Akodeia.] xn. viola kit.m (oliver). Ill 



broad-leaved forms sometimes rounded, serrulate above or subentire, glabrous 

 or minutely pubescent on the midrib beneath, with or without minute black 

 dots on the under surface, 4-8 in. long, l|-3 in. broad ; petiole various, 

 usually from f-2 in., occasionally only £ in. Flowers yellow or orange- 

 yellow, in terminal many-flowered panicles usually corymbose or pyramidal. 

 Sepals pilose or glabrous, obtuse. Staminal tube more or less produced 

 above the insertion of the anthers. Anterior anther-cells with a 2-partite 

 or emarginate tip. Fruit not seen. 



t'pper Guinea. Camaroons river. Mann ! Old Calabar, Rev. W. C. Thomson ! Sene- 



garabia ! 



lower Guinea. Angola, prov. Golungo Alto, Br. Welmtsch ! 

 I " er haps to this species belong specimens brought by Mr. Mann from the Gaboon, which 

 nave the tips of the anterior anther-cells less distinctly produced and obtuse or emarginate. 



13. A. ? cauliflora, Oliv. A small tree. Leaves very large, rather 

 coriaceous, broadly oblanceolate or obovate, much and gradually narrowed to 

 the base, shortly acuminate, remotely serrulate above, glabrous, the strong 

 midrib and lateral nerves prominent beneath ; 20-30 in. long, 6-9 in. broad 

 above the middle, 2-3 in. broad at 6 in. from the base, nearly sessile or upon 

 very short thick petioles. Stipules 2-3 lines, triangular-subulate, at length 

 removed a short distance from the petioles. Flowers fasciculate from nodes 

 °n the old wood, on glabrous pedicels of about 2 lines. Sepals ovate obtuse, 

 mals spreading above, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, slightly connate at the 

 Das e. Anthers closely connivent around the ovary, subsessile ; connective 

 lanceolate acute or rather obtuse, exceeding the long subulate tips of the an- 

 terior cells. Style elongate. Ovules, about 3. Fruit not seen. 



"Pper Guinea. Gaboon river, Mann ! 



* remarkably fine plant, and in habit very unlike an Ahodeia. Excepting in the slight 

 c< »nnation of the petals, it agrees with that genus as to the flowers. The fruit, however, 

 m *y prove it generically distinct. 



4. SAUVAGESIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 120. 



Sepals not produced at the base. Petals equal, contorted in {estivation, 

 fertile stamens 5; filaments very short; anthers linear, unappendaged. 

 ktaminodia in 2 series ; the 5 inner petaloid, oblong, nearly equalling the 

 jamens ; the outer of oo, capitate hairs, much shorter than the stamens. 

 Hacentas 3 ; style filiform ; stigma simple, obtuse. Capsule 3-valved, 

 opening septieidally. Seeds numerous, pitted.— Herbs or wiry undershrubs. 

 ^aves alternate, rather rigid, entire or serrulate, glabrous. Stipules pecti- 

 "ate-fimbriate. Flowers rather small, axillary, solitary, geminate or fascicled, 

 Pedicellate in the African species, white rose or violet. 



A small American genus, of which the following species is the only one common to both 



"Spheres. It appears to be common in W. tropical Africa. 



*• S. erecta, Linn. ; DC. Prod. i. 315. A low, ascending decumbent 

 * erect herb. Leaves lanceolate or narrowly elliptical, serrulate, with pro- 

 minent veins, usually \-\ in. long. Pedicels slender, spreading-decurved, 

 falling or exceeding the leaves. 

 jggNr Guinea. In wet places, Senegambia! Niger, T. Vogel and Barter ! Bagroo, 



