Trachyphrynium.] CXXXIV. SCITAMINEE (BAKER). 319 
acuminate, pilose, connate in the lower half. Outer staminodia obovate, 
obtuse. Capsule trigonous, densely echinate, 2 in. diam.; valves 
acutely keeled. Seeds globose. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: near Barombi, Preuss, 32, 321! 340; low forest 
between Barombi and Kumba, Preuss, 60; forest north-west of M akonje, Preuss, 78 ; 
between Kumba-Nenga and Mambanga, Preuss, 144! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Forest, Buettner, 541, 544, 
2. T. danckelmannianum, J. Braun & Schumann in Mitth. 
Deutsch. Schultzgeb. ii. (1889) 153. Branchlets woody, terete,stramineous, 
armed with small hooked spines. Leaves oblong, acute, firm, glabrous, 
3-5 in. long, 14—2 in. broad, rounded at the base; sheaths glabrous, 
2-3 in. long; thickened free apex of the petiole 4 in. long. Inflor- 
escence simple, with a very flexuose rhachis and very short internodes ; 
bracts orbicular, erecto-patent, glabrous, 2 in. long and broad. Ovary 
densely hairy. Flower 4 in. long. Sepals small, lanceolate. Corolla- 
tube longer than the sepals. Fruit densely echtnate, "2 in. diam. ; 
valves rounded on the back.—Schumann in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 429, figs. 
i, M 432. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: common in woods, Braun! near Bipinde in 
forest, Zenker, 929! near Barombi, Preuss, 255! 407! Yaunde, Zenker & Staudt, 
610! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyauz, 85! 
3. T. braunianum, Baker. A tall shrub, with terete, woody, 
stramineous, unarmed, sarmentose branchlets. Leaves firm, glabrous, 
oblong, cuspidate, 3-6 in. long, 14-3 in. broad, rounded at the base ; 
sheaths glabrous, 2—4 in. long ; free thickened apex of the petiole } in. 
long. Inflorescence simple, spreading from the tip of the stem ; rhachis 
pubescent, flexuose ; internodes about 4 in. long ; bracts oblong-lanceolate, 
#-1 in. long. Flowers in pairs, whitish, 1 in. long. ` Sepals lanceolate, 
pubescent, 4 in. long. Outer staminodia obovate, twice as long as the 
sepals. Capsule subglobose, densely muricate, $ in. diam. Seed 
subglobose, brown, 4 in. diam., with a large basal aril.— Hybophry- 
nium braunianum, Schumann in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 428, 429, figs. A, 
F, H, K. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: in a ravine near Mount Leicester, Barter ! 
near Wilberforce, Johnston ! woods near Kambia, Scott-Elliot, 4508! near Kafogo, 
Scott-Elliot, 4464! Duunia, Scott-Elliot, 4884! and without precise locality, 
Afzelius! Don! Gold Coast, Burton d Cameron! Lagos, Moloney! Yoruba, 
Moloney ! Western Lagos, Rowland! Niger Delta: Abo (Ibu), Vogel, 13! Lower 
Niger: Onitsa, Barter, 1784! Old Calabar, Thomson, 108! Cameroons: Cameroon 
River, Mann, 2146! Batanga; near Lobe River, Bates, 201! on the Tobacco Farm 
of Kriby, in low forest, Preuss, 256. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Niamniam; Atasilli Brook, Schweinfurth, 
3061! Mbrwole River, Schweinfurth, 3085! Nabambisso River, Schweinfurth, 2934, 
3044, 3713. 
Lower Guinea. Corisco Bay, Mann, 1909! Lower Congo: Stanley pool, 
Callewaert ! left bank of the Congo below Kobaka, Buettner, 546! 
