo minora 
ceterum iis simillima, intermedia et summa oblonga vel lanceo- 
lato-oblonga, interdum subobliqua, acuminata, basi subacuta 
vel obtusa, 21-4 poll. longa, 11-14 poll. lata, chartacea, preter 
costam sparse adpresse hirtellam glabra, nervis lateralibus 
utrinque 8-9 prorsus curvatis uti venarum retieulatione tenui 
subtus prominula; petioluli 1-2 lin. longi. Racemi pedales, 
graciles, flexuoso-penduli, densiflori, ex toto fulvo-hirtelli ; rhachis 
fere filiformis, a basi florifera; bracteæ lanceolate, parve; pedi- 
celli i-i lin. longi, fasciculati. Sepala ovata, subacuta, fulvo- 
hirtella, 4 lin. longa. Petala anguste lanceolata, 1 lin. longa. 
Filamenta 13 lin. longa. 
Near Monrovia, Whyte. 
Deinbollia polypus, Stapf (sp. nov.); affinis D. insigni, 
Hook. f., sed foliolis angustioribus, basi magis acutatis tenu- 
issime acuminatis, panicula exsiecando nigrescente, floribus paulo 
minoribus pedicellis medio articulatis, staminibus paucioribus 
differt. 
Foliola lanceolata, tenuissime acuminata, basi acutata, ad 
