258 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
v: obtusis post fructus delapsos patentibus sinubus reflexis.— 
Sierra Leone, Whitfield; Grand Bassa and Fernando Po, 
Vogel; Senegal. 
The specimen described by Sir J. Smith was a small-leaved 
one, hence his name is not very appropriate although there do 
‘not appear to be sufficient grounds for changing it. The species 
‘is so closely allied to a common, although hitherto undescribed 
‘Brasilian species,* that one is almost tempted to consider it as a 
mere variety. "The leaves are, however, usually rather smaller, 
narrower and thinner, and the divisions of the enlarged calyx 
not so blunt, with the sinus more reflexed. Both, however, may 
be mere forms of H. cauliflora, Sm.+ 
Some specimens, in leaf only, gathered by Vogel in the woods 
of Fernando Po, and stated by him to be those of a shrub 
bearing a bitter fruit called Kola, of which the seeds are chewed 
‘by the natives, are conjectured by Dr. Planchon to belong to 2 
new species of Heisteria, but there is no evidence to confirm 
the supposition, and some remains of flower-stalks seem to show 
an inflorescence very different from that of Heisteria. i 
1. Strombosia ? grandifolia, Hook. fil. ; foliis amplis obovali- v. 
elliptico-oblongis acuminatis, floribus axillaribus congestis bre- 
viter pedicellatis, calycis brevissime adhzrentis limbo profunde 
5-fido, ovario sublibero triovulato, stigmate obsolete trilobo.— 
Fernando Po, Vogel. 3 
Frutex arborescens (ex Vog.) Rami teretes, leves, graciles, a 
tota planta glaberrimi. Folia 5-7 poll. longa, 3-4 poll. lata, 
petiolo semipollicari, apice in acumen subsemipollicare pro- 
ducta, margine integerrima v. undulato-sinuata, basi rotundata 
v. cuneato-acutata, submembranacea, nitida, costa yalida et 
` * H. Raddiana, (Benth MS.) "ramulis subangulatis, foliis ovatis oblon- 
gisve obtusis v. breviter acuminatis crasso-coriaceis nitidis, calycis fruc- 
tiferi profunde lobati lobis ovato-orbicularibus obtusissimis post fructus 
delapsos patentibus, sinubus subreflexis.—Rio Janeiro, Raddi, Gardner, 
5379 and 5378 ? 
_ t To this I should refer, besides Cayenne specimens, Hostmann’s n. 
cies Surinam, and Gardner's n. 2516, 2787, and 5974, from Tropical 
Brasil. š 
