ADDENDA. 625 
pilose ; spines axillary, recurved. Leaves decussate, elliptical, rounded 
or widely acuminate, apiculate, about 14 in. long, 9-14 lin. wide, grey 
pilose on both surfaces; nerves impressed above, prominent beneath, 
about 7 basal; petioles about 2 lin. long. Cymes terminal on the 
branches, dense, many-flowered ; peduncles about 4 lin. long, as well as 
the very short pedicels and calyx grey-hirsute. Calyx 2 lin. long; 
lobes almost linear, recurved at the apex. Corolla shortly pubescent 
outside; tube 2-3 times as long as the lobes, long pilose inside the base ; 
lobes deltoid-ovate, acuminate. 
Lower Guinea, Angola: by the Kubango River below Massaca, in sand in 
maize-fields, 4760 ft,, Baum, 290; Huilla, Dekindt, 4a. 
2. Anthocleista nobilis, G. Don. Add: A. nigrescens, Afz. ex 
Gilg in Eng]. Jahrb. xvii. 575. 
4a. Anthocleista squamata, De Wild. and Dur. in. Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. 2 sér. i. 830. A tree. Branches terete, leafless at the base, 
unarmed; internodes about 7 lin. long. Leaves obovate-lanceolate, 
quite entire, 6-10 in. long, glabrous, acute, the upper with petioles 1} 
in. long; stipules short; lateral nerves 12-13 each side, midrib and 
nerves prominent beneath. Panicles terminal, cymose, dichotomous, 
about 7 in. long; branches compressed, densely scaly ; pedicels about 
3 lin. long, compressed, scaly. Sepals suborbicular, about 4 lin. long, 
glabrous, blackish, the inner rather longer than the outer. Corolla 
unknown. Fruit subglobose, 16 lin. long, 14 lin. in diam., crowned by 
the style base, enclosed at the base in the persistent sepals, dark brown, 
somewhat shining; stalk about 1 in. long, 2 lin. thick. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Kimuenza, Gillet, 1773. 
10a. Anthocleista bzrtsiana, De Wild. d: Dur. in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. 2 sér.i. 829. A large tree. Branches terete; internodes about 
5 lin. long. Leaves near the end of the branches, obovate-lanceolate. 
acute, attenuate at the base, 10-27 in. long, 34-7 in. wide, quite 
entire; midrib and nerves prominent beneath, lateral nerves about 13 
on each side; stipules semiorbicular, 8 lin. long, 3 lin. wide, undulate ; 
petiole channelled above. Panicles terminal, about 7 in. long, cymose, 
dichotomous ; branches compressed ; pedicels about 2 lin. long. Sepals 
suborbicular, the inner slightly longer than the outer. Corolla longer 
than the sepals, fleshy ; tube funnel-shaped, about 10 lin. long, 43 lin. 
in diam. at the apex; lobes 12, oblong, 7 lin. long, 24 lin. wide. 
Anthers about 12, 3 lin. long; filaments connate about 1 lin. up. 
Ovary ovoid; style thick, about 14 lin. long, not longer than the 
corolla; stigma capitate, about 1 lin. in diam. Fruit elliptical, 9 lin. 
long, 7} lin. in diam. ; pericarp more or less spongy, 4-lobed. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Kisantu, Gillet, 56. 
9a. Belmontia chionantha, Gilg in Bawm, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 
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