Baissea. ] LXXXIV. APOCYNACES (STAPF). 213 
parallel tertiary ones between them and the transverse veins, sub- 
horizontal; nervation and reticulation slightly raised on both sides, 
faint ; petioles slender, 4—9 lin. long. Cymes few- or many-flowered, in 
axillary or terminal usually ovoid or obovoid panicles, very minutely 
furfuraceous, blackish ; peduncles very slender, 4-9 lin. long; bracts 
minute; pedicels filiform, up to 1} lin. long. Calyx globose-ovoid, 
% lin. long; sepals ovate, subacute, with a scanty extremely delicate 
tomentum like that of the pedicels; intra-calycular glands 5, minute. 
Corolla white with crimson streaks in the throat, funnel-shaped ; tube 
subcampanulate, not quite 1} lin. long, minutely papillose without, 
glabrous in the throat, calli transversely linear, more or less united into 
aring; lobes linear, obtuse, over 2 lin. long. Anthers not quite 1 lin. 
long, minutely papillose on the back. Disc shallow, sinuate. Ovary- 
top pubescent; style obconical, rather slender, puberulous ; stigma 
campanulate, with a long bifid subulate apex.—Hua in Compt. Rend. 
Acad. Paris, exxxiv. 857. 
Lower Guinea. French Congo: Adalina, on the River Ogowe, Soyaus, 
278! Gaboon: Libreville, Klaine, 9! and without precise locality, Klaine, 
305! 
16. B. leonensis, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 452. A climbing 
shrub; branches covered with a very fine dark rusty furfuraceous 
tomentum when young, soon glabrescent. Leaves oblong, rarely 
elliptic, acuminate at both ends or acute at the base, 24-4} in. long, 
{+1} in. broad, subcoriaceous, perfectly glabrous, rarely with tufts of 
hairs in the nerve-axils ; secondary nerves 8-12 on each side, raised on 
both surfaces; transverse veins very close and fine, raised on both 
surfaces; petiole slender, 3-6 lin. long. Panicles few- to many- 
flowered, axillary and terminal, the lower often much reduced, the 
upper more compound; peduncles very slender, up to 4 in. long, 
covered like the rest of the inflorescence with the same kind of tomen- 
tum as the young branches; bracts small, shortly lanceolate ; pedicels 
up to 1} lin. long. Calyx subsemiglobose, $ lin. long, minutely fur- 
furaceous ; sepals ovate, acute; intra-calycular glands 9. Corolla white, 
with red streaks in the throat, funnel-shaped ; tube 2 lin. long, minutely 
furfuraceous without, glabrous in the throat; supra-staminal calli 
short, thick, transversely linear ; lobes lanceolate, 2 lin. long. Staminal 
cone almost reaching to the corolla-mouth ; anthers 1 lin. long, glabrous 
on the back. Disc faint, sinuous. Carpels puberulous from the disc 
upwards; style obconic, papillose; stigma campanulate with a fine 
subulate bifid apiculus—K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
lv. ii. 172; Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 89; Hua in Bull. Soc. 
Linn. Paris, 2 sér. i. 10. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: highlands about Bafodeya, Scott-Elliot, 
5500! and without precise locality, Don! Vogel! 119! Gold Coast: Aburi Hills, 
Johnson, 283! Aquapim, 1400 ft., Murphy in Herb. Johnson, 674! 
_17. B. brachyantha, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 125. A 
climbing shrub ; young branches covered with a very fine, dark, rusty 
