168 CXV. MONIMIACE# (BAKER AND WRIGHT).  [Glossocalyax. 
Leaves alternate, oblong, long-acuminate, symmetrical at the base, 
6-8 in. long, 2-24 in. wide, entire or with remote small teeth, mem- 
branous, penninerved; petiole 3-5 lin. long. Flowers in axillary 
fascicles of 4-5; pedicels very slender, up to 8 lin. long, hairy. 
Perianth obliquely campanulate, 1-14 lin. wide, unequally toothed, 
produced on one side into a narrow lip nearly 1 in. long. Disk adnate 
to the perianth-tube, and in the male almost closing it at the throat, 
in the female fleshy and protruded between the carpels. Stamens 
included ; filaments short, broad, slightly connate; anthers ovate, 
introrse, 2-celled, opening upwards by valves. Carpels many, each one 
enclosed in a hollow of the disk; style subulate; ovule solitary, erect. 
Fruit (immature) subglobose, angled, fleshy, crowned by the withered 
perianth.—Perkins & Gilg in Eng]. Pflanzenr. Monim. 116. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 1784! 2482! 29924! 3083! 
Fernando Po, Mann, 1428! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Sierra del Crystal, Mann, 1723! 
2. G. Staudtii, Lngl. Jahrb. xxvi. 384. A shrub, up to 13 ft. 
high, strigose on all the young parts with fascicles of hairs. Branches 
slightly flexuous. Leaves oblong (lanceolate, Hngler), often unequal at 
the base, long-acuminate, remotely denticulate, up to 8 in. long and 
22 in. wide, strigose beneath especially on the nerves; lateral nerves 
about 10 each side arcuately ascending. Male flowers unknown; 
female solitary or several axillary ; pedicels 4 lin. long. Perianth-tube 
campanulate; limb narrow, produced on one side into a linear lip 
about 4 lin. long and 1 lin. wide. Disk forming a fleshy ring at the 
throat of the perianth. Carpels about 6; ovary ovoid, densely pilose ; 
style filiform.—Perkins & Gilg in Engl. Pflanzenr. Monim. 117. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Lolodorf, on the Lokunje River, at 1600 ft. in 
damp shady places, Staudt, 28; Johann Albrechtshéhe, Staudt, 808 ; in woods near 
Kribi, Dinklage, 1483 ; Bipinde, Zenker, 1887! 
3. G. brevipes, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. xiv. 2, t.1302. A shrub, 
10 ft. high. Young branches with fascicles of short stiff hairs. Leaves 
oblong, long-acuminate, 8 in. long, 24 in. wide, obliquely cordate at 
the base, quite entire, glabrous above, hairy beneath especially on the 
nerves; petiole 1 lin. long. Flowers in axillary fascicles; pedicels 
villous, 2 lin. long. Perianth 14 lin. in diam., oblique, green, pubes- 
cent outside; lip about 2 in. long, 2 lin. wide at the base, triangular. 
Carpels about 5, fusiform, hairy.—Perkins & Gilg in Engl. Pflanzenr. 
Monim. 116. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon River, Mann, 722! 2196 
2. CHLOROPATANE, Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 383. 
Flowers dicecious. Perianth 4-partite, when closed depressed- 
conical with valvate segments, when open patelliform ; segments ovate- 
lanceolate. Stamens numerous, subsessile; anthers ovoid, conniving 
at the apex, bursting by longitudinal slits. Female flowers unknown. 
