GompAia.] xxxv. ochnaceje (oliver). 321 



the base. Stipules 2-fid or at length free. Flowers yellow to orange-red, 

 in terminal panicled simple or compound racemes, exceeding or equalling the 

 upper leaves ; pedicels usually fascicled at short intervals along the racliis 

 from short common lateral peduncles, more rarely inserted singly, articu- 

 lated at or near to the base, £-| in. long. Sepals at length 3-4 lines, linear- 

 oblong to lanceolate or ovate-oblong, obtuse in fruit, patent or reflexed, 

 usually nerved. Petals obovate, narrowed more or less to the base. Anthers 

 sessile or subsessile, elongate. Drupes 2-3 (rarely 5) lines long, ellipsoidal or 

 *ubglobose.— 0. flawt, Schum. et Thonn. Guin. PI. 216 (ex descr.). G. 

 mcrophylla, Hook. f. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 2. G. Turnera, Hook. f. 

 fk jNignt. 273 (a finely acuminate nearly entire-leaved form). 



mjft^* ^ n "*«&- Sierra Leone ! various collectors. Fernando Po, T. Vogel ! Gambia. 

 Old Calabar, W. C. Thomson ! 



Var. 3. (Gf. Schcenleiniana, Klotzsoh in SchoenL Nachl. (Extr.) 238. t. 4) differs in 

 aving the leaves narrowed to an emarginate base. I have not seeu specimens. Cape 

 ftlmas, Schcenlein. 



*ar. y . (£. micrantha, Hook. f. in Jonrn. Linn. Soc. vi. 8). Flowers very small, red. 

 Clarence Peak, Fernando Po, 5000 ft., Mann ! 



. 4 - G. Vogelii, Hook. f. II. Nigrit. 272. Characters of above, differ- 

 •"gin the rather larger coriaceous leaves, 6-10 in. long, and the ascending 

 a '«l rather broader fruit-sepals from \-\ in. Flowers not seen. 

 Upper Guinea. Grand Bassa, T. Vogel! Brass, Barter! 



5 - G. elongata, Ollv. A shrub "of 10-12 ft." Leaves submem- 

 oranous, subsessile or very shortly petiolate, elongate, narrowly oblanceolate- 



'ong, acute or acuminate, base* abruptly contracted, truncate or scarcely 

 jubcordate, denticulate-serrate, midrib and principal lateral veins prominent 

 oelow; 8-16 in. long, 2-3 in. broad. Stipules connate, 2-fid, intra-axillary. 

 * lowers in elongate interrupted racemes from the axils of ordinary or reduced 

 -•quamilbrm leaves, on Ions neduncles with the raceme 1-2 ft. long, re- 



;eral 



■• > i"-un,uis oujiiiiiy ui in iiwuuM "■ ■» "> 4 a — o "r 



e-oblong, subacute. Petals oblanceolate, rather longer than the 

 pals Anthers sessile. Fruit-sepals | in. or less than 1 in., shorter than 

 suh globose or obovoid raised drupes which are slightly keeled when dry. 



Ppep Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann ! 



m y Prove to be a form, modified perhaps by shade, of G. macropfylla. 



*' G * Mannii, Oliv. Shrub from 3 or 4 to 10 ft. Leaves large, sub- 

 sh .?' ln ° re or Iess coriaceous, elongate-oblanceolate-oblong, acute or 

 sen t * C ? minnte » narrowed to the rather broad subcordate base, denticulate- 

 Ion o m ' drib and Principal lateral veins prominent below; 9 in. to 2 ft. 

 iS .* in ' br °ad. Stipules apparently distinct. Flowers in lateral or 



■Wemunai crowded racemes, together with the peduncles 6-10 in. long 

 Dpr r ; ,Ce . ls interruptedly and usually densely fascicled, M in. long; base of 

 E** klow the articulation persistent. Sepals oblong-lanceolate ra her 

 antK " Pe,als obovate- or oblanceolate-oblong. Filaments very short or 



*£• subsessile, produced above into a narrow linear extremity, dehiscing 



