Baissea. | LXXXIV. APOCYNACE# (STAPF). 215 
Dewevr. 157) Guerkea uropetala, as collected by Dewévre near Wangata on the 
Middle Congo. Dewévre, in a note cited in the same place, describes the plant as a 
decumbent shrub with red flowers growing on ant-hills. 
19. B. elliptica, Stapf. A climbing shrub, quite glabrous, except 
the inflorescences and sometimes the nerve-axils ; young branches com- 
pressed, at length terete, fuscous when dry. Leaves elliptic to ovate, 
rarely oblong-elliptic, acutely or subacutely acuminate, shortly acute or 
rounded at the base, 2-3 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, papery or thinly 
coriaceous, quite glabrous, rarely with small tufts of rufous hairs in. the 
nerve-axils; secondary nerves 5—7 on each side, oblique, faint; trans- 
verse veins subhorizontal, obscure; petiole 4-6 lin. long, slender. 
Cymes subumbelliform, gathered in lax more or less divaricate axillary 
and terminal panicles; lower panicles more slender and very loose, up to 
3in. long, the upper often paired, the terminal 3-—4-nate, more com- 
pound, 1-2 in. long, all finely blackish-furfuraceous; peduncles up to 
lin. long, very slender ; bracts minute; pedicels filiform up to 1 lin. 
long. Calyx campanulate-ovoid, ? lin. long, finely furfuraceous ; sepals 
ovate, subacute, intra-calycular glands 5. Corolla finely papillose without, 
campanulate ; tube 13—2 lin. long, glabrous within above the transverse 
subsemicircular calli; lobes subulate-linear, from a broader base, about 
as long as the tube or rather shorter. Anthers not quite 1 lin. long, 
minutely papillose on the back otherwise glabrous or with 1 or 2 hairs. 
Disc shallow, sinuous. Ovary-top pubescent; style short, obconical, 
papillose ; stigma campanulate, with a subulate apex. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Yaunde, Zenker § Staudt, 722! Bipinde, 
Zenker, 12574! 1286! 
K. Schumann quotes “ Zenker, 722” from Yaunde as the type of his Guerkea 
uropetala. A specimen, however, of Zenker & Staudt 722 from Yaunde, received as 
Guerkea uropetala from Berlin does not answer to the description of that species, as 
it has corollas half as long with lobes rather shorter than the tube, not conspicuously 
longer, Possibly the label was misplaced. 
20. B. dichotoma, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 125. A climbing 
shrub ; young branches minutely rusty-furfuraceous, soon glabrescent. 
Leaves oblong-elliptic, gradually tapering into a long acute or sub- 
obtuse acumen, acute at the base, up to 4 in. long and 1} in. broad, 
subcoriaceous, fulvo-tomentose in bud, soon quite glabrous except for tufts 
of rufous hairs in the nerve-axils; secondary nerves 6-8 on each side, 
oblique; transverse veins very fine, faint; petiole slender, 8-11 lin. 
long. Cymes in compound axillary and terminal panicles or corymbs 
with spreading branches and branchlets, covered with the same kind of 
tomentum as the young branches, up to 2} in. long; bracts minute 
ovate or lanceolate, acute; pedicels up to 14 lin. long. Calyx minutely 
furfuraceous or tomentose, 1} lin. long ; sepals rotundate, obtuse; intra- 
calyeular glands 5. Corolla very finely furfuraceous without ; tube 
urceolate, not quite 2 lin. long; throat glabrous, supra-staminal calli 
transversely linear; lobes ovate-lanceolate, subacute, as long as the 
