224 LXXXIV. APOCYNACEX (STAPF). [ Oncinotis. 
Imperfectly known species. 
9. O. chlorogena, K. Schum. in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk- 
Exped. 307, A liane with yellow flowers. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos: in forest near Ikoradu, Schlechter, 12996! 
10. O. subsessilis, AK. Schum. lc. Flowers whitish with 5 
purple streaks in the throat. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos: Yoruba; Ishagamo, Schlechter, 12310. 
41. MOTANDRA, A. DC.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 715. 
Calyx small, herbaceous, eglandular; sepals almost free, imbricate, 
ovate, obtuse. Corolla slightly funnel-shaped to salver-shaped ; tube 
cylindric or almost so, comparatively wide, with 5 longitudinal grooves 
outside and corresponding slightly projecting ridges inside descending 
from the sinuses to the middle, and there touching a ring of hairs con- 
sisting of 5 supra-staminal arches; mouth naked ; lobes linear-oblong 
or ovate, overlapping to the right. Stamens inserted above the base of 
the corolla-tube ; filaments filiform-clavate, short; anthers conniving 
into a cone, included, linear, terminating in a minutely plumose mucro, 
sagittate ; appendages slightly shorter than the polliniferous part ; tails 
short, very obtuse, recurved ; foot of the connective projecting, glabrous 
above, papillose below. Disc cupular, 5-lobed, fleshy. Carpels 2, 
free, slightly inferior, adnate to the disc up to or beyond the middle ; 
style very short; stigma spindle-shaped, 2-lobed, lobes linear; ovules 
pluriseriate, numerous. Mericarps follicular, lanceolate in outline, 
divaricate. Seeds oblong, obtuse at both ends, with a long deciduous 
apical coma; endosperm scanty. Cotyledons foliaceous, thin; radicle 
short.—Scandent shrubs. Leaves opposite, papery; secondary nerves 
distant; axillary stipules 0; axillary glands 0. Panicles terminal, 
rather loose ; flowers inconspicuous. 
Species 3 endemic. 
Bracts very small, inconspicuous; flowers white ; 
corolla-lobes longer than the tube. 
Panicles linear, when elongated usually not more 
than 1 in. wide; leaves with patches of white : 
hairs in the nerve-axils below . S - 1. ML. guineensis. 
Panicles pyramidal, up to more than 3 in. wide at 
the base; leaves usually without patches of ha‘rs ; 
in the nerve-axils below . : ; ; . 2. M. pyramidalis. 
Br..cts foliaceous, up to 34 lin. long; flowers yellow 
corolla-lobes shorter than the tube 
. 8. M. Lujat. 
1. M. guineensis, 4. DC. Prod. viii. 423. A small, more or less 
scandent shrub; young branches slender, densely fulvo-tomentose, 
ultimately glabrescent and reddish-brown. Leaves oblong to oblong” 
lanceolate or obovate, acuminate, (acumen short or up to ? in. longs 
narrow),obtuse at the base, 2-4 in, long, 1-1? in. broad, fulvo-tomen 
