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6. O. querimbensis, Klotzsch in Peter’s Mossamb. Bot. p. 292. A 
glabrous branched shrub of 10 feet with pale branches and shoots. 
Leaves narrowly elliptical acuminate at both ends, petiolate, dark 
green above, pale below, 4 by 1 in.; stipules broad below, subulate- 
acuminate above. Flowers subcorymbose; peduncles short, in the 
upper axils. Calyx-limb acutely 5-toothed. Corolla white; tube 24 in. 
long; lobes 45, in. long, rather acute. Fruit oblong, 2-celled, 1 by 
4 in.; seeds oblong, curved, minutely labyrinthiform ; testa fibrous. 
Mozamb. Distr. Querimba Islands, in sandy stony places, Peters / 
There is in the Kew Herbarium a specimen, collected by Dr. Kirk on the 
southern slopes of the Manganja Hills at an elevation of 500 feet, which differs from 
this species. The leaves measure 4-7 by 13-2} in., and the fruit 14 by %in.; the 
bracteoles are lanceolate-subulate. 
7. O. formosus, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Pl. 785-6 (1848). A gla- 
brous shrub, 10 feet high, erect, not much branched, subherbaceous at 
the extremities. Leaves oval-oblong, shortly acuminate, obliquely 
subauriculate at the base, glossy, firmly chartaceous, 8-11 by 3-4 in., 
lateral veins about 9-10 pairs; petiole about % in.; stipules ovate, 
}-1in. Flowers 5-8 in. long, on pedicels of 4-3 in., in axillary ebrac- 
teolate (or obsoletely bracteolate) panicles scarcely equalling the 
leaves. Calyx } in.; limb rather dilated, shorly dentate, green. Co- 
rolla white ; lobes 3-11 in. long. Ovary 2-celled.—Benth. in Hook. 
Niger Fl. p. 387, t. 40-41. 
Upper Guinea. Cape Palmas, 7h. Vogel! Fernando Po, Mann! 
8. O. brevifiorus, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 388. A glabrous 
branched shrub, about 6 feet high. Leaves oblong, subacuminate, 
obliquely subauriculate at the base, coriaceous, 6-10 by 2-3} in., 
lateral veins about 9 pairs ; petiole }- in.; stipules ovate, about ? in. 
long. Flowers about 1 in. long (or perhaps longer), on pedicels of 
m., in axillary obsoletely bracteolate or ebracteolate panicles of 
2-3 in, Calyx 23-1 in. long; limb truncate, minutely toothed. Co- 
Tolla-lobes about 2 in. long. Fruit obovoid, 1 in. long, terete. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Th. Vogel! 
9. O. gracilis, Hiern. A slender glabrous branched shrub, 8 
feet high. Branches terete, spreading at both 50°, somewhat thickened 
at the nodes. Leaves oval, acutely acuminate, wedge-shaped at the 
base, chartaceous, glossy, 3-6 by 14-21 in, lateral veins about 6-8 
Pairs ; petiole }-8 in.; stipules ovate, } in. long, tip usually reflexed. 
owers about 2 in. long, on slender pedicels of 3-3 in., in abbreviated 
Slobose lax axillary cymes; bracteoles minute. Calyx green; teeth 
peulate, acute, rather short. Corolla white; lobes 3 in. long. Ovary 
-Celled, 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann! 
i. OQ? platystylis, Hiern. <A shrub, 12 ft. high, of a pallid 
am ‘r primrose hue, glabrous except the inflorescence. Branches 
“a 4.sided. Uppermost leaves crowded, obovate or oblanceolate, 
ile, 
subacuminate, not much narrowed, broadly cordate at the base, 
