Tab. 5859. 

 TABERN^MONTANA Barteri. 



Mr. Barter s Tabernamontana. 



Nat. Ord. Apocyne^. — Pentandria Monogynia. 

 Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 5226.) 



Tabernamontana Barteri ; glabra, ramulis dichotomis, foliis breviter petio- 

 latis elliptico-oblongis ovatis v.-lanceolatis utrinque acuminatis mte- 

 gerrimis membranaceis, pedunculis 3 -co floris, bracteis parvis oyato- 

 oblongis acutis sepalis { poll, longis oblongis obtusis dimidio brevionbus, 

 corolla? 2 poll. diam. albaj tubo ultra calycem contracto, supra medium 

 infundibuliformi, lobis oblique cuneato-obovatis, follicuhs ovoideo- 

 oblongis falcato-recurvis rostratis 1^ poll, longis. 



A handsome shrub, six to eight feet high, discovered by 

 the lamented collector Barter during Baikie's Niger Expe- 

 dition at Eppah, and since collected by Dr. Irving at Abeo- 

 kuta in the interior of the Slave Coast, and by Mann on the 

 Old Calabar river. From the latter country live plants were 

 sent by the Bev.W. C. Thomson of Old Calabar to the Edin- 

 burgh Botanic Gardens, whence the specimen here figured 

 was sent to Kew by Mr. M'Nab, and flowered m spring of 

 the present year. As a species it is closely allied to the 

 T. subsessilis, Benth., a native of Liberia and Ambas bay to 

 the westward, but differs decisively in the leaf being narrowed 

 into an acute base; the follicles are also more recurved and 



beaked. . . „ T . , 



Desck. A glabrous erect shrub, six to eight feet high. 

 Branches dichotomous, terete, slender, covered with white 

 bark, voung green. Leaves three to six inches long, bright 

 green; elliptic- or oblong- or lanceolate- or obovate-el hptic 

 acuminate at both extremities, dark green on both surfaces, 

 six- to eight-nerved on each side of the midrib; petiole very 

 short. Peduncle half to one inch long, naked, several-flowered ; 



SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1870. 



