FLORA NIGRITIANA. 395 
of a small cup-shaped calycine limb; it is two-celled, with 
stipitate bifid plaeentz, and innumerable small flat angular 
seeds, not imbedded in pulp. The plant is therefore not a 
Wendiandia any more than the other West African species 
referred to that genus by Don. The specimen is without 
flowers, the habit and inflorescence are those of Bertiera, the 
leaves are 8 or 10 inches long, the branches of the thyrsus very 
short. The fruit, however, is much larger, and differently 
shaped from that of any Bertiera I am acquainted with; the 
genus must therefore remain in some measure doubtful. . 
1. Pouchetia Africana, DC. Prod. 4. p. 393.—Wendlandia 
virgata, G. Don, Gard. Dict. 8. p. 519.—Sierra Leone, 
Vogel, Don ; Senegal. 
Pedicelli calyce duplo longiores. Ovula in quoque loculo plu- 
rima, ab apice loculi pendula. 
2. Pouchetia parviflora, Benth. ; foliis ovatis acuminatis, stipulis 
petiolo sublongioribus, floribus sessilibus in paniculis axilla- 
ribus fasciculatis.— Fernando Po, Vogel. 
Arbor parva, ramis horizontalibus foliisque distichis ex Vog. 
folia pinnata simulantibus, tota glaberrima excepta pube in 
inflorescentia parca, ramulis teretibus ad nodos compressis. 
Folia breviter petiolata, 3-4-pollicaria, acumine sæpe semi- 
pollicari v. longiore, basi acuta, chartacea, siccitate fusca, 
subtus pallida. Stipule late, longiuscule acuminate, ca- 
Tinate, integre, 2-4 lin. longe. Panicule opposite, folia 
Subzquantes, parum ramos, floribus interrupte fasciculatis 
sessilibus quam in P. Africana multo minoribus. Bractea 
minute. Calyces semilineam longi, dentibus 5 acutis. 
Corolla alba, infundibuliformis, tubo 3 lin. longo, limbo tubo 
equilongo 5-fido, laciniis oblongis patentibus, sestivatione im- 
bricatis. Stamina ad faucem inserta, filamentis brevissimis, 
antheris oblongo-linearibus exsertis. Sfy/us supra medium 
bifidus. Ovarium biloeulare, ovulis in quoque loculo ge- 
minis, ab apice loculi pendulis. Fructus non vidi. 
Wendlandia sulcata, of Don, from Sierra Leone, may be 
another Bertiera or Pouchetia, but there is no specimen in his 
collection which I can identify with his description. The labels 
