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5. B. aurantiaco-maculata, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 377. A 
shrub, 6-7 ft. high ; branchlets tetragonal, clothed with grey hairs when 
young. Leaves shortly petioled, lanceolate, 2—5 in. long, $ in. broad, 
acute, crenulate, conspicuously and persistently auricled at the base, 
glabrous and densely bullate on the upper surface, densely clothed with 
grey tomentum and prominently reticulated beneath. Panicle thyrsoid, 
6-10 in, in diam., sparsely leafy ; cymes capitate; pedicels very short. 
Calyx villous, ;'; in. long. Corolla 4—5 times as long as the calyx, 
orange-yellow, clothed inside with grey tomentum. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Langenburg; on the Ngosi or Poroto 
Mountains, in Usafa country, 8200 ft., Goetze, 1129. 
In Durand & Schinz’s Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 196, the widely cultivated B. mada- 
gascariensis, Lam., is given as a plant of the Lower Congo, collected by Pechu:1- 
Loesche. 
5. USTERIA, Willd.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 796. 
Calyx-tube very short ; lobes 4, 3 very small, one large and foliaceous. 
Corolla salver-shaped; tube long, cylindrical; lobes 4, ovate, valvate. 
Stamens inserted at the corolla-throat opposite the large lobe of the 
calyx ; filament short, filiform ; anther ovate, with parallel cells. Ovary 
globose, 2-celled ; style filiform ; stigma subcapitate ; ovules axile, many 
in a cell. Capsule oblong, coriaceous, septicidally 2-valved; valves 
bifid. Seeds minute, flattened, winged ; albumen sparse, fleshy ; embryo 
straight.— Habit, leaves and flowers of Strychnos. 
Monotypic, endemic. 
1. U. guineensis, Willd.; A. DC. Prod. ix. 22. <A climbing 
shrub ; stems 8—10 ft. long; branchlets glabrous. Leaves ovate, entire, 
coriaceous, glabrous, penninerved ; lower 3—4 in. long; petiole short ; 
stipule reduced toa mere line. Cymes arranged in copious simple broad 
axillary and terminal panicles; pedicels short; bracts ovate, minute. 
Produced lobe of calyx linear-oblong, 4—} in. long. Corolla white ; 
tube } in. long; lobes }—,}, in. long. Stamens as long as the corolla- 
lobes. Style exserted.—Konig & Sims, Ann. Bot. i. 363, t. 7, fig. 3 ; 
Hook. Niger Fi., 459, t. 45; Ic. Pl.t. 795. U. volubilis, Afzel. Gen. PI. 
Guin. 27 with fig. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: Heudelot, 597! Leprieur, Perottet. Gambia, 
Brown-Lester, 837! Sierra Leone: Bunce Island, Kirk! Sugarloaf Mountain, 
1000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 4025! Samu Count y, Scott-Elliot, 4243! near Kitchom, 
Scott-Elliot, 4317! near Kafogo, Scott-Elliot, 5497! an without precise locality, 
Don! Afzelius, Lagos: near Lagos, Rowland / Yewa Mata, Punch, 75 partly ! 
Ebute Metta, Millen, 23! Iton, Rowland! Southern Nigeria: Nun River, Mann, 
460 ! 
6. STRYCHNOS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 797. 
Calyx 4—5-partite ; segments broad and obtuse or narrow and acute. 
Corolla campanulate or salver-shaped ; lobes 4—5, valvate. Stamens 4—5, 
inserted at the throat of the corolla-tube; filaments short, filiform ; 
