FLORA NIGRITIANA. 403 
latis obtusiusculis. Corolla intus extusque glabra; tubus 
fere 5 lin. longus, tenuis, superne abrupte ampliatus et sub 
limbo constrictus ; limbi lacinie 14 lim. longs, estivatione 
levissime imbricate. ^ Capsula compresso-globosa, calycis 
tubo ommino adnato fere duplo longior, apice loculicide 
dehiscens, ad medium dentibus calycinis parvis circumdata, 
Semina plurima (in quoque loculo 8-10), placentis crassius- 
culis semiimmersa, ovoidea, lateraliter affixa. 
2. Kohautia parviflora, Benth. ; foliis lineari-subulatis margine 
subrevolutis, stipulis vaginantibus utrinque bisetis, floribus 
secus ramos panicule 2-3-chotomos breviter pedicellatis sub- 
fasciculatis, coroll parve laciniis oblongis, calycis dentibus 
. acutissimis capsulam superantibus.—Attah and Accra, Vogel, 
Ansell, Dan. 
Caules ramosissimi, erecti, virgati, graciles, glabri. Folia tenuia, 
rigidula, majora pollicaria, pleraque multo minora. Inflo- 
rescentia irregulariter fasciculato-corymbosa, pedicellis ultimis 
Szepius calyce brevioribus v. paullo longioribus. Dentes ca- 
lycini tubo calycis florentis turbinato longiores, acutissimi. 
Corolla vix 2 lin. longa, laciniis limbi zstivatione subvalvatis, 
ceterum uti anthere et stylus omnino Kohautie. Capsula 
compressa-globosa, subdidyma, vix apice brevissime libera, 
dentibus calycinis acutissimis distantibus coronata, loculicide 
bivalvis. Placentæ crassiuscule, seminibus numerosis angu- 
latis semiimmersis. 
This may possibly be the Hedyotis stricta, Sm., from Sierra 
Leone, but it certainly is not the Kohautia stricta, DC., from 
Senegal, which that author describes as having the tube of the 
Corolla 5 lines long. : 
Besides the K. stricta, there are three other W. African 
Species known, all from Senegal, viz.: K. grandiflora, DC., 
K. Senegalensis, Cham. Schl., and an undescribed small-flowered 
one; 
1. Oldenlandia virgata, DC. Prod. 4. p. 425.—Accra, Don; 
Sierra Leone. 
2. Oldenlandia herbacea, DC. Prod. 4. p. 455 ? var. cwespitosa, 
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