Pycnobotrya. | LXXXIV. APOCYNACES (STAPF). 203° 
2. P. multiflora, K. Schum. MSS. Branches terete, very finely 
rusty-tomentose when young, soon glabrescent and black when dry. 
Leaves opposite or ternate, oblong to oblanceolate or obovate, 2-4 in. 
long, ?-14 in. broad, acute or subcuneate at the base, abruptly and ob- 
tusely acuminate, glabrous and shining above, dotted with black glands. 
below ; secondary nerves scarcely 1 lin. distant, with fainter parallel 
veins between; nervation slightly prominent and much more conspicuous 
above; petiole slender, 2-3 lin. long. Inflorescence corymbose, about 
lin. long, much overtopped by the uppermost pair of leaves, finely 
rusty- or fusco-tomentose all over; peduncles up to 9 lin. long; bracts 
very minute; pedicels up to 4-3 lin. long. Calyx not quite 4 lin. long. 
Corolla glabrous, 3 lin. long in the mature bud, purple (?) ; tube { lin.. 
long ; anthers slightly over 4 lin. long. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 1274! 2063! 
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38. BAISSEA, A. DC.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 719. 
Calyx small, herbaceous to subcoriaceous, eglandular within or 
usually with 5 intracalycular glands; sepals 5, almost free, imbricate, 
ovate-lanceolate to rotundate. Corolla funnel-shaped or campanulate ;. 
tube widest or slightly constricted at the mouth, usually with fleshy 
projecting calli or scales just above the insertion of the stamens and 
dense obversely triangular patches of white reflexed hairs between 
them, otherwise without appendages ; lobes 5, mostly very narrow, 
overlapping to the right. Stamens inserted above the base of the 
corolla-tube ; filaments very short, stout; anthers conniving in a cone, 
not exceeding the corolla-tube, lanceolate, acuminate, sagittate ; 
appendages about as long as the polliniferous part, distinctly tailed ; 
foot of connective hollowed and glabrous above, with a cushion of 
dense hairs below passing over the filament into the short hairy fila- 
mental ridge. Disc cupular, subtruncate, sinuate or 5-lobed. Carpels 
2, slightly inferior, free, subtruncate, usually hairy; style short, 
obconical (or cylindric at the base); stigma campanulate with 5 pits 
(exuding glutinous matter) in the middle, and with a short or long and 
subulate apiculus ; ovules numerous, pluriseriate. Mericarps follicular, 
usually cylindric, very slender. Seeds linear-lanceolate, truncate at the 
tip, acute at the base, with a deciduous apical coma; endosperm fleshy, 
rather copious ; cotyledons flat ; radicle short.—Tall climbing shrubs. 
ves opposite ; secondary nerves distinct, numerous and fine ; trans- 
verse veins more or less conspicuous; axillary stipules and glands 0. 
Flowers in terminal and axillary, sometimes leafy panicles or corymbs, 
Composed of few-flowered cymes, rarely in short few-flowered cymes ; 
corollas white or purple. 
Species 21, endemic. 
This description excludes the Indian and Malayan species referred by some 
authors to Baissea. They constitute a distinct genus, Cleghornia, Wight (See Hua 
in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 2 sér. i. 9, 12). 
Hua (in Compt. Rend. Acad. Paris, exxxiv. 856-858) has pointed out the close 
affinity of Zygodia axillaris, Benth, one of the species on which the genus Zygodia 
