526 XCVI. BIGNONIACEX (SPRAGUE). | Markhamia. 
Upper Guinea. (Gold Coast, Brown, 393! Fernando Po, Mann, 5! 399! 
Vogel, 60! Ansell! Cameroons: Victoria, Kalbreyer, 33! Yaunde, Zenker, 251 ! 
Zenker & Staudt, 66! and without precise locality, Preuss, 436 ! 
‘. M. Hildebrandtii, Sprague in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2800, fig. 9. 
A shrub or small tree; branchlets finely lepidote. Leaves 6-10 in. 
long; leaflets 7-9, shortly stalked, ovate or ovate-oblong, obtusely 
acuminate, cuneate at the base, 2—4 in. long, }-2 in. broad, entire, 
minutely lepidote. Panicle terminal or terminal and axillary ; rhachis 
lenticellate, densely lepidote, pilose above. Pedicels 2 lin. long. 
Calyx 9-114 lin. long, shortly uncinate, split down to within 2-4 lin. 
from the base, membranous, finely and densely lepidote, puberulous. 
Corolla yellow ; tube campanulate-funnel-shaped, 16—20 lin. long ; basal 
cylindric portion 5-54 lin. long, 1} lin. in diam. ; lobes 7-10 lin. long, 
sparsely and inconspicuously glandular. Stamens inserted 54-7 lin. 
above the base of the corolla-tube; filaments slightly thickened and 
pilose at the base; anther-lobes 1-1} lin. long. Dise annular, 4—3 lin. 
high, Ovary 2}~24 lin. long, minutely and densely lepidote ; stigma- 
lobes elliptic or ovate, entire or minutely serrulate.—M. lutea, K. 
Schum. in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 363, partly (as regards the East 
African localities), not of K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iv. 3 B, 242. Dolichandrone Hildebrandtii, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 
1894, 31. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Ukamba; Kitui, Hildebrandt, 2732! 
Kikuyu; Nairobi, Kassner, 967! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara : Derema, Scheffler, 142! 
8. M. sessilis, Sprague. A shrub or tree, 5-30 ft. high; 
branchlets pubescent or puberulous. Leaves 9-21 in. long; leaflets 
11-15, ovate, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, 3-7} in. 
long, 1-3 in. broad, entire or serrulate, glabrous above, except the 
veins (rarely puberulous), finely pubescent or glabrescent below; 
pseudostipules subulate, 4—5 lin. long, pubescent. Raceme terminal, 
oblong, elongated, tomentose ; lateral cymes sessile. Pedicels 3-4 lin. 
long. Calyx 11-14 lin. long, rostrate, split down to within 3 lin. from 
the base, shortly tomentose; beak 24-4 lin. long. Corolla yellow, with 
reddish stripes ; tube 18-19 lin. long; basal cylindric portion 3-4 lin. 
long, 13-12 lin. in diam. ; lobes conspicuously glandular. Stamens in- 
serted 34-44 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube ; filaments slightly 
thickened and furfuraceous at the base ; anther-lobes 14—13 lin. long. 
Dise annular, 3 lin. high. Ovary 4—5 lin. long, glabrous ; stigma-lobes 
elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, entire or dentate. Capsule slightly curved, 
14-3 ft. long, 8-9 lin. broad, finely tomentose ; seeds 13-184 lin. long, 
3-34 lin. broad; nucleus 44-53 lin. long.— Muenteria tomentosa, Seem. 
in Journ. Bot. 1865, 330, t. 35, partly (as regards figure and Angola 
plant, exel. synonyms). Markhamia tomentosa, Hiern, Cat. Afr. P!. 
Welw. i. 792, not of K. Schum. 
,_ ower Guinea. Lower Congo, Smith! Angola: Golungo Alto; near 
Sange, at the base of the Serra de Alto Queta, Welwitsch, 485! azaong the moun- 
tains of Cungalungulo, Welwitsch, 485b! and fruit, 815! 
