Voacanga. | LXXXIV, APOCYNACEE (STAPF). 158 
Leaves and inflorescences glabrous ; calyx 44+ lin. 
long, with a ring of glands at the very base, 
lobes usually porrect, as long as or shorter 
than the tube; corolla-limb violet-brown . 13. V. bracteata. 
1. V. obtusa, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Planzenfam. iv. ii. 
149, A tall glabrous tree; branches stout, pallid, or the youngest 
blackish when dry. Leaves crowded towards the tips of the branches, 
obovate to oblong, obtuse to subacute, subeuneate towards the base, 
4-9 in. long, 14-8} in. broad, dark green, shining when fresh, subcori- 
aceous, dull when dry; secondary nerves subhorizontal or rather 
oblique, almost straight, slender; petiole 4—9 lin. long. Inflorescences 
usually geminate from the branch-forks, shortly racemiform or umbelli- 
form, few-flowered ; peduncle stout, 4—5 in. long; rhachis stout, gradu- 
ally lengthening up to 2 in. as the lower flowers fall; bracts ovate, con- 
cave, up to 5 lin. long, caducous ; pedicels stout, finally up to 6 lin. 
long. Calyx wide-tubular, about 7-8 lin. long, early circumscissile at 
the base, with very numerous glands within; lobes rotundate, about 
2 lin. long. Corolla white (or pale yellow ?), sweet-scented, fleshy ; 
tube subcylindric, not or scarcely exserted from the calyx, slightly con- 
stricted, 7-9 lin. long, twisted from the base upwards, quite glabrous ; 
limb ovoid in bud, 8 lin. long; lobes somewhat asymmetric, broadly sub- 
obcordate, narrow at the base, about 1 in. long, up to almost 14 in. 
broad, sinus shallow. Anthers inserted close to the mouth of the 
corolla, exserted for half their length, slightly over 3 lin. long. Disc 
cupular, obscurely lobed, exceeding the ovary and adnate to it only at 
the base, persistent. Style up to 8 lin. long; stigma shortly cylindric, 
grooved, with a frillat the base. Berries globose, over 2 in. in diam., 
Smooth ; pericarp very thick, fleshy. Seeds about 4 lin. long. enveloped 
in a thick pulpy coat; testa almost smooth externally, slightly intrud- 
ing into the albumen.—K. Schum. in Durand & De Wild. in Bull. 
Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 122 (V. obtusata, by error); De Wild. in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. 2 sér.. i. 84. K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 226; 
Scheffler in Notizbl. Kénigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, iii. 161.  V. Zhowarsit, 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 669, not of Roem. & Schultes. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea: Laya, by a stream, Scott-Elliot, 4481! 
Cameroons : Yaunde, 2600 ft., Zenker & Staudt, 130! 
Wile Land. Uganda: Kampala, Scott-Elliot, 7506! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Ambaca; slong streams between Ngombe and 
ri-Cacarambola, Welwitsch, 5977! Lower Congo: Kisantu, Gillet, 203. 
South Central. Congo Free State : Lunda; Kibanga, De Beerst. Niamniam, 
by the Mbrwole River, Schweinfurth, 3741 ! 
Schumann also refers to V. obtusa « plant collected by Goetze in the Kinga 
Mountains, South-western German East-Africa, at an altitude of 7000 ft. According 
to the collector it is a tree 45-60 ft. high with fruits as large as a head. This 
Species comes extremely near to V. Thouarsii, from which it seems to differ mainly 
in the less obtuse leaves, slightly larger calyces, and comparatively short corolla- 
tubes. The description of the flowers is drawn up from Schweinfurth’s and Wel- 
Witsch’s, that of the fruit and seeds from Scott-Elliot’s Laya specimen. The 
Cameroons plant has very narrow ieaves (4-6 in. by 1-1 in.) and (according to 
