280 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
longa, 34-44 lata, margine undulata, pallide flavo-viridia, 
utrinque opaca, consimilia; venis prominulis reticulata, ru- 
gulosa, subcoriacea. Panicula folio longior; ramis strictis, 
ad axillas compressis, gracilibus. Flores lutei. 
Very near a West Indian species common to Demerara and 
St. Vincents, but the leaves are much broader, not marked with 
raised dots, more rugulose and opaque on the upper surface. 
There are five other W. African species of this genus, vid. : 
H. Richardiana, Guill. et Perr. from Senegal; H. Indica, 
Willd., common to Senegambia, the East Indies, and probaby 
Madagascar; H. paniculata, Vahl, ranging from Sierra Leone 
to Senegal ; H. macrophylla, Vahl, from Sierra Leone; and H. 
velutina, Afz., from Guinea. 
l. Salacia prinoides, DC. Prod. 1. p. 571; ramis teretibus 
sparse pustulatis, ramulis compressis, foliis (inferioribus sub- 
oppositis) petiolatis valde coriaceis late elliptieis utrinque 
obtusis integerrimis v. obscure sinuato-dentatis opacis super 
luride virescentibus subter pallidioribus nervis divaricatis, 
pedicellis axillaribus solitariis paucisve aggregatis petiolo zequi- 
longis, lobis calycinis brevibus obtusis, petalis late oblongis 
obtusis, disco elevato, filamentis ovario æquilongis, antheris 
sub-urceolatis.—Grand Bassa, Vogel. 
Frutex ? glaberrimus. Rami cortice atro-castaneo levi obscure 
pustulato tecti. Folia 3-4 unc. longa, 14-2 lata, suprema 
opposita, inferiora approximata, sed vere alterna, super VIX 
nitida, subter pallidiora, venis inconspicuis reticulata ; petiolo 
+ une. longo. Pedicelli validi, erecti, 1-flori, infra florem m- 
crassati. Flores flavo-virides, 1 unc. diametr. Calycis lobi 
lati, coriacei, orbieulati. Petala calyce ter longiora, obtusa, 
fusco-striata. Discus erectus, subelongatus. Filamenta com- 
pressa, ligulata, recurva; antheris rubris, filamento bis 
latioribus, tranverse elongatis, 1-locularibus, rima lata superne 
hiantibus. — - 
I am unable to distinguish this from the Salacia prinoides of 
Malacca, but have given a detailed description of the African 
specimens, with which more copious ones of the Indian species 
than I have had access to, should be compared. 
