Neuropeltis.| XC. CONVOLVULACER (BAKER AND RENDLE), 8t 
long. Corolla 3 lin. long, with a short tube and 5 widely spreading 
elliptic-ovate lobes, Stamens as long as the corolla. Ovary cone- 
shaped, densely ferruginously hairy; styles sparsely pilose; stigmas 
peltate with two long, flattened, irregularly lobulate branches. Capsule 
ovoid, glabrous, 3 lin. long; pericarp rather thin, splitting lengthwise. 
Hallier f, in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 92. Porana acuminata, Beauv. FI. 
Owar, i, 66, t. 39; Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 436, 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Don/ Oware, Beauvois! Cameroons: 
Victoria, Kalbreyer, 11! Bipinde, Zenker, 1934! 1235! 
2. N. velutina, //allier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 374. A climbing 
shrub; branches rather thick, terete, densely clothed with ferruginous 
hairs. Leaves shortly petioled, obovate-elliptic, 4 in, long by nearly 
half as broad, cuspidate at the apex, subcordate at the base, hairy only 
on the ribs above, densely ferruginous, velvety beneath ; lateral nerves 
about 7 each side, erecto-patent. Flowers absent ; fruits numerous, 
crowded in a long branched pyramidal terminal panicle more than 1 ft. 
long and nearly as broad; lateral branches solitary in the axils of 
ordinary foliage leaves, slender erecto-patent, simple or sparsely 
branched. Bracts with a short thin pedicel, suborbicular, up to 2 in. 
long, subacuminate at the base and apex, ending in a filiform ferru- 
ginous mucro. Sepals suborbicular, 1 lin. long, obtuse or subacute, 
ferrugineo-tomentose. Capsule ovoid, 3-4 lin. long, glabrous, inde- 
hiscent. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Batanga, Dinklage, 786, 1009. 
11. PREVOSTEA, Choisy in Ann. Sci. Nat. sér. i. iv. (1823) 497, 
Sepals membranous to subcoriaceous, in African species ovate to 
orbicular, blunt, or the inner shortly acute, the 2 outer larger than 
the inner and accrescent, forming large membranous structures in the 
fruit. Corolla moderate to small, urceolate or campanulate, apparently 
generally white, lobes large or small, spreading. Stamens and styles 
included ; filaments dilated at the base, generally glabrous. Style long, 
unequally divided, rarely to the middle. Stigmas broad, ellipsoidal to 
globose, Fruit 1-celled and 1-seeded (where known).—Climbing shrubs 
with large elliptic subcoriaceous leaves, Flowers rather small, in 
sessile or subsessile axillary cymes. 
Species 9, two in South America, one in Madagascar, and six in Tropical 
Africa, 
Corolla urceolate. . 
Corolla more than 6 lin. long . < . . . LP. spbinonaie 
Corolla 3 lin. long . 2. P. micrantha, 
Corolla campanulate 
Corolla more than 1 in. long . ; : : . 3. P. campanulata, 
Corolla not exceeding 1 in. re 
Outer sepals less than 3 lin. long . : . . 4. P, Heudelotir. 
5, P. Cabra. 
Outer sepals 4 lin. long 
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