388 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
Caulis subherbaceus, erectus, subsimplex, ramis tetragonis ad 
nodos superiores compressiusculis. Folia breviter petiolata, 
majora 8-10 poll. longa, 24-3 poll. lata, apice breviter acu- 
minata v. acutiuscula, basi oblique obtusa v. cordata, coriacea, 
penninervia. Stipule lato-lanceolate, interdum fere polli- 
cares. Corymbus axillaris, breviter pedunculatus, divisus m 
ramos plures 2-4-floros et fere in paniculam elongatus. Pe- 
dicelli ebracteati, circiter semipollicares. Calycis tubi pars 
adnata (seu ovarium) lineam longa, limbus ovario fere zqui- 
longus. Corolle tubus tenuis, 4-5 poll. longus, limbi lobis 
angustis pollice brevioribus, zstivatione imbricata. Anthere 
paullo infra apicem tubi subsessiles, lineares, apiculo brevi 
terminate. Ovarium biloculare; placentis peltatis, ovulis 
numerosis haud immersis. Stylus tubum corolle subequans, 
apice fusiformis et acute brevissimeque bifidus. : 
3. Oxyanthus Thonningii, Benth.; pubescens, foliis oblongis 
basi valde obliquis truncatis, racemis brevibus plurifloris, 
calycis dentibus acuminatissimis.— Ucriana racemosa, Schum. 
et Thonn. Beskr. p. 107.—Accra, Vogel. š 
Although the specimen is only in young fruit, without 
flowers, I have no hesitation in referring it to Thonning’s plant, 
both from its description, and from the identity of the station 
The ealyx and the form of the leaves at the base prevent the 
uniting it with O. hirsutus, and the pubescence distinguishes it 
from O. speciosus. 
8. Oxyanthus breviflorus, Benth.; glaberrimus, ramis ad nodos 
' compressis, folis amplis oblongis basi obliquis, corymbis 
multifloris, calycis dentibus brevissimis obsoletisve, coro 
tubo brevi.—Fernando Po, Vogel. 
The leaves and inflorescence are exactly those of O. formosus, 
the flowers are too young to judge of their exact size, but they 
are evidently so very much shorter than those of O. formosus, 
and the teeth of the calyx so small or so nearly obsolete, that 
the specimens cannot belong to that species, nor yet to either of 
those described in the Prodromus. The branches are also 
much more compressed under the leaves, and the stipules 
