Holarrhena. } LXXXIV. APOCYNACE# (STAPF). 165 
out, white, fragrant ; tube 34—4 lin. long, very slender; lobes obovate- 
oblong, 2-24 lin. long. Anthers mucronulate, over } lin. long; basal 
tips of cells very short, scarcely decurrent; filament } lin. long. 
Follicles up to more than 12 in. long. Seeds linear-oblong, slightly 
narrowed at the upper end, 6 lin. long or slightly longer, hair-tuft 
2} in. long.—Z. africana, Wulfsberg, Holarrh. Afr. Inaug. Diss. with 
plates ; L. Planchon, Prod. Apoc. 185; Morris in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 
245; 1896, 47-49 partly; K. Schum. in Schlechter, Westafr. Kaut- 
schuk-Exped. 306. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Aburi, Brown, 682! Kwahu, Johnson, 654! 
Accra, Hornberger (ex Wulfsberg); and without precise locality, Brown, 326! 
Togo: Badja, Schlechter, 12969; Waya, Hornberger (ex Wulfsberg); Agatineo, 
near the Todjie River, Merz (ex Wulfsberg). Lagos: Ilaro, Millen, 112! 114! 
Abeokuta, Irving! Barter, 3334! Ikorodu, Schlechter, 12296. Ibadan Forest 
reserve, Punch / and without precise locality, Denton / Moloney! Rowland ! 
: This species yields, according to Wulfsberg, a valuable antidote against dysentery. 
Vernacular name on the Gold Coast Kromi or Gbomi, in Lagos Jreno or male Ire. 
It is very like H. africana; but the inflorescence is usually less hairy, the calyx 
distinctly smaller, the. flowers more slender with a slightly smaller limb, and scarcely 
decurrent basal anther points. 
29. PLEIOCERAS, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i, 759. 
Calyx small ; sepals 5, free or almost free, obtuse, imbricate, 
alternating with scale-like glands. Corolla salver-shaped; tube cylin- 
dric, short, with numerous variously shaped appendages in the mouth ; 
lobes overlapping to the left, obtuse. Stamens inserted in the mouth 
of the corolla ; anthers conniving in a cone, exserted, lanceolate, acute, 
sagittate; wings rather thin with thick incurved margins; tails 
slender, long, incurved ; foot of connective rather flat, with a decurrent 
dense tuft of hairs in the centre; filaments distinct, filiform, passing 
into long slender slightly projecting ridges on the corolla-tube. Disc 
0. Carpels 2, free; style filiform ; stigma capitate with a small basal 
frill and a minute cleft tip agglutinated to the hair-tuft of the anthers. 
Ovules pluriseriate, numerous. Follicles cylindric, slender, subparallel. 
Seeds spindle-shaped, covered all over with long soft silky hairs, 
densest at the base; endosperm fleshy, scanty; cotyledons convolute ; 
radicle short.—Shrubs with slender branches. Leaves herbaceous, 
Opposite, with distant nerves; axillary stipules 0; axillary glands 
minute, subulate, very scanty. Flowers small, in terminal minutely 
bracteate many-flowered panicles. 
Species 3, endemic. 
Pleioceras is closely allied to Wrightia, of which I know only one species from 
Africa (Natal). It differs in the small flowers and the seeds, which have not a dis- 
tinct basal tuft of hairs, but are covered all over with long silky soft hairs, which 
re densest at and near the base. The hairs are, in the follicle, directed towards 
© apex, 
Corolla-scales 10, 5 opposite to and 5 alternate with 
the lobes, all from the mouth. . 
Scales ciliate; pedicels up to 10 lin, long ° see ee Afzelii. 
Scales glabrous ; pedicels up to 5 lin. long. . 2. P. Barterv. 
