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sinus-pockets truncate, ciliate. Coronal-lobes arising at the middle of 
the corolla-tube, fleshy, subulate, obtuse, strongly incurved, pubescent. 
Anthers acuminate, connivent in a cone. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo : Ntombi River, near Lutete, Hens, A, 227! 
Very near C. Baumii, N. E. Br., differing in its linear leaves and more fleshy 
{and in the dried state darker coloured) corolla, which has very much narrower lobes, 
more oblique at the apex. 
8. C. producta, V. HZ. Br. Stem apparently of scrambling 
habit, minutely scabrid. Leaves opposite or alternate ; petiole 3-1 lin. 
long; blade 4-1} in. long, 4-3 in. broad, oblong, obtuse, apiculate, 
rounded or subcuneate at the base. Cymes axillary sessile or sub- 
sessile, about 2 in long and }in. in expanse, 7—15-flowered ; bracts 
minute, ovate, acute ; pedicels 14-2 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 1 lin. 
long, 2 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, glabrous. Corolla quite glabrous 
inside and out; tube 14 lin. long, campanulate ; lobes 3 lin. long, 1 lin. 
broad, narrowly oblong, obtuse, erect or ascending ; sinus-pockets pro- 
duced into linear truncate or minutely bifid teeth 4 lin. long, resem- 
bling a second series of coronal-lobes. Coronal-lobes arising from the 
middle of the corolla-tube, } lin. long, clavate, obtuse, glabrous. 
Staminal column 4 lin. long; anthers with subulate tips, connivent in 
a cone, 
Lower Guinea, Angola : Amboella; by the River Kubango, above Knimarva, 
3600 tt., Baum, 457 ! 
In having the sinus-pockets produced into distinct lobes, this plant resembles 
C. angolensis, Welw., and belongs to the same group of species, the flowers however 
are very much larger and the coronal-lobes quite different. 
9. C. Baumii, V. #. Br. Stem flexuose or twining, not scabrid, 
wrinkled in the dried state, reddish-brown. Leaves spreading, gla- 
brous; petiole 1-2 lin. long; blade 1-1} in. long, 5-7 lin. broad (or 
larger 2), lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, rounded at the base. 
Cymes sublateral at the nodes, 3-14 in. long including the short 
peduncle, 3-3 in. in diam., much branched, compact, corymbose, many- 
flowered, glabrous; branches erect or ascending ; bracts 3-3 lin. me 
ovate, acute; pedicels 1-13 lin. long. Sepals ¢ lin. long, 3 lin. broad, 
oblong-ovate, obtuse, glabrous. Corolla 2} lin. in diam., campanulate, 
shortly pointed and slightly twisted in bud, glabrous outside, pube- 
scent at the base of the lobes around the mouth of the tube within, 
tube } lin. long ; lobes 14-1} lin. long, 3_1 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, 
erect, spreading, or recurved at the tips; margin of the race opie 
ciliate with rather long hairs. Coronal-lobes inserted at the mae 0 
the corolla-tube much above the insertion of the stamens, 4-4 ee 
long, fleshy, subulate, acute, incurved, resembling fish-hooks, si 
pubescent or hairy. Staminal column } lin. long; anthers pret: , 
hones acute, connivent in an acute cone over the conical apex of the 
Style, 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Amboella; by the River Longa, below Napalanka, 
3700 ft., Baum, 577! 
