DICELLANDRA AND PHJEONEURON. 493 
longus, minutissime puberulus. Petala rosea, oblique elliptico- 
oblonga, minute apiculata, ad 17 mm. longa, 6 mm. lata. Antherg 
episepals 9:5 mm. long, appendicibus anticis oblique truncatis, 
connectivi parte producta 2 mm. longa, epipetale vix 8 mm. 
longs, connectivi parte producta brevissima, calcare admodum 
obscuro. Fructus 7-8 mm. dimetiens. Semina 1 mm. paulo lon- 
giore, angulo postico plerumque paulo producto.—Dicellandra ? 
setosa, Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 459; Cogniauz, 1. c. 
546 ; Gilg in Engl. Monogr. Afr. Pflanzenfam. ii. 33; D. liberica, 
Gilg, 1. c. 
Sierra Leona (Afzelius!); Liberia, in ditches and swamps of 
the savannahs and forests, often gregarious (Dinklage, 2056 !). 
2. PH. DICELLANDROIDES, Gilg in Engl. & Prantl, Natürl. 
Pflanzenf., Nachtr. 267. (PI. 19. figs. 17-20.)—Suffrutex, ad 2 m. 
altus. Rami vetusti, teretes, nigrescentes, ramulis novellis rufo- 
furfuraceis, mox glabratis. Folia ovata vel oblonga, interdum 
obliqua, acuta, basi rotundata vel subacuta, rarius subcordata, 
8-20 em. longa, 35-10 em. lata, margine plerumque minute 
repando-denticulata, a basi 7-nervia, nervis exterioribus margini 
admodum approximatis, venis transversis horizontalibus ut nervis 
subtus minute furfuraceis, reticulatione intervenas tranversas vix 
ulla; petioli foliorum cuiusque paris interdum insquilongi, 
longiores ad 8 em. longi, subgraciles. Panicul® ad 9:5 em. long, 
ad 4 cm. late; bractex lanceolate, minute ; pedicelli (supra 
bracteas summas) 1-2 mm.longi. Calyx hemisphericus, minutis- 
sime pubescens, 4-5 mm. longus. Petala violacea vel rosea, 
oblique elliptica, obscure apiculata, 10-12 mm. longa, 7-8 mm. 
lata. Anthere episepale 5:5 mm. long, connectivo basi brevissime 
producto, appendicibusanticis tuberculiformibus, caleare truncato, 
epipetale vix minores. Fructus 7-8 mm. dimetiens. Semina 1 
mm. paulo breviora.— Gilg in Engl. Monogr. Afrik. Pflanzenfam. 
ii. 85, t. viii. B (the Cameroon plant). 
West Africa: Cameroons, Yaünde, common in swamps, on the 
banks of streams, and in clearings of the woods (Zenker d Staudt, 
159! Zenker, 1418!); Bipinde, on the shady banks of streams 
(Zenker, 904!) ; Gross-Batanga, on the banks of streams and the 
swampy ground of forests (Dinklage, 6351) ; Kribi, by streams 
(Preuss, 261). 
An imperfect specimen collected by G. Mann in the Sierra 
Crystal, Gaboon (no. 1680), may also belong to this species. It 
