208 LXXXIV. APOCYNACE (STAPF). [ Baissea. 
slender, pyramidal, 2-15 in. long, finely rusty- or fulvo-tomentose ; 
lowest bracts sometimes foliaceous and coloured, upper small, lanceolate 
to subulate, 1-2 lin. long; pedicels very short or up to 4 lin. long. 
Calyx 1-1} lin. long, puberulous to minutely tomentose ; sepals lanceo- 
late, acute or obtuse, eglandular. Corolla white, funnel-shaped; tube sub- 
campanulate, 2—3 lin. long, puberulous without, scantily pubescent 
within in the upper part; supra-staminal calli ovate, distinct ; lobes 
linear-lanceolate to linear, long tapering, 5-7 lin. long. Staminal cone 
not quite 1 lin. long, reaching to or beyond the middle of the corolla- 
tube ; anthers more or less hairy on the back. Style puberulous, obconic 
from a cylindric base; stigma with a short bifid apiculus; ovary 
pubescent. Follicles finely rusty tomentose, up to 16 in. long, obtuse. 
Seeds 8 lin. long; coma reddish, 1-1} in. long. —Hook. Niger Fl. 452; 
K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 172; Hua in Bull. 
Soc. Linn. Paris, 2 sér. i. 7, 9; Chevalier, Géogr. Bot. Sénégal, 228. 
Hua in Compt. Rend. Acad. Paris, exxxiv. 856, 857. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: in the forests of Ferlo, Heudelot, 186! Cape 
Nase, Doilinger, 45! Gambia: Albreda, Perrotet, 480! on the south bank of the 
River Gambia, Brown-Lester, 14! and without precise locality, Whitfield ! Rio 
Nunez, Whitfield! Futa Jallon, Heudelot, 601! 597! 
Var. 8 caudiloba, Stapf. Leaves slightly larger, thinner and more acuminate 
than in the type, quite glabrous except in the nerve-axils. Anthers and style very 
sparingly hairy.—B. caudiloba, Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc, xxx. 90; Hua in Bull. 
Soc. Linn. Paris, 2 sér, i. 10. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Ninia, Talla Hills, Scott-Elliot, 4807 ! 
Var. caudiloba is perhaps only a particularly glabrous state of B. multiflora. 
The other extreme is represented by Hua’s B. Heudelotii (Bull. Soc. Linn, Paris, 
2 sér. i. 9), although it is less marked off from the type. The leaves of the type 
specimen of B. multiflora are not glabrous, as described by A. De Candolle. 
6. B. laxiflora, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 124. A graceful 
climber up to 39 ft. high; branches very slender, minutely puberulous 
when young. Leaves oblanceolate or oblong, acuminate, acute OF 
cuneate at the base, up to 3 in. long, 1 in. broad, papery, quite glabrous 
except for small tufts of hairsin the nerve-axils ; secondary nerves about 
5 on each side, slender; transverse veins faint, subhorizontal ; petiole 
-up to 2 lin. long. Cymes 3—1-flowered, axillary on very short peduncles 
or very loosely arranged in axillary and terminal panicles, branch 
from the base, up to 4 in. long, very minutely puberulous; rhachis a? 
branches subcapillary ; pedicels very slender, up to 24 lin. long; bracts 
minute, ovate. Calyx very minutely pubescent, ? lin. long, eglandular; 
sepals ovate, subacute. Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube subeampanulate, 
very minutely puberulous without, villous in the throat, 14-23 lin. 
long, supra-staminal calli much projecting, almost cornute; lobes 
lanceolate from a subauriculate base 3-4 lin. long. Anthers not quite 
1 lin. long, pubescent on the back. Carpels hairy at the top; style 
rather slender, obconic-cylindric, minutely puberulous; stigma SY” 
campanulate with a short bifid apiculus. Follicles very slender, 02 2 ” 
more than 2 ft. long; seeds linear, 1 in. long; coma 1 in. long—St@ 
