12 LXXXIX. BORAGINEZ (BAKER AND WRIGHT). [ Cordia. 
very unequal, broadly ovate, acute. Corolla sulphur-coloured, 4 lin. in 
diam. ; tube cylindrical, 5 lin. long ; lobes 5, oblong, obtuse, 2 lin. long, 
14 lin. broad. Stamens inserted in the corolla-throat ; filaments 1} lin. 
long, slender, glabrous. Ovary conical, tapering into the style; style 
bipartite nearly to the base; ultimate branches linear, 4 lin, long, 
stigmatose along the upper part. Fruit ovoid-conic, mucronate, | in. 
long, seated on the ash-coloured hardened cup-shaped calyx.—Hiern in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 714. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; in forests among the mountains of 
Sobato de Bumba, Welwitsch, 5428! at Undelle, Welwitsch, 5432! 
13. C. platythyrsa, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 27. A tree 20- 
80 ft. high ; branchlets pubescent. Leaves ovate to suborbicular, up to 
5 in. long and 4} in. broad, shortly acuminate, obtuse at the base, 
irregularly crenate or almost entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous above, 
pubescent beneath ; lateral nerves about 5 on each side ; petiole 14-2 in. 
long. Cymes in a terminal ample divaricately branched panicle ; 
branches and short pedicels densely pubescent; flowers polygamous. 
Calyx 2 lin. long, funnel-shaped, densely pubescent outside, not suleate; 
lobes 3-5, oblong, obtuse. Corolla funnel-shaped ; lobes 4—5, oblong, 
obtuse. Stamens 3-5, inserted in the corolla-throat; filaments hairy 
below their insertion. Fruit oblong, acute, glabrous. 6 lin. long, seated 
on the enlarged campanulate calyx. — C. populifolia, Baker, luc. 
C. Irvingti, Baker, l.c. 1895, 113, partly. C. odorata, Giirke in 
Notizbl. Konig]. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 59. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Bagru River, Mann, 875! Lagos: Abeokuta, 
Irving! Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 1710! 1856! 2200! Yaunde, Zenker, 247! 
Zenker & Staudt, 340! 
Lower Guinea. (iaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 390! 451. 
14. ©, Irvingii, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 113, partly —A 
fine spreading shade tree, 60 ft. high (Johnson). Branches tomentose 
when young. Leaves obovate or almost orbicular, up to 9 in. long by 
6} in. broad, cuneate or slightly cordate at the base, upper surface 
minutely pitted, not scabrid, lower surface densely tomentose; petiole 
5 in, long. Cymes in a much-branched terminal panicle; rhachis 
covered with ash-coloured pubescence; flowers polygamous. Male 
flower: Calyx tubular, 3-lobed, not suleate, woolly pubescent outside, 
5 lin. long ; lobes ovate, acuminate, with a strong intramarginal nerve. 
Corolla funnel-shaped, yellowish (Johnson) ; tube 34 lin. long; lobes 6, 
oblong, obtuse, 2 lin. long, 14 lin. broad. Stamens inserted in the 
corolla-throat and as long as the lobes; filaments hairy on the part 
adnate to the tube. Rudiment of ovary ovoid, } lin. long, with an 
apical tuft of straight hairs. Female flowers not seen. Fruit oblong, 
obtuse, 13 in. long, 10 lin. in diam., seated on the enlarged hardened 
cup-shaped calyx. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos: interior, Rowland ! Gold Coast: East Akim, Johnson 
744! Asakrakra-Kwahu, Johnson, 625 ! : 
