Barteria. | LXIII, PASSIFLOREH (MASTERS). 511 
sisting of 2-4 flowers, each of which is invested by a series of over- 
lapping coriaceous chestnut-coloured acute or cuspidate bracts. Flower- 
tube very short, glabrous. Sepals 5, somewhat coriaceous, oblong- 
lanceolate or obtuse, downy and golden brown on the outer side, smooth 
and whitish within. Petals oblong, wider than the sepals and about 
equal to them in length, white. Stamens hypogynous or slightly 
perigynous; filaments slender. Ovary smooth ; style simple, as lon 
as the filaments and terminated by a large sonra ochtonediapiad 
Stigma. Fruit ovoid, about the size of a pigeon’s egg, coriaceous, red- 
dish, 1-celled, with numerous compressed pitted seeds attached to 
parietal placentas. 
Upper Guinea. Nun river, Niger, Barter! Gaboon, Mann! Bonny river, 
Mann! Old Calabar, Thomson! 
_2. B. fistulosa, Vast. A small tree with angular, smooth or len- 
ticellate, fistular branches. Leaves leathery, 10-12 in. long, 3-4 in. 
wide, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 1-nerved, somewhat narrower at the base 
which is decurrent along the branch. Stipules 0. Flowers sessile, in 
linear clusters emerging from the stem between it and the decurrent 
edges of the leaf, each encircled at the base by numerous overlapping 
leathery shining chestnut-coloured oblong obtuse or boat-shaped bracts 
increasing in size from below upwards. Flowers smaller than those of 
B. nigritiana. Sepals and petals downy on the outside, lanceolate, 
Wavy at the margins. Corona and inner organs of the flower as in the 
last-named species but smaller. Anthers apiculate 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann! : 
The so-called decurrent leaves would probably be more correctly described as con- 
genitally adnate to the branch for some distance. The manner in which the flowers 
emerge from between the sides of the base of the leaf and the stem is very curious. 
6. CROSSOSTEMMA, Planch.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. i. 813. 
Flowers dichlamydeous, hermaphrodite. Flower-tube very short, 
Saucer-shaped, bearing at the top 5 ovate calyx-lobes each traversed 
bya single nerve. Petals 5, springing from the mouth of the flower- 
tube, of the same form and size as the calyx-lobes but 8—5 nerved. 
Corona of one row of filaments emerging’ pes gg within the petals. 
Gynophore short, dilated above into a cup-shaped body which latter 
ears 5 stamens alternating with an equal number of short triangular 
acute erect teeth; filaments short, anthers linear oblong. Ovary ses- 
sile in the cup of the gynophore, oblong, triquetrous, tapering above 
into a short style surmounted by a large entire stigma, one-celled with 
three parietal placentas; ovules numerous in two rows on each placenta. 
tut... ?—A climbing tendril-bearing shrub with stalked: leaves 
and axillary flowers. rr 
The above description is taken from that of Planchon. 
; lc, laurifolium, Planch. in Hook. Fl. Nigrit. 365, A climbiug 
shrub, glabrous throughout, Leaves subcoriaceous, slightly glossy, 
