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acute, rather longer than the campanulate tube. Corolla campanulate, 
5 lin. in diam. ; tube 1 lin. long; lobes slightly longer than the tube. 
Stamens } lin. long; anther-cells divergent at the base. Ovary conical ; 
style about 1 lin. long, very shortly bifid. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Ruwenzori; Toru, Scott-Elliot, 6172 
partly! Taro Hill, near Mombasa, Kassner, 4954! Umba Valley, Smith! Taita, 
Hildebrandt, 2359, 2598. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Nyika Steppe, Holst, 
2409 ! 
2. E. petiolaris, Lam. Hncycl. i. 527. A shrub 5-8 ft. high ; 
bark greyish, rough. Leaves oval, obtuse or acute, rounded or acute at 
the base, up to 4} by 24 in., entire, glabrous ; petiole up to 2 in. long, 
slender. Panicles terminal, lax; branches glabrous. Calyx 1} lin. 
long, glabrous except on the margins; teeth 5, deltoid, about as long as 
the tube. Corolla broadly campanulate ; tube 2+ lin. long, glabrous ; 
lobes 5, rounded, 4 lin. long. Stamens inserted about the middle of the 
corolla-tube, included, glabrous. Ovary conical; style 1} lin. long, very 
shortly bifid ; stigmas capitate-—DC. Prodr. ix. 504; Baker, Fl. Maurit. 
201; Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 336. 2. internodis, L’Herit. Stirp. 47, t. 
24. Cordia petiolata, Hort. Par. ex Lam. l.c. Hilsenbergia LHhretia, 
Tausch, and H. rugosu, Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. i. 478. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Mombasa and vicinity, Kirk! Wakefield! 
Malindi, at the mouth of the River Sabaki, Kirk! Witu, Thomas, 197! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara Muoa, Holst, 3077! 
Also in Mauritius and Madagascar. 
3. E. gurkeana, De Wild. in Htudes Fl. Katanga, iii. 223.—A 
tree; young branches pubescent, becoming glabrous, bark grey. Leaves 
elliptic, acute at each end, entire, membranous, glabrous on both sur- 
faces or with scattered hairs on the upperside of the nerves, 1}-3 in. 
long, 6-12 lin. wide, petioled. Cymes in the axils of the upper caducous 
leaves or terminating short branches, peduncled, lax, about 2 in. long ; 
pedicels slender, 1-2 lin. long, sparingly pubescent. Calyx cup-shaped, 
disarticulating at the base, about 2 lin. long, glabrescent; teeth 5, 
obtusely triangular. Corolla deeply 5-lobed, about twice as long as the 
calyx. Stamens about as long as the corolla-lobes. Ovary glabrous ; 
style glabrous; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit unknown. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Katanga ; Lukafu, Verdick, 308. 
4. E. litoralis, Girke in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 3830.—A shrub ; 
branches pubescent above. Leaves elliptic, obtuse or subacute, acute at 
the base, 3 in. long, 14 in. wide, glabrous above or pubescent on the 
nerves only, pubescent below; petiole 1 in. long. Panicles in the axils 
of the upper leaves, lax, few-flowered; peduncles long. Calyx 2 lin. 
long, densely pubescent outside; lobes 5, deltoid, acute, as long as the 
tube. Corolla campanulate, a little longer than the calyx; lobes 5, 
short, rounded. Stamens inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube, 
included ; filaments glabrous. Ovary conical, glabrous ; style simple, 
