Isonema. | LXXXIV, APOCYNACES: (STAPF). 189 
yellowish-brown,— A. DC, Prod. viii. 415; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 
450; K. Schum. in Eng]. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 184, fig. 61, E. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 912! Samu Country, Scott-Elliot, 
4305! Sierra Leone : Bagru River, Mann, 824! Kareni to Port Lokko, Scoté- 
Elliot, 5814! Wiberia: Grand Bassa, Vogel, 65! Ansell! and without precise 
locality, Millen, 199! Gold Coast, Burton ! 
3. I. Buchholzii, “Hngl. in Lngl. Jahrb. vii. 340. An almost 
glabrous climber, 10-20 ft. high; branches terete, dark brown or black 
in a dry state, minutely rusty puberulous when young, soon quite 
glabrous. Leaves elliptic or oblong, abruptly and shortly acuminate, 
rounded at the base, 24-34 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, 
shiny above ; secondary nerves about 5-6 on each side, rather promi- 
nent; petiole 2-3 lin. long. Panicles pyramidal or subcorymbose, 
puberulous, mostly very loose, up to 6 in. long and broad: peduncle 
lin. long or hardly any; bracts very small, ovate; pedicels 2 lin. long 
or shorter. Calyx 1 lin. long, minutely pubescent; sepals ovate- 
lanceolate. Corolla red, very minutely pubescent outside; tube 4 lin. 
long; lobes: oblong, 24 lin. long; lateral appendage rather large. 
Anthers 1 lin. long. Ovary tomentose.—K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 184. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon River, Mann, 744! 2211! Mungo, 
Buchholz! Johann AlbrechtshGhe, Staudt, 481! 
Mann describes the corolla as red, Engler as white. 
32, FUNTUMIA, Stapf in Proc. Linn. Soc. 1900, 2, and in Hook. 
Ie. Pl. tt. 2694-2695. 
Calyx small, subcoriaceous, with flattened glands inside the base ; 
Sepals 5, imbricate, almost free, broad, more or less obtuse. Corolla 
salver-shaped ; tube widened at or just above the middle, very thick and 
fleshy in the upper part; mouth very narrow, naked ; lobes linear to 
oblong, overlapping to the right. Stamens 5, inserted at the middle of 
the corolla-tube; filaments very short, stout; anthers conniving in 
@ cone, included, lanceolate, acuminate, sagittate; appendages about as 
long as the polliniferous part, stout, shortly tailed; foot of connective 
broad, convex, with a tongue-shaped projection from the middle and a 
‘inutely tomentose cushion below passing over the filament into the 
hairy filamental ridge. Disc tubular, 5-lobed or 5-partite, fleshy. 
Carpels free, truncate, abruptly contracted into the style, exserted 
from or shorter than the disc; style filiform ; stigma ovoid-clavate, 
»-grooved, obscurely apiculate, adnate to the projection of the foot of 
the connective, profusely exuding glutinous matter; ovules numerous, 
multiseriate, Mericarps 2, follicular, divaricate, oblong to spindle- 
Shaped, coriaceous or woody. Seeds spindle-shaped with a plumose 
awn; endosperm fleshy, thin; cotyledons contortuplicate.— 
©€8, sometimes very tall. Leaves opposite, coriaceous ; axillary 
