206 LXXXIV. APOCYNACEA (STAPF). | Baissea. 
compressed near the tips, terete below. Leaves obovate, suddenly con- 
tracted into a linear or sublinear narrow acumen (about } in. long), 
more or less cuneate towards the base, 5-7 in. long, 2—3 in. broad, sub- 
coriaceous, quite glabrous ; secondary nerves 11-12 on each side, very 
. oblique, straight, like the midrib much raised below, less so (but distinctly) 
above ; transverse veins numerous, parallel, raised on both sides, subhori- 
zontal ; petiole rather stout, 3-4 lin. long. Panicles over 4 ft. long, very 
lax, pubescent below, glabrous above ; peduncle 2} in. long ; lower bracts 
at the base of the primary branches sometimes foliaceous, white, upper 
very small, lanceolate to subulate, all pubescent; lowest branches up to 3in. 
long, undivided for 2 of their length; pedicels slender, up to 4 lin. 
long. Calyx oblong-ovoid, 2 lin. long, glabrous; segments ovate- 
lanceolate or oblong, subobtuse, ciliolate, thin ; intra-calycular glands 5. 
Corolla white with red streaks in the throat; tube wide-funnel-shaped, 
3 lin. long, glabrous without and above the minute calli within ; lobes 
linear, obtuse, 7 lin. long, over 1 lin. broad. Anthers scarcely 2 lin. 
long ; connective scantily pubescent on the back. Disc distinet. Carpels 
hairy at the top. Style obconical, glabrous, much shorter than the 
conical shortly apiculate stigma, the lower edge of which projects into 
a deflexed rim.—Codonura calophylla, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 285. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Yaunde, Zenker § Staudt, 135! Lolodorf, 
Staudt, 136! 
2. B. erythrosticta, A. Schum. MSS. <A glabrous climber; 
young branches slender, greenish. Leaves lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 
long acuminate (acumen up to nearly 1 in. long), acute or minutely 
cordate at the base, 24—9 in. long, 1 1_33 in. broad, papery, pale green, 
quite glabrous; secondary nerves 7-9 on each side, very oblique. much 
raised below, channelled above ; transverse veins subhorizontal ; petiole 
1-3 lin. long, stout. Flowers in very lax few-flowered terminal and 
axillary glabrous panicles or pseudo-umbels; peduncle slender, up 1? 
1 in. long; lower bracts sometimes foliaceous, thin, upper minute, 
lanceolate ; pedicels up to 4 lin. long. Calyx 1 lin. long, nearly or quite 
glabrous ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute or subacute, thin, each with @ 
pair of glands at the base. Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube campanulate, 
not quite 1} lin. long, glabrous without and above the obscure calli 
within ; lobes long-caudate from alinear-lanceolate base, up to 8 lin. 
long. Anthers almost 1} lin. long, puberulous on the back. Dis¢ 
sinuate. Ovary pubescent at the top; style obconical, short, very 
minutely papillose ; stigma campanulate, shortly bifid at the apex. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 2278! 
3. B. ochrantha, K. Schum. MSS. A glabrous climber ; branches 
terete (except at the compressed tips), greenish. Leaves elliptic- t© 
ovate-oblong, gradually acuminate, (acumen linear, very obtuse, UP to 
2 in. long), acute at the base, 2-44 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, chartaceous 
glabrous except for tufts of rusty-coloured hairs in the nerve-axils ; 
