290 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
1. Connarus Africanus, Lam. Dict. 2. p. 95.—Omphalobium 
Africanum, DC. Prod. 2. p. 85.—Sierra Leone, Don. 
Two other W. African species of Connarus have been pub- 
lished: C. floribundus, Schum. et Thonn. (Omphalobium Thon- 
ningii, DC.) from Guinea, and O. Smeathmanni, DC., from 
Sierra Leone. 
1. Rourea coccinea, Hook. fil. ; glabra, foliolis 7-11 (parvis) 
oblique ovali-ellipticis orbiculatisve obtussissimis retusisve 
membranaceis v. demum coriaceis reticulatis, eymis laxe 3-5- 
floris, staminibus stylos duplo superantibus.—Byrsocarpus 
coccinea, Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. p. 226.—Cape Palmas, 
Accra and on the Quorra, Vogel; Senegambia, Heudelot ; 
Guinea, Thonning. 
The leaflets vary much in number, breadth and consistence, 
but these differences appear to depend much on age and on the 
vigour of the shoots; they seldom attain an inch in length. 
Small stipules may often be observed on the young sterile shoots. 
The flowers are precisely those of the true Rowrea, the stamens 
most decidedly hypogynous, the ovaries hairy, the pod smooth, 
of a bright scarlet when fresh, and straighter than in most 
Rouree, but not otherwise differing from the generic type. 
Schumacher and Thonning describe a second species of 
Rourea from Guinea, under the name of Byrsocarpus puniced, 
and Omphalobium villosum, DC., from Sierra Leone and Sene- 
gambia, is a third. To the latter species may probably be 
referred the Cnestis obliqua, Pal. de Beauv., from Oware- I 
have a fourth unpublished species, gathered by Captain Middle- 
ton at Grand Bassa, remarkable in the calyx, which is only very 
shortly divided into five imbricately æstivated lobes, or rather 
teeth, and in the stamens less distinetly hypogynous, although 
in the absence of fruit it cannot be generically distinguished 
from Rourea. 
l. Cnestis corniculata, Lam. Dict. 9. p. 23 ?—Grand Bassa, 
Vogel. 
Frutex, ex Vog., arborescens. Ramuli et foliorum juniorum 
petioli communes ferrugineo-villosi, demum glabrati et verru- 
culosi. Stipule parve, rigide, acutissime. Foliola 7-9, 
