216 LXXXIV. APOCYNACEX (STAPF). | Baissea. 
tube. Staminal cone ? lin. long, reaching slightly beyond the middle 
of the tube; anthers with spreading hairs on the back. Dise shallow, 
sinuate. Carpels puberulous on the top; style short, obconical, 
papillose; stigma campanulate, with a subulate apex.—Hua in Bull. 
Soc. Linn, Paris, 2 sér.i. 11. Guerkea floribunda, K. Schum, in Engl. 
& Prantl, Pflanzenfam, iv. ii. 180. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 393! 
21. B. gracillima, Hua in Bull. Soe. Linn. Paris, 2 sér.i. 12. Young 
branches compressed, covered with a very fine rusty furfuraceous 
tomentum, soon glabrous and terete. Leaves oblong to obovate-oblong, 
acutely acuminate (acumen up to } in. long), rounded (rarely sub- 
acute) at the base, 3-5} in. long, 1-2} in. broad, papery, quite glabrous 
except for rufous tufts of hairs in the nerve-axils; secondary nerves 
7-10 on each side; transverse veins subhorizontal, fine, not very 
close ; petiole 2-3 lin. long. Cymes subumbelliform, gathered in large 
compound terminal leafy panicles, 4-6 in. long and as broad, puberv- 
lous, especially in the upper part; branches up to 3 in. long; bracts 
minute, ovate, acute; pedicels very short, up to ? lin. long. Calyx 
semi-globose, very minutely pubescent, 4 lin. long; sepals ovate, sub- 
obtuse ; intra-calycular glands 5. Corolla whitish, tubular-campant- 
late, minutely pubescent without; tube 1 lin. long, throat glabrous; 
supra-staminal calli 0; lobes rather fleshy, linear, obtuse, almost as 
long as the tube. Staminal cone reaching to the corolla-mouth, 1 lin. 
long; anthers villous on the back. Disc 5-lobed. Carpels puberulous 
on the top; style very short, obconical, smooth; stigma oblong- 
campanulate with a subulate apex. Follicles very slender, constric 
between the seeds, 8 in. long.—B. micrantha, Hua, |.c. 11. Guerkea 
gracillima, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 228, 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Yaunde, Zenker & Staudt, 124! 684! 
Lower Guinea. French Congo: Loudima, Thollon, 1360! Forests of 
Mayombe, Thollon, 1129! 
Incompletely known species. 
22. Oncinotis (?) axillaris, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb, xxiv. 
226. A climbing shrub; young branches tetragonal, very minutely 
puberulous, soon glabrous and terete, blackish when dry. La 
oblong-lanceolate or subobovate-oblong, shortly and very ae 
acuminate, rounded at the base, 1-1? in. long, 5-8 lin. broa 
herbaceous, hispidulous on the midrib below; petiole scarcely 1} hn. 
long. Flowers in axillary fascicles or 5—6-flowered cymes ; meer 
cences minutely puberulous, scarcely 4 lin. long; pedicels short. 
Calyx puberulous, ? lin. long. Corolla campanulate; tube puberulous 
without, 24 lin. long; lobes 34-4 lin. long. Anthers 3 lin. long; 
sparingly hairy on the back. Ovary sparingly pubescent op the top. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo, Mechow, 569. 
This is almost certainly a species of Baissea, although it seems to have the 
inflorescence of a Zygodia, 
