OF THE SIERRA LEONE BOUNDARY COM MISSION. 95 
oblong-lanceolate, crenate, subcoriaceous, subscabrous above, 
densely pubescent with raised veinlets beneath, the lower 4-5 
inches long. Spikes very dense, sparingly panicled, peduncled, 
cylindrical, the end one 3-4 in. long; pedicels obsolete. 
Fruit-calyx 4 in. long ; upper lip oblong, concave, deflexed, much 
longer than the tube; four lower suborbicular. Corolla } inch. 
In alluvium, Freetown, no. 5083. 
POLYGONACER. 
SYMMERIA PANICULATA, Benth. 
The female of the African form does not seem to have been 
collected before. I find scarcely any good distinctions between 
it and the American plant. 
“ Mongmoi” of Mendi, near Kambia, on Scarcies, Jan. 7, 
no. 4467; near Madina, Limba Country, April 11, no. 5662; 
also Kahreni, no. 5573. 
ARISTOLOCHIACES. 
ARISTOLOCHIA LEONENSIS, Mast., sp. nov. 
Scandens, ramis suberosis crassitie penne anserine; foliis 
remotiusculis petiolatis, petiolis pollicaribus antice sulcatis, 
laminis ¢. 4} poll. long., 24 poll. lat., coriaceis glabris oblongis 
sensim acuminatis basi subrotundis palmatim 3-nerviis, venis 
paucis arcuato-reticulatis ; racemis e ramorum lateribus emer- 
gentibus, erectis 1—2 poll. longis plurifloris ; ovario lineari-oblongo 
puberulo; perianthio tubulato circa 1} poll. long. pedicellum 
cum ovario paulo superante, tubo angusto rectiusculo, basin 
versus oblique ventricoso medio intus pilis rufescentibus instructo 
et ad initium partis ventricose processu carnoso annulari tuber- 
culato munito, limbo cupulato late 3-lobo, lobis patentibus del- 
toideis petaloideis, fauce annulo carnoso circumdato ; staminibus 
6; processibus stigmatosis carnosulis late oblongis obtusis con- 
duplicatis ad margines pilosiusculis. 
Near Kassa, alt. 3600 ped., no. 5062. 
PIPERACES. 
PEPEROMIA, sp. nov. . . 
Unfortunately, like Barter’s specimen from the same hill, this 
is a male plant; but it is a very distinct form. 
On Sugarloaf Mountain, April 26, no. 5755. 
LINN. JOURN.—BOTANY, VOL. XXX. 
