ADDENDA. 
1a. GILLETIELLA, De Wild. et Durand in Comptes-rendus 
Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxix. 71. 
Corolla-tube broadening upwards, gibbous below, curved ; lobes- 
5, spreading. Stamens 4, included, affixed to the tube of the corolla 
above the middle; filaments short; anthers linear, glandular-pilose, 
bearded at the base; lobes parallel, unequal at the base. Disk 
annular, interrupted. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell and super- 
posed or solitary, erect; stigma with two nearly equal lobes ; style 
flattened. Fruit drupaceous, 2-celled, 2-seeded, globular.—A climbing 
shrub, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves entire. Flowers axillary, 
solitary, with two large bracteoles which adhere together before flower- 
ing and at flowering become more or less free to the base. 
1. G. congolana, De Wild. et Durand in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. 
Belg. xxxix. 72. Leaves obovate, petiolate, narrowed rather abruptly 
towards the almost hastate-cordate base, acute at the apex, 6-8 in. 
long, 2-4} in. broad ; petiole about 2 in. long. Peduncle more than 
2 in. long; bracteoles acute, stated to be “ovate, }-1 in. long and 
4-1} in. broad,” and “to enclose the corolla-tube, which is about ¢ lin. 
long, to the middle” (the dimensions seem incorrect). Corolla-lobes 
about ? in. long. Stamens with filaments only 1 lin. long ; anthers 
2} lin. long. Style about 8 lin. long. Fruit described as 3 1n- 1D 
diameter and nearly 21 in. in length, grooved at the middle, with the 
remains of the style above. 
Lower Guinea. Congo Free State: Kisantu, on the Inkissi River, Gillet. 
, : . . oss /x, 18: 
The meaning of the phrase “ annularibus calycis brevissimis,” used of the calyx, 
not clear. 
ba. Thunbergia Thonneri, Je Wild. et Durand in Comptes 
rendus Soc. Bot. Bely. xxxviii. 41. A climbing shrub, 10 ft, high. 
Stems at first sparsely pubescent, soon glabrescent. Leaves ovate, 
acuminate, acute below, 23-64 in. long, 1-24 in. broad, slightly crisp 
and toothed at the margin, glabrous, on short petioles. Flowers ae 
tary ; peduncles #-1} in. long; bracteoles ovate, represented as shor 
acuminate in the tigure cited below, but said to be long acuminate in the 
descriptions, glabrous except near the apex within, 1} in. long, } mn- 
