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13. D. disticha, Planch. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t.798. A shrub 4 ft. 
high (Mann), with slender glabrous branches. Leaves 2-ranked, 
obliquely lanceolate, obtusely caudate-acuminate, entire, very shortly 
petioled, glabrous, dark green above, yellowish-green beneath (when 
dry), 1-3 in. long, 3-14 in. broad. Flowers 5-merous, yellow (Holland), 
solitary, subsessile, 1-14 in. long. Calyx-tube glabrous or pubescent 
without; lobes oblong, rounded or obtuse at the apex, pubescent, 
parallel-veined, Petals opposite and rather shorter than the calyx-lobes, 
more or less deeply bifid. Fruit oblong or more or less spherical, about 
$ in. long.—D. disticha, forma glabrescens, Eng]. in Engl. Jahrb. vii. 
337. D. oligantha, Gilg in Eng). Jahrb. xix. 274. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Samu country, Scott-Elliot, 4205! Scarcies 
River, Scott-Elliot, 4703! and without precise locality, Afzelius ! Don! Barter! 
Unwin and Smythe,17! Southern Nigeria: Owley, Holland, 179! Cameroons : 
Cameroon River, Mann, 2199! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 22 ! 
14. D. polygaloides, Gilg in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk- 
Exped. 301, name only. Young branches densely pubescent, later 
glabrous. Leaves rhomboid or obliquely ovate, acuminate, obtuse, entire, 
glabrous or glabrescent above, with scattered adpressed hairs beneath, 
1-14 in. long, 3-3 in. broad; petioles very short, densely pubescent. 
Flowers 5-merous, in pairs or solitary, densely pubescent, sessile, 
14-14 in. long. Calyx-tube slender; lobes oblong-ovate, about } as 
long as the tube. Petals about as long as the calyx-lobes, divided to 
the base, glabrous; segments linear or linear-oblong, entire. Ovary 
glabrous. Fruit not seen. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: along the River Mungo, between Mundame and 
Otam, Schlechter, 12889! North Cameroons, Conrau, 118! 
15. D. laciniata, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 204. A much- 
branched shrub about 6 ft. high, with spreading pubescent, later 
glabrous, branches. Leaves 2-ranked, obliquely oblong or oblong-lanceo- 
late, caudate-acuminate, subacute, entire, very shortly petioled, glabrous 
above, sparsely strigose beneath, 2~2? in. long, ?—1 in. broad. Flowers 
5-merous, solitary or two together, white (Bawmann), sessile, about 
1} in. long. Calyx-tube slender, densely pubescent; lobes lanceolate, 
obtuse, pubescent, parallel-veined, about 4 as long as the tube. Petals 
Opposite and about as long as the calyx-lobes, divided to the base; seg- 
ments lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, with a deeply cut margin, reflexed. 
Fruit not seen. 
Upper Guinea. Togo: Misahdhe, in moist shady woods, Baumann, 481! 
This species is very near D. disticha, Planch. 
16. D. pubescens, H. H. W. Pearson. Young branches densely 
pubescent, later glabrous. Leaves rhomboid or obliquely ovate, acumi- 
nate, obtuse, entire, glabrous above, with scattered adpressed hairs 
beneath, 2-24 in. long, $-1 in. broad; petioles very short, pubescent. 
Flowers 5-merous, solitary in the leaf-axils, densely pubescent, sessile, 
