Baissea. | LXXXIV. APOCYNACE® (STAPF). 211 
ovate- or obovate-oblong, very shortly acute or subobtuse, truncate at 
the base, 1-2? in. long, 6-10 lin. broad, papery, scantily hairy on the 
nerves below when young, soon quite glabrous except for small tufts of 
hairs in the nerve-axils; secondary nerves about 6-7 on each side, 
raised below, faint above; transverse veins delicate; petiole 4—} lin. 
long, rufo-tomentose. Panicles axillary and terminal, few-flowered, not 
or scarcely exceeding the supporting leaves, finely rufo-pubescent ; 
peduncle very slender, up to #in. long; bracts minute, ovate, acute ; 
pedicels up to 2 lin. long. Calyx slightly over 1 lin. long, sparingly 
pubescent; sepals ovate-oblong, acute; intra-calycular glands 5, 
minute. Corolla funnel-shaped, very minutely pubescent without ; 
tube 14-2 lin. long, glabrous in the throat, supra-staminal calli trans- 
versely oblong ; lobes lanceolate-linear, as long as or slightly longer 
than the tube; staminal cone not quite reaching the mouth; anthers 
¢ lin. long, glabrous on the back. Disc shallow. Carpels pubescent on 
the top; style obconic, minutely papillose; stigma campanulate, with a 
subulate 2-fid apiculus.—Oncinotis zygodioides, K. Schum, in Engl. 
Jahrb, xxiii, 227, 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 
12. B. Baillonii, Hua in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 2 sér. i. 8, 11. 
A climbing shrub; young branches finely rufo-tomentose, soon glabres- 
cent, very slender. Leaves oblong, subacuminate, truncate at the 
base, very variable in size, up to 3 in. long and 10 lin. broad, papery, 
very sparingly pubescent on the nerves below or finally quite glabrous 
except in the nerve-axils ; secondary nerves 6-8 on each side; trans- 
verse veins very delicate; petiole } lin. long, minutely rufo-tomentose. 
Panicles terminal, leafy, obovoid, up to 3 in. long, or more reduced 
from the leaf-axils, more or less dichotomous, finely rusty-tomentose or 
furfuraceous ; bracts small, ovate-lanceolate ; pedicels up to 2 lin. long. 
Calyx } lin. long, minutely pubescent; sepals ovate, subacute ;_ intra- 
calycular glands minute, abuut 3. Corolla campanulate, very minutely 
puberulous without; tube wide, 1} lin. long, glabrous in the throat ; 
supra-staminal calli triangular; lobes ovate-lanceolate, as long as the 
tube. Staminal cone almost reaching to the mouth; anthers minutely 
pubescent on the back. Disc sinuous. Carpels pubescent on the top; 
style obconic-cylindric, glabrous below, papillose above; stigma de- 
pressed-campanulate, with a bifid short apiculus. Follicles very slender, 
up to 3 ft. long, sparingly furfuraceous, constricted between the seeds. 
Seeds 3 in, long.—Hua in Compt. Rend. Acad. Paris, exxxiv. 857. 
Lower Guinea. French Congo: banks of the River Ogowe, Thollon, 262! 
near Lambarene, on the River Ogowe, Thollon, 711! 
13. B. Welwitschii, Stapf ex Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 
675. A graceful, copiously lactescent climber; young branches very 
slender, minutely pubescent, pale green when dry. Leaves obovate or 
elliptic, acuminate (acumen slender, up to 4 lin. long), usually acute at 
the base, 2-21 in. long, #-1 in, broad, papery, pole green, almost 
