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Voucanga. | LXXXIV. APOCYNACE (STAPF). 155: 
rather stout, 2 in. long; bracts ovoid, acute or acuminate, 6 lin. long ; 
pedicels rather slender, 3-7 lin. long. Calyx subcampanulate, 7-9 lin. 
long, subherbaceous, with numerous small glands about 2 lin. above the 
base; lobes broad-oblong, obtuse, almost as long as the tube, at last, 
spreading or reflexed. Corolla sulphur-yellow ; tube stout, 7 lin. long, 
constricted at the middle, twisted; lobes broad, obovate-oblong, some- 
what oblique, 9-12 lin. long. Stamens inserted above the middle ; 
anthers 34-4 lin. long, tips scarcely exserted, tails rather long. Disc 
fleshy, annular, much shorter than the carpels. Style 3} lin. long. 
Berries (one often abortive) of the shape and size of a small apple, some- 
what oblique, 2 in. in diam., with curved longitudinal ridges ; pericarp 
coriaceous when dry. Seeds about 3 lin. long; testa finely punctate, 
longitudinal grooves distinct and honeycombed or more or less obscure 
externally.—V. africana, var. ? Stapf in Journ. Linn, Soc. xxx. 88. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: banks of the Como River, 75 miles east of 
Gaboon, Bates, 461! Angola : Golungo Alto; Quibixe Mountains, and near 
Canguerasange and Quilombo, Welwitsch, 5979 ! 5980: forests of Alto Queta, Wel- 
witsch, 5981! and fruits, 720! 721! 
4. V. Schweinfurthii, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 21. A 
glabrous shrub, 15 ft. high; branches slender, pallid, or the youngest 
blackish when dry. Leaves oblanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acute or 
subacuminate, long attenuate and acute or the lower rounded at the 
base, 5-8 in. long, 13-24 in. broad, papery ; secondary nerves 9-14 on 
each side, very oblique, gently curved ; petiole up to 5 lin. long (then 
the leaf-base always acute) or none. Inflorescences geminate from the 
young branch-forks, umbelliform, few-fowered, sometimes nodding ; 
peduncle slender, 14-3 in. long; bracts oblong, caducous ; pedicels 
slender, 6-12 lin. long. Calyx subcampanulate, 7-8 lin. long, with a 
transverse zone of scattered glands about 14 lin. above the base ; lobes 
broad-ovate, obtuse, spreading or reflexed, about as long as the tube. 
Corolla yellow ; tube stout, constricted at the middle and mouth, searcely 
6 lin. long, finely tomentose on the broad filamental ridges, and delicately 
papillose below ; lobes obliquely obovate, subacuminate, almost 1 in. long. 
Stamens inserted above the middle; anthers 3 lin. long, tips shortly 
exserted, tails long. Disc annular, surrounding the ovary to almost half 
their height. Style 3} lin. long. Berries “ ovoid, pulp yellow ” (Schwein- 
furth).—K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 317 (excl. Stuhlmann’s 
plant 2). 
ooo Central. Congo Free State: Niamniam; Yuru River, Schweinfurth, 
The plant figured as V. Schweinfurthii in De Wild. & Durand, Ill. Fl. Congo, 
t. 39, is a pubescent state of V. africana, Stuhlmann’s specimen from Quilimane 
(i. 710), referred to V. Schweinfurthii by Schumann, L.c., belongs very probably to 
some other species, but which I cannot suy. The V. Schweinfurthii mentioned by 
De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, fase. ii. 40, as collected by Demeuse near 
Bangala on the middle Congo, is equally doubtful. 
5. V. spectabilis, Stapf. A much branched shrub, 5-7 ft. high; 
branches rather stout, softly and densely pubescent when young, then 
glabrescent, pale greyish. Leaves sessile or subsessile, broadly ovate or 
