214 LXXXIV, APOCYNACEA (STAPF). | Baissea. 
furfuraceous tomentum, soon glabrous. Leaves lanceolate to elliptic, 
obtusely acuminate, acute at the base, 2-3 in. long, 3-2 in. broad, sub- 
coriaceous, quite glabrous except in the nerve-axils; secondary nerves 
oblique, 8-10 on each side ; transverse veins close and fine, subhorizontal ; 
petiole slender, up to 6 lin. long. Flowers in axillary and terminal, 
mostly peduncled pseudo-umbels or short panicles, up to 2 in. long, 
covered like the remainder of the inflorescence with the same kind of 
tomentum as the young branches; bracts minute, ovate, acute ; pedicels 
up to 2 lin. long. Calyx semiglobose, very minutely tomentose, } lin. 
long; sepals ovate, obtuse; intra-calycular glands 5, Corolla short 
funnel-shaped, very minutely furfuraceous without; tube scarcely 
1} lin, long, glabrous in the throat; supra-staminal calli transversely 
linear ; lobes rather thick, ovate-lanceolate, as long as the tube or 
slightly longer. Staminal cone reaching to the corolla-mouth ; anthers 
glabrous on the back. Disc sinuous. Carpels puberulous on the top; 
style obconical, minutely papillose; stigma campanulate, with a setiform 
apiculus.—Stapf in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2243; Hua in Bull. Soe. Linn. 
Paris, 2 sér. 1. 11. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Bagru River, Mann, 854! 
18. B. tenuiloba, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 124. An erect 
or climbing shrub, 12-20 ft. high ; branches long and slender, covered 
with a very minute dark rusty furfuraceous tomentum when young, 
soon glabrous. Leaves oblong to oblong-elliptic, acuminate (acumen 
obtuse, up to 8 lin. long), acute, rarely rounded at the base, 24-44 in. 
long, 14-2 in. broad, thinly subcoriaceous, quite glabrous, except for 
tufts of rufous hairs in the nerve-axils; secondary nerves 6-8 on each 
side, oblique ; transverse veins very fine, close, subhorizontal ; petiole 
slender, up to 6 lin. long. Cymes subumbelliform, few-flowered, 
arranged in slender axillary and terminal panicles, usually sessile of 
on short branches on the common rhachis, covered more or less with 
the same kind of tomentum as the young branches, panicles up to 3 in. 
long; bracts minute, shortly lanceolate ; pedicels 14 lin. long. Calyx 
semiglobose, minutely black-furfuraceous, ? lin. long ; sepals ovate, 
subacute, or obtuse; intra-calycular glands 5. Corolla dark purple 
violet, whitish in the centre, subcampanulate; tube 14-1? lin. long, 
very minutely furfuraceous without; throat glabrous ; supra-stamina 
calli transversely linear, distinct ; lobes long-caudate, acuminate from 
an ovate base, 4-6 lin. long. Anthers not quite 1 lin. long, wit 
spreading hairs on the back. Disc very shallow, sinuate. Carpels 
puberulous at the top; style obconical, short and stout, minutely 
papillose; stigma campanulate, with a setiform bifid apex.—Hua 1? 
Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 2 sér. i. 10. B. wropetala, Hua, lc. 12. Guerkes 
uropetala, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 228. 
Upper Guinea. Niger Delta: Bonny River, Mann, 504! Kalbreyer, 73! 
Cameroons: Cameroon River, Mann, 2187! Bipinde, Zenker, 1627! Yaunde, 
Zenker, 722 (ex Schumann), 
Flowers sometimes occur with the tails of the corolla-lobes not developed. Such 
flowers are very like those of B. elliptica. De Wild. & Durand quote (Reliq- 
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