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Petals not longer than the calyx-lobes. 
Calyx-tube glabrous or glabrescent. 
Flowers exceeding 1 in. long. 
Leaves glabrous or glabrescent beneath . stenosiphon, 
Leaves adpressed-pubescent beneath . . Schweinfurthir. 
Flowers not more than 3 in. long . Buchholzit. 
Calyx-tube pubescent or tomentose. 
Flowers 2 in. long; disc fleshy 
. A usambarica, 
Flowers not more than 13 in. long; disc 
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leathery . : : . : : Oo vestita. 
Stigma club-shaped. 
Petals distinctly longer than the calyx-lobes. 
Calyx-tube glabrous or glabrescent . : . 9. D. convallariodora. 
Calyx-tube covered with stalked glands . - 10. D. glandulosa, 
Calyx-tube pubescent, tomentose or villous. 
Leaves rhomboid, not exceeding 14 in. long . 14. D. polygaloides, 
Leaves elliptic, not less than 3 in. long - 11. D. Perse. 
Petals not longer than the calyx-lobes. 
Calyx-tube glabrous or glabrescent. 
Flowers in pairs in the leaf-axils ; - 12. D, Manni. 
Most or all of the flowers solitary 13. D. disticha. 
Calyx-tube pubescent or tomentose. 
Calyx-tube not less than 1 in. long. 
Leaves glabrescent or sparsely adpressed 
puberulous beneath. 
Petal-segments entire . : - . 14. D. polygaloides. 
Petal segments more or less incised. 
Calyx-tube glabrous within. . 15, D. laciniata, 
Calyx-tube pubescent within . . 16. D. pubescens, 
Leaves densely pilose beneath . : . 17. D. Soyauxii. 
Calyx-tube not exceeding 4 in. long .- . 18. D. parvifiora, 
1. D. pulcherrima, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 203. A shrub 
6-13 ft. high; young branches pubescent, later glabrous. Leaves 
obliquely oblong, caudate-acuminate, acute, entire, very shortly petioled, 
glabrous above, adpressed-pubescent beneath, 2—3 in. long, about 1 in. 
broad. Flowers 5-merous, solitary, white (Staudt), sessile, about 2 in. 
long. Calyx-tube slender, cylindric, clothed with dense white pubes- 
cence ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, finely pubescent, paralled-veined, less 
than } as long as the tube, at length reflexed. Petals exceeding the 
calyx-lobes, divided to the base; segments oblong, deeply laciniate 
towards the apex, at length reflexed. Ovary glabrous. Fruit not 
seen. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: in moist shady places on Mapinda Mountain, 
near Lolodorf, about 2000 ft., Staudt, 321! 
2. D. thomensis, Lngl. & Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 273. Young 
branches puberulous, later glabrous. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceo- 
late, somewhat oblique, long-acuminate, obtuse, quite glabrous above, 
adpressed-pubescent beneath, 2—23 in. long, about 1} in. broad ; petiole 
very short, pubescent. Flowers (apparently) solitary, sessile; calyx- 
tube stout, pubescent, ? in. long ; lobes lanceolate, about $ as long as 
