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hairy veins, 14-6} by 3-34 in., or the upper ones smaller ; lateral 
veins 12-16 on each side of the midrib ; petioles ranging up to 24 in. ; 
stipules shortly oval, 4-4 in. long. Flowers pentamerous, 4-2 in, 
long, subsessile, several together in pedunculate globose or hemi- 
spherical compact cymes of 4-2 in. diam.; peduncles ranging up to 
in. axillary and terminal; bracts broadly oval or ovate, involu- 
crate. Calyx-tube densely pilose; lobes lanceolate or linear-lanceo- 
late, 32 in. long, spreading glabrous inside. Corolla rather slender ; 
tube glabrous below, appressedly hairy above ; teeth ovate-lanceolate, 
short, hairy outside. Anthers inserted at the throat of the corolla. 
Style 5-cleft at apex. Fruit pisiform, shaggy, 5-celled. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, 7h. Vogel! (buds whitish, tipped with rose), 
Mann! (flowers brownish); Cameroon River, Mann ! 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! 
_ 6. S. venosa, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 399. A rambling shrub 
with terete glabrescent branches. Leaves ovate-elliptical, acutely 
acuminate, suboblique and obtuse at the base, more or less hairy on 
both sides, not tomentose, 2-4 by 3-13 in.; lateral veins 12-18 on 
each side of the midrib; petiole ranging up to 2 in.; stipules ovate, 
3-4 in. Flowers tetramerous or pentamerous, 4-}$ in. long, very 
shortly pedicellate, several together in very shortly pedunculate sub- 
globose axillary cymes 4-4 in. diam.; bracts lanceolate-oblong, $-} in., 
hot involucrate. Calyx-tube pilose campanulate-oblong and 4/5 in. 
ong in flower, globose in fruit; lobes ovate-oblong, about equal- 
ing the tube or rather longer, especially in fruit. Corolla pilose out- 
mad, lobes lanceolate, short. Fruit 4-5-celled, 3 in. diam.—Virecta 
wtea, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 521, ? ex Benth. 1. c. (lowers yellow). 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Sierra Leone, G. Don! Afzelius! 
a ?. 8. ?segregata, Hiern. A climbing shrub, 15 ft. high, with terete 
we ressedly pubescent branches. Leaves ovate-oval, acuminate, ex- 
“vated or rounded at the base, subglabrous above except the 
pubescent midrib, glabrescent below except the pilose-pubescent veins, 
ree up to 6 by 23 in.; petiole up to 3 in., pubescent; lateral 
tot 12-16 on each side of the midrib ; stipules ovate, acute, 4 in. 
ion glabrous or nearly so. Flowers about } in. long, shortly pe- 
ca: iter pentamerous, in axillary branching bracteate paniculate, not 
aia te, pubescent cymes of 1-2} in. long; bracts oval or oblong, 
1 Involucrate. Calyx pubescent; lobes oval-oblong or sublinear, 
insid m. long. Corolla puberulous outside; lobes ovate, glabrous 
9. ile Stamens inserted at the throat of the corolla. Ovary 
celled. Fruit. 2-celled. 
Uv Dp: 
PPer Guinea. Muni River, 1° N. lat., Mann! 
ihn S.? caulifiora, Hiern. A more or less pubescent (erect 
or o ). Branches obtusely angular above or terete below. Leaves oval 
17} vate, shortly acuminate, attenuate at the base, ranging up to 
the v:.1U'> petiole to 14 in.; lateral veins 19-23 on each side of 
midrib, slender ; stipules ovate, 1-1} in. long. Flowers 5—6- 
