1042 ADDENDA. 
ducing 2-3 ultimately 3-flowered cymes on peduncles 14-2 lin. long. 
Bracts suborbicular, about 23-3 lin. in diam., deeply concave. Involucre 
(dried and immature) 34 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands 
and 5 subquadrate deeply fringed lobes; glands 14-1} lin. in their 
greater diam., rounded-reniform, rather deeply notched on the inner 
margin, apparently yellowish. Ovary and fruit not seen. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Ambaca, used by the natives for fences in their 
villagesand cattle-yards, Gossweiler ! 
1, Dichostemma glaucescens, Pierve. Add: 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Libreville, Alaine, 110! 113! 1129! 
1, Anthostema senegalense, 4. Juss. Add: 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur! Perrottet, 728! Heudelot, 40! 
Guinea: Tanana, Poisson, 13! Tristas Island, Paroisse,1! French Soudan: 
Moussai, Chevalier, 406! 
2, Anthostema aubryanum, Juail/. Add: 
Lower Guinea. Gabocn: Libreville, Klaine, 238! 
3. Bridelia scleroneuroides, Pax. Add; Mildbr. Wiss. Deutsch. 
Zentr.-Afr. Exped. ii. 450. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Bukoba district; Itara, Wildbraed, 
200. 
5, Bridelia angolensis, Welw. Add: 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla, Dekindt, 652! 
10. Bridelia atroviridis, Mill. Arg. Add: Mildbr. Wis. 
Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. ii. 450. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Ituri district; Mawambi, Mildbraed, 3069. 
124. Bridelia grandis, Pierre MSS. ex Hutchinson. A tree 
60-63 ft. high; branchlets pilose, at length becoming nearly glabrous. 
Leaves. oblong-elliptic or oblong-oblanceolate, long-cuspidate-acuminate 
and obtuse at the apex, mostly cuneate at the base, 24-4 in. long, 
1-1} in. broad, rather rigidly chartaceous, shining, glabrous and darker 
on the upper surface, dull, often somewhat glaucous and thinly pubes- 
cent on the lower surface; lateral nerves 8-9 on each side, prominent 
below, slightly arcuate, extending to the margin; tertiary nerves lax 
and inconspicuous; petiole 3-34 lin. long, rather densely rusty- 
pubescent; stipules subulate-lanceolate, densely tomentose.  Bracts 
small, hairy. Male flowers: pedicel } lin. long, glabrous. Buds ovoid, 
glabrous. Sepals lanceolate, subacute, scarcely % lin. long, glabrous on 
both sides. Petals spathulate, very small. Disk thick and fleshy, 
undulately lobed, glabrous. Rudimentary ovary subentire, glabrous. 
Female flowers subsessile: Sepals ovate-triangular, subcoriaceous, 
glabrous. Petals elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, scarcely half the length 
of the sepals. Disk enclosing the ovary, denticulate, glabrous outside. 
Ovary narrowly ovoid, glabrous; styles deeply bilobed. Fruits 1-celled, 
shortly stalked, oblong-ellipsoid, about 3 lin. long and 2 lin, in diam. 
