Landolphia. | LXXXIV, APOCYNACE# (STAPF), 45. 
locality, Thonning! Dahomey, Poisson! Newton, 12! Lagos: near Illaro, Millen, 
105! and without precise locality, Moloney ! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon, K/aine, 591! 1089! Thollon, 756; Loango; Chin- 
chocho, Soyaux, 21! Lower Congo; between Poiti and Choa, Dewévre, 393! 
Angola : Golungo Alto; mountain forests of Queta, near Cahunha and in Sobato de 
Bumba, Welwitsch, 5927! by the Lone River, Marques! 
14. L. Tayloris, Stapf. A scandent shrub with sensitive inflor- 
escences acting as tendrils ; young branches very minutely and often 
obscurely pubescent, soon glabrescent, blackish-brown, at length rough 
with small lenticels. Leaves oblong to lanceolate-oblong, gradually 
narrowed into a short obtuse acumen, obtuse or subacute at the base,,. 
3-34 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, thinly coriaceous, quite glabrous, dark 
green and glossy above, paler beneath; midrib channelled above, raised 
below ; lateral nerves subhorizontal, straight, up to 18 on each side, 
very slender, faintly raised on both sides, middle ones alternating with 
still fainter parallel tertiary nerves, all the nerves and the delicate 
network of the veins dark brown below; marginal arches flat ; petiole 
up to 2} lin. long. Panicle elongate, peduncled, bearing dense clusters 
of few sessile flowers at the ends of its spreading or recurved branches ;. 
rhachis (14-3 in. long) or branches acting as tendrils, extremely 
minutely pubescent or glabrescent all over; peduncle 2-3 in. long,. 
very slender; bracts at the base of the branches ovate, acuminate,. 
upper ovate, obtuse, finely rusty-tomentose. Calyx finely rusty- 
tomentose, scarcely over 1 lin. long; sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse or 
subacute. Corolla about 11-16 lin. long in bud ; tube slender, cylindric, 
slightly inflated and staminiferous just above the calyx, 44-6 lin. long, 
very minutely pubescent, usually only along 5 fine longitudinal lines ; 
lobes linear-lanceolate, acute, 8-11 lin. long, flexuous, ciliolate. Anthers. 
ovate-oblong, acute, ? lin. long. Ovary depressed-globose; top very 
minutely velvety. Style and stigma scarcely 14 lin. long, the latter: 
cylindric from a thickened base. 
Mile Land. British East Africa: Rabai Hills, near Fimbine, Taylor ! 
15. L. pachyphylla, Stapf. A scandent shrub with sensitive- 
inflorescences acting as tendrils; young branches very delicately rusty- 
pubescent, reddish, soon glabrescent, dotted with pale lenticels. Leaves 
ovate-lanceolate or oblong, gradually tapering into a very acute acumen,. 
obtuse or shortly subacute at the base, 24-34 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, 
very coriaceous, very minutely and scantily furfuraceous when young, 
soon glabrescent, bright yellowish-green and shining above, dull below ; 
midrib channelled above, raised below; lateral nerves up to 20 on each 
side, horizontal, straight, very faintly raised on both sides; reticulation 
very delicate, yellowish above, inconspicuous below; marginal arches 
flat, obscure; petiole up to 4 lin. long, slender. Panicle elongate, 
peduncled, bearing dense clusters of many sessile flowers at the ends of 
the spreading or recurved branches, the rhachis (rarely more than 2 in. 
long) or branches often acting as tendrils, delicately pubescent all over ; 
