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secondary nerves 4—6 on each side, channelled above, the lowest 2-3 on 
each side conspicuous, very oblique and strongly curved, the upper faint, 
almost straight ; tertiary nerves and transverse veins slightly oblique ; 
petiole 2—3 lin. long. Cymes 3-1-flowered, terminal, glabrous ; peduncle 
very slender 3-? in. long; bracts minute, deciduous; pedicels filiform, 
$-1 in. long. Calyx semiglobose, blackish, ? lin. long, glabrous ; 
segments rotundate, margins subhyaline; intra-calycular glands 5, dis- 
tinct. Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube campanulate, 34 lin. long, glabrous 
without and above the ovate calli within; lobes linear from a lanceolate 
base, obtuse, 5 lin. long, 1 lin. broad. Anthers over 14 lin. long, 
minutely villous on the back. Disc distinct, sinuous. Ovary pubescent 
at the top; style obconic-cylindric, 3 lin. long, minutely puberulous ; 
stigma campanulate-conic with a short bifid apex. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 2044! 
4. B. Wulfhorstii, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 816. A 
climbing shrub; young branches finely rufo-pubescent, at length 
glabrescent, reddish-brown. Leaves lanceolate to ovate- or elliptic- 
oblong, obtuse or subacute, rounded at the base, 4-14 in. long, 3-54 
lin. broad, at length coriaceous, finely pubescent when young, soon 
glabrescent ; secondary nerves very faint, 10-11 on each side; petiole 
up to ¢ lin. long, pubescent. Flowers in (often very numerous) 2-1- 
owered axillary cymes or the uppermost cymes gathered into a small 
pinicle ; peduncle filiform, very short to 4 in. long, densely rufo-pubes- 
cent like the whole inflorescence ; bracts subulate, up to 1 lin. long ; 
pedicels up to 24 lin. long. Calyx open, rufo-pubescent, up to 1} lin. 
long, eglandular ; sepals oblong-linear, obtuse. Corolla sweet-scented, 
white; tube wide funnel-shaped up to 2 lin. long, pubescent without, 
glabrous within and streaked with red above the rather obscure calli; 
lobes linear, up to 10 lin. long. Anthers 2 lin. long, minutely pubes- 
cent on the back. Disc very shallow, sinuate. Ovary sparingly hairy 
on the top; style cylindric below, thickened above, delicately papillose; 
stigma campanulate-conic with a short bifid apiculus. Follicles glabrous, 
7 in, long.— B. spectabilis, Hua in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 2 sér, i. 10. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla, Autunes, 391; by the Cunene River 
below its junction with the River Chitanda, 3600 ft., Bawm, 118! Amboland : 
Ompanda, Wulfhorst, 2! 
South Central. Angola ?: Upper Zambesi, Jalla ! 
». B. multiflora, A. DC. Prod. viii. 424. A climber, 60 to 
80 ft. high ; young branches slender, more or less rusty- or fulvo- 
tomentose, ultimately glabrescent. Leaves elliptic to oblong, shortly 
or obscurely acuminate, rounded or more or less acute at the base, 1}- 
33 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, chartaceous, finely rusty tomentose all over 
in bud, very soon glabrescent above and between the nerves below, at 
length Sometimes quite glabrous except for small tufts of hairs in the 
nerve-axils ; secondary nerves 5-7 on each side, channelled above ; 
Tansverse veins fine, but distinct ; petiole 1—2} lin. long. Panicles 
