164 LXXXIV, APOCYNACE (STAPF). | Holarrhena. 
ovate or ovate-lanceolate, subacute, the inner two with 2-1 gland near 
the base. Corolla puberulous without; tube 34-4} lin. long; lobes 
slightly shorter than the tube. Anthers apiculate, } lin. long, cells very 
shortly decurrent. Follicles up to 14 ft. long. Seeds lanceolate, 5} lin. 
long, coma 2 in. long.—Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 450; K. Schum. in 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 138. 
Upper Guinea. Gambia: banks of the Gambia, Ozanne, 9! and without 
precise locality, Brown Lister / Whitfield! French Guinea: Rio Nunez, Heudelot, 
795! (1795 according to De Candolle). 
4, H. africana, 4. DC. Prod. viii. 414. A shrub or small tree; 
young branches glabrous, rarely very sparingly pubescent, blackish 
when dry, older ones paler, with numerous conspicuous lenticels, terete. 
Leaves ovate to oblong, acuminate to subobtuse, acute or subacute at 
the base, 2-3} in. long, 14-1} in. broad, always quite glabrous; 
secondary nerves 8-10 on each side; petiole 2-24 lin. long. Corymbs 
terminal on short lateral few-leaved or leafless shoots, sometimes over- 
topped by a young long shoot, subsessile, dense, 14-2 in. in diam., 
minutely greyish pubescent to minutely tomentose ; peduncle 1-2 in. 
long; pedicels slender, 1-4 lin. long. Calyx greyish pubescent to 
tomentose, 1-1} lin. long, eglandular; sepals ovate-lanceolate, subacute. 
Corolla puberulous without; tube 3-4 lin. long; lobes slightly shorter 
than the tube. Anthers bluntly apiculate; decurrent cell-tips over 
3 lin. long; filaments } lin. long. Follicles 12 in. long. Seeds oblong, 
somewhat beaked, 44 lin. long ; coma 14-2 in. long.—Benth. in Hook. 
Niger Fl, 450; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 138; 
Morris in Kew Bulletin, 1896, 47-49 partly. Rondeletia floribunda, 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 516. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea: Bayabaya, by the River Scarcies, Scott-Elliot, 
4290! near Laya, Scott-Elliot, 4469! Sierra Leone: Bagru River, Mann, 884! 
Falaba, Scott-Elliot, 5180! and without precise locality, Afzelius ; Don! Barter if 
H., floribunda—a name adopted by Durand & Schinz (Etudes FI. Congo, i. 190) 
and K, Schum. (in Durand & De Wild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 122) for 
H. africana—from the lower Congo is very likely H. congolensis. It is stated to 
have been collected by Laurent on the carayan routes on the lower Congo. 
5. H. Wulfsbergii, Stapf. A middle-sized tree with slender, 
somewhat nodding branches; young branches drying black, glabrous, 
ultimately dotted with numerous pale lenticels. Leaves elliptic or 
elliptic-oblong, rarely ovate, more or less broadly and shortly acuminate, 
rarely subobtuse, 3-5 in. long, 14-2} in. broad, membranous, glabrous 
or sometimes with short white hairs in some of the nerve-axils below; 
secondary nerves 8-11 on each side; petiole slender, 14-2} lin. long. 
Corymbs subsessile, dense, semiglobose, 14-21 in. in diam., terminal on 
very short, often (at the time of flowering) leafless branchlets or ovet 
topped by a young shoot from the axil of the uppermost leaf, and then 
pseudo-lateral, more or less finely puberulous ; peduncle up to 2 liv. 
long ; pedicels slender, up to 4 lin. long. Calyx sparingly or more or 
less densely minutely tomentose, eglandular within; sepals ovate, sub- 
acute, 4-1 lin. Jong. Corolla glabrous or more or less puberulous with- 
