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Calyx small; limb about as long as the ovary ; teeth small. Corolla 
-fid; throat thinly bearded. Anthers exserted. Style bidentate, 
glabrous, included; teeth indistinct, erect. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann! 
_ 3. BP. setacea, Hiern. A glabrous glaucescent shrub, 2-3 feet 
high. Branchlets more or less compressed. Leaves oval, acuminate, 
wedge-shaped at the base, membranous, 5-6 by 2-24 in., rather paler 
beneath ; margins narrowly revolute, subrepand ; lateral veins about 
8-9 pairs, slender, pale; petiole 2-1 in.; stipules 1-4 in. long, from 
an ovate base, somewhat puberulous outside, points setaceous. Flowers 
tetramerous, y'z-7y in. long, on rather shorter divaricating pedicels, 
humerous, in hemispherical shortly pedunculate terminal panicles of 
3-2 in. diam. ; common peduncle 4 in. long ; bracts obsolete; bracte- 
oles minute. Calyx-limb small, about as long as the ovary, subtruncate. 
Corolla short, 4-fid; throat somewhat bearded. Anthers nearly 
included. Style glabrous, included, shortly bifid, with diverging lobes. 
” Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, at 4000 feet elevation, February, 
~<4ann I 
4. P. Mannii, Hiern. A shrub. Branches reddish brown, terete 
reddish-branny and slightly compressed towards the extremities. 
aves oval, subacuminate, usually wedge-shaped at the base, glabrous, 
chartaceons, rather pale on both surfaces, 24-4 by 1-13 in., margins 
very narrowly revolute ; lateral veins about 8-9 pairs, slender 5 stipules 
é-3 in. long, from an ovate reddish branny base, terminating in 2 
Setaceous points. Flowers tetramerons, } in. long, on shorter pedicels, 
5 veral together, forming slender pyramidal brachiately branched pe- 
dunculate ebracteate terminal puberulous panicles rather more than an 
inch long and equalling the common peduncle. Calyx-limb short ; 
ites short. Corolla straight ; throat bearded. Anthers included. 
tyle included, bifid. Fruit 4-} in. diam. 
Upper Guinea. River Gaboon, Mann ! 
B %. BP. foliosa, Hiern. A small glabrous shrub, 2-3 feet high. 
Tanches very leafy at the extremities. Leaves oblanceolate, shortly 
‘cuminate, narrowed gradually downwards towards the obtuse base, 
abn ce0us, 7-9 by 2-21 in., margins narrowly revolute ; lateral veins 
out 15-16 pairs, clearly marked beneath as well as the tertiary 
“ins; petiole about 4 in.; stipules about 4 in. long, apparently bifid. 
owers + in, long, tetramerous, on short rather thick pedicels or sub- 
s<ssile, closely set in brachiate subterminal pedunculate cymes of about 
Mm. in breadth; common peduncle strict, rather slender, about 3} in. 
ong ; bracts and bracteoles obsolete. Calyx-limb short, clett, about as 
8S the ovary and equalling the disk. Corolla-throat bearded. 
Per Guinéa. Sierra del Crystal, Mann! 
6. PB. lophoclada, Hiern. Glabrous shrubby, closely branched, 
Pale yellowish throughout ; branches terete ; branchlets subterete, with 
