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what angular, pendulous; testa fibrous-suleate——Shrubs or small 
trees, glabrous or nearly so, with opposite slender leafy branches, 
opposite chartaceous or thinly coriaceous leaves,-ovate or truncate 
apiculate stipules connate at the base and small flowers in axillary and 
sometimes also terminal panicles. 
An endemic genus. 
Flowers 3-3 in. long, not fasciculate . . 2... . . .. LP africana, 
Flowers 4-} in. long, fasciculate . . . . . . . . . . « 2 P. parviflora. 
l. P. africana, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 393. A glabrous shrub. Leaves 
oval or elliptical, obtusely acuminate, rather obtusely narrowed or 
nearly rounded or rarely wedge-shaped at the base, delicately reticu- 
late at least beneath, 1-44 by 2-2 in.; lateral veins about 5-6 pairs ; 
petiole J-1 in. ; stipules 3-4 in. Flowers 4-3 in. long, greenish 
white, fragrant, on short slender pedicels ; bracteoles small, ovate, 
acute. Calyx , in. long; teeth ciliolate. Fruit 3-4 in. long —A. 
Rich. in Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. v. pp. 117, 251 (1834) ; Gardenia 
parviflora, Smeathman ex DC. |.c., non Poir; Wendlandia virgata, G. 
Don, Gen. Syst. iii. p. 519, n. 20 (1834). 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Zh. Vogel! G. Don! Smeathman! Sene- 
gambia, Heudelot ! Leprieur and Perrottet ; Niger, Borgu, Barter! Bagroo River, 
dann ! 
Var.? cuneata. Leaves wedge-shaped or attenuate at the base, elliptical or lan- 
ceolate. Calyx nearly glabrous ; teeth minutely ciliolate. 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! 
Perhaps a distinct species. 
2. BP. parviflora, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 395. A shrub or 
small tree, up to 12 feet high, nearly glabrous. Leaves oval, with a 
prolonged narrow obtuse or rarely acute acumen, obtusely narrowed 
the base, 14-5 by 3-2} in.; latcral veins about 6-8 pairs ; petioles 
ro~3 in.; stipules 2-4 in. Flowers 3+ in. long (exclusive of the 
anthers and style-branches), white, subsessile or shortly pedicelled, 
fasciculate, in puberulous racemose spikes. Calyx puberulous. Corolla- 
lobes reflexed. Fruit 3 in. long. 
M, Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Th. Vogel! Barter! Prince’s Island, Barter! 
Hann ! 
Searcely distinct from the previous species, of which it might be regarded as an 
insular form. 
40. TRICALYSIA, A. Rich. ex DC. Prodr. iv. p. 445 et in Mém. 
Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. v. p. 224 (1834). (Kraussia, Harv. Diplo- 
crater, Hook. f.—Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. pp. 95, 96. 
Calyx-tube turbinate or campanulate, in many species girt at the 
© with a single or double epicalyx of involucral bracts ; limb trun- 
ne OF shortly dentate or 4-6-lobed, in some species at length cut 
ongitudinally by two opposite slits. Corolla funnel-shaped or shortly 
“alver-shaped ; tube short, not many times exceeding the calyx ; throat 
" Slabrous or bearded ; limb usually spreading, deeply lobed ; lobes 4-8, 
