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rhachis and acting as tendrils; bracts ovate, more or less acute or 
obtuse, often recurved at the tips, densely fulvo-tomentose, caducous ; 
pedicels stout, very short. Calyx about 2} lin. long, densely fulvo- 
tomentose without ; sepals broad-ovate, sub-acute or obtuse, recurved 
at the tips, long ciliate. Corolla glabrous, except for very long cilia on 
the lobes ; tube widest about or slightly above the middle, subcylindrie 
at both ends, about 6} lin. long, mouth narrow; lobes ovate-oblong, 
subacute, 6 lin. long, 2 lin. broad. Stamens inserted at the middle of 
the corolla-tube; anthers 1 lin. long. Ovary depressed, glabrous, 
sulcate ; style filiform, 3 lin. long; stigma cylindric from a thickened 
base, 1 lin. long, 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, 330 ft., Zenker, 1290! 
Var. glabrata, Hallier f., 1.c. 87. Leaves glabrous on both sides, otherwise very 
similar to those of the type. 
Upper Guinea (?), Zraun! 
The variety is represented oily by barren specimens now in the Vienna Hof- 
museum, received by Dr. Traun of Himburg from West Africa. 
9. L. eminiana, /Zallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. 
Wissensch. Anstalt. xiv. (1899), 3. Beth. 88. A scandent shrub; ten- 
«lrils uaknown. Young branches densely rusty- or fulvous-tomentose, at 
length glabrescent, brown, with a few whitish lenticels. Leaves oblong, 
obtuse, rounded at the base, 34-4 in. long, 14 in. broad, coriaceous, 
fulvo-pubescent on both sides when young, soon glabrescent except 
the midrib, glossy and green above, drab beneith; midrib shallowly 
‘channelled above, much raised beneath; lateral nerves slender, 11-13 
on each side, slightly raised on both sides; reticulation distinct and 
slightly raised above; petiole 34-4 lin. long, tomentose. Panicles 
terminal, shortly peduncled, tomentose, dense, many-flowered, much 
‘contracted or (according to Hallier) elongate, with remote and partly 
cirriform branches ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, up to 3 lin. long, villous, 
early caducous; bracteoles broad-ovate or obovate, very similar to 
the calyx-segments, obtuse with recurved tips, more or less hairy ; 
pedicels very short, stout. Calyx 24-3 lin. long; sepals ovate-oblong, 
‘obtuse or subacute, tips reflexed, minutely and densely tomentose 
within, more loosely hairy without. Corolla densely rusty- or fulvous- 
tomentose without ; tube 7-9 lin. long, widest about the middle; lobes 
oblong-linear, obtuse, about 5-6 lin. long, 2-3 lin. broad, almost 
glabrous on the inner side. Stamens inserted at the middle of the 
‘€rolla-tube ; anthers slightly over 1 lin. long. Ovary densely adpres- 
sadly hirsute; style filiform, about 4 lin. long, hairy except on the 
upper part ; stigma slender, 1 lin. long, 2-lobed. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Karagwe; Itolio, western shore of 
Lake Victoria, 2100 tt., Stuhlmann, 930! Usmao; Mwanza, southern shore of Lake 
Victoria, Stuhlmann, 4662! 
10. L. bracteata, Dewevre, Caoutch. Afr. Monogr. Landolph. 31. 
A scandent shrub up to 20 ft. high, with branched tendrils from the 
