88 MR. SCOTT ELLIOT ON THE BOTANICAL RESULTS 
third. Tle inflorescence, which is glabrous or sparingly pubes- 
cent, is formed by two opposite and terminal flowering branches 
which bear generally many-flowered corymbs on robust or 
slender peduncles of 5-15 cm. length; the pedicels are 1-2 cm. 
long ; the calyx-tube is obovoid and of the same length as the 
Jobes, which are often reflexed at last; the corolla is white and 
its tube, which is about 1 em. long, is widened in the middle; 
the spreading lobes are obovate or oblong. The anthers are 
5 mm. long, sagittate, very acute and almost sessile. The style 
is widened below the stigma into a cup-shaped cuff. The carpels 
are free, surrounded by a low, obtusely lobed disk, and they 
contain numerous ovules in several rows on a peltate placenta. 
The fruit is a many-seeded pear- or apple-shaped berry, about 
4-5 cm. long, with a thick pericarp and numerous ovoid or 
oblong seeds of about 3 cm. length. A sketch made by Sir J. 
Kirk on the spot, as well as the fruiting specimen in the herba- 
rium, show only one berry, the other carpel having evidently 
become abortive. 
Ninia Sumbaraya, no. 4903; Bafodeya, no. 5484. 
This is a widely distributed species, which I know from the 
following localities:—Shupanga, Zambesi Exp., Kirk, 1862; 
between Sena and Lupata, Livingstone, S. Afr. Exp., Kirk, 
1859; about 60 miles up the River Shiré, Livingstone, S. Afr. 
Exp., Kirk, 1859; Shiré Highland, Buchanan no. 9; Angola, 
Welwitsch no. 5978; Fernando Po, Mann no. 243; Abbeokuta, 
Niger Exp., Barter no. 3376; Nupe, Niger Exp., Barter no. 1327; 
Lagos, Moloney, 1883; Gambia, Bathurst, MZ. Skues; Senegal, 
Heudelot (?) no. 89. 
Welwitsch’s no. 5979 consists of leafy branches like those of 
5978 and a detached partial inflorescence with flowers, larger 
than in any specimen of V. africana I have seen, but about 
equal to those of no. 5980 of Welwitsch’s collection, which has 
also somewhat different leaves with more numerous nerves. 
Nevertheless I should suggest that this is also but a form or 
variety of Voacanga africana. 
Eormocrapus Benrnamu, Baill. Hist. pl. Apocyn. 211 
(nomen solum). 
As this species is only known from the generic characters 
given in the ‘Genera Plantarum’ for Ectinocladus, I think it 
best to describe it here more in detail. 
