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each side, slightly raised on both surfaces; petiole 1 24 lin. _long. 
Flowers axillary, sessile, several or many together; bract obliquely 
cupular, minutely ciliate, solid base }-3 lin. long, dorsal margin 3~{ 
lin. long, truncate or slightly emarginate, umbonate } lin. below the 
apex, ventral margin 2 lin. long. Receptacle and calyx together 
cylindric-flask-shaped, 13-13 lin. long. Calyx 5-toothed, 1 lin. long. 
Corolla red and purple (Scheffler), 13-2 in. long, basal portion narrow, 
{~1 lin. long, suprabasal swelling ellipsoid, 23 lin. long; tube split uni- 
laterally 6-7 lin. down; lobes erect, linear, broadened upwards and into 
the base, 43 lin. long. Filaments inserted $ lin. above the base of the 
corolla-lobes, 23 lin. long, tapering upwards, involute ; anthers linear, 
slightly emarginate, 14 lin. long. Disc acutely 5-lobed, 2 lin. high. 
Stigma subglobose, 3 lin. in diam. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Lamuru, 10,000 ft., Scheffler, 308! British East 
Africa, Elliott, 231 
Differs from L. brunneus, Engl., in the more or less pinnate nervation of the 
leaves. Individual leaves may show an approach to a trinerved condition. 
96. L. brunneus, Lngl. in Engl. Jahrb.xx.88. Branches slightly 
flexuous, terete or subangular, greyish, about 13 lin. in diam. 1 ft. 
below the apex, younger part angular, smooth, older part finely and 
densely lenticellate. Leaves ternate cr alternate, subsessile, elliptic- 
oblong, rounded at the apex, often apiculate, acute or obtuse at the 
base, 24-4 in, long, 1-2 in. broad, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, dull, con- 
Spicuously 3 5-nerved from the base; nerves prominent on the upper 
surface, slightly raised on the lower; veins raised on the upper sur- 
face, hardly visible on the lower; petiole 4-1 lin. long. Flowers axil- 
lary, several or many together, subsessile; pedicels represented only 
by the solid base of the bract; bract obliquely cupular, minutely 
and very sparingly puberulous outside, ciliolate, umbonate 1-1} lin. 
above the base, dorsal margin 1} lin. long including the lobe, ventral 
margin {~1 lin. long, dorsal lobe quadrangular, truncate, } }+ lin, long, 
3-$ lin. broad. Receptacle and calyx together about 23 lin. long, 
narrowly campanulate, much expanded in the upper half. Calyx in- 
conspicuously 5-toothed, glandular-ciliolate, 13-13 lin. long. Corolla 
about 14 in. long, carmine, suprabasal swelling commencing about 
3 lin. above the base, ellipsoid, 1}-2 lin. long, neck about 2 lin. long ; 
lobes erect, linear, acute, 54 lin. long. Filaments inserted about 3 lin. 
above the base of the corolla-lobes, 4-angled, tapering upwards, 24 lin, 
long, angles glandular-papillate, dorsal surface slightly convex, upper- 
most { lin. of filament slightly swollen; anthers linear, 14 lin. long. 
Disc shortly and subacutely lobed, } lin. high. Style slightly skittle- 
shaped.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 931. Z. malangensis, Engl. & 
Krause in Engl. Jahrb, xliii.406. Z. Buchholzii, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb, 
xx. 91, as to the Angola specimens. Agelanthus brunneus, Van Tiegh, 
in Bull. Soc. Bot. France. xlii, 246, 738. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in the forests of Pedras de 
Guinga and Mutollo, on Cesalpiner, Welwitsch, 4850! Malange, Mechow, 392! 
8924! Gossweiler, 1011! on Diplorhynchus sp., Gossweiler, 1012! 
