448 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
Cyme ad apicem pedunculi 11-2-pollicaris 12-15-flore, ramis 
pedicellisque vix 2 lin. longis. Calycis lobi 14 lin. longi et 
lati, glandulis 7-9 ad basin cujusve lobi. Corollam apertam 
non vidi, alabastrum omnino T. longiflore nisi brevius et 
crassius. Folliculi ex Vog. oblique obovoideo-globosi, carnosi, 
seminibus creberrimis in pulpa nidulantibus. 
The size of the fruit is not stated on Vogel’s label, but this 
is probably the plant he alludes to in his Journal as “a genus 
apparently new and near Tabernemontana, remarkable for 
its double fruit, as large as a child’s head, the seeds nestling in 
the almost woody pulp.” Both the above species are nearly 
allied to T. ventricosa, Hochst., from Port Natal, and with it 
form a very distinct group of Tabernemontana, which from the 
published description I should suspect to be allied to Du re 
Thouars’ Madagascar genus, Voacanga. = 
3. Tabernzmontana subsessilis, Benth.; glabra, ramulis dicho- 
tomis, foliis obovali-oblongis acuminatis inferne angustis et 
ima basi obtusis membranaceis, pedunculis subbifloris, lobis 
calycinis amplis oblongis, corolle tubo calyce subtriplo lon- 
giore supra medium ampliato et staminifero, folliculis ovoideo- 
oblongis acuminatis.—Liberia, Vogel. : 
Valde affinis T. grandiflore, Jacq., (ex America Tropica.) Fi olia 
iis simillima nisi basi ssepius obtusa, cujusve paris uti m 
specie citata inzequalia. Pedunculi communes longiores. Ca- 
lycis laciniz minores (vix 5 lin. longe) et angustiores ; glan- 
dulis in genere normalibus. Corolle tubus paullo longto". 
Folliculi 14-2-pollicares, carnosi, iis T. grandiflore valde 
similes. 
4. Tabernzmontana ? sp.—Sierra Leone, Don. : 
A single specimen, without flowers, with a pair of follicles 
very much like those of the preceding species, but the leaves are 
very different in consistence and venation, and the inflorescence 
appears to have been a compact sessile cyme. As the genus 
must remain doubtful, I refrain from giving it a name. : 
I have not seen the 7. Africana, Hook., from Senegal, Sir 
W. Hooker not having received any specimen from the tra- 
veller for whom he described it. 
