212 LXXXIV. APOCYNACE# (STAPF). [ Baissea. 
glaucous, glabrous or very minutely pubescent on the midrib ; secondary 
nerves 5—7 on each side, fine; transverse veins inconspicuous (though 
distinct under a lens); petiole slender, up to 2 lin. long. Cymes few- 
flowered, contracted, axillary and terminal; peduncles very slender, up 
to 4 lin. long; bracts minute; pedicels up to 1 lin. long. Calyx 
minutely and scantily pubescent, 1 lin, long; intra-calycular glands 6, 
minute; sepals broad-ovate, obtuse. Corolla dirty white with purple 
streaks in the throat, funnel-shaped, glabrous without ; tube 2 lin. long, 
glabrous in the throat ; supra-staminal calli minute, transversely linear; 
lobes linear from an ovate base, gradually tapering, 3 lin. long. 
Staminal cone reaching almost to the corolla-mouth ; anthers 1} lin. 
long, minutely silky on the back. Disc shallow, sinuate. Carpels 
minutely puberulous on the top; style minutely papillose, obconical ; 
stigma with a short conical bifid apiculus—K. Schum. in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Ergiinz. 59. Perinerion Welwitschii, Baill. in 
Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 758; K.Schum. Le. iv. ii. 174. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; outskirts of forests on the 
mountains of Alto Queta, rather rare, Welwitsch, 5932 ! 
14. B. odorata, K. Schum. MSS. A climbing shrub, quite 
glabrous except the inflorescences; young branches compressed, later 
on terete, greyish-brown. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, gradually acu- 
minate (acumen obtuse, up to 4 in. long), acute to subcuneate at the 
base, 2-24 in. long, ?-1 in. broad, almost papery; secondary nerves 
6—8 on each side, oblique, fine; transverse veins at very acute angles 
with the secondary nerves ; petiole 14-2 lin. long, slender. Panicles 
very lax, short, terminal and lateral, the terminal subcorymbiform 
about 1-114 in. long, the lower often reduced to 3-—1-flowered cymes, 
adpressedly and minutely pubescent in all parts; branches filiform ; 
bracts minute, lanceolate; pedicels very slender, up to 9 lin. long. 
Calyx subsemiglobose, 2~3 lin. long, adpressedly pubescent, blackish ; 
sepals rotundate-ovate; intra-calycular glands 5, distinct, though 
small. Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube subcampanulate, 23 lin. long, finely 
pubescent without; throat glabrous; supra-staminal calli transversely 
linear, more or less united into a ring; lobes linear, subobtuse, 3 jin. 
long. Anthers 2 lin. long, pubescent on the back. Dise shallow, 
sinuate. Ovary-top black-pubescent. Style very short, obconle, 
minutely puberulous; stigma semiglobose-campanulate with a slender 
bifid apex. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 2072! 
15. B. ogowensis. Hua in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 2 sé. i, 10. 
A powerful climbing shrub, quite glabrous except the inflorescences an 
nerve-axils; young branches compressed near the tips, soon a 
blackish when dry. Leaves oblong, acuminate (acumen rather broa 
subacute or obtuse, 2—4 lin. long), acute at the base, 24-34 sae 
14-1} in. broad, papery, with small tufts of rust-coloured hairs in the 
nerve-axils below ; seccndary nerves 10-12 on each side, with almost 
