FLORA NIGRITIANA. 469 
Dict. 4. p. 295.—Sierra Leone, Don; Cape Palmas, Vogel ; 
common in South-east Africa and East India. 
1. Neuropeltis acuminata, Benth.—Porana acuminata, Pal. 
Beauv. Fl. Ow. et Ben. 1. p. 65, t. 89.— Chois. in DC. Prod. 
9. p. 436.— Sierra Leone, Don; Oware. 
The styles being perfectly distinct to the base, had already 
led Beauvois to suspect that this might not be a true congener 
to Burmann's Porana; and Don’s specimen, though without 
flowers, and indifferent as to foliage, yet being in full fruit, with 
enough of leaves to identify it, shows it to be an additional 
species of Wallich's East Indian genus Neuropeltis. It is, 
indeed, near N. ovata, but with a climbing habit and panicu- 
late inflorescence. The enlarged fruit-bearing bracteas are 
broadly ovate, and often above an inch long; the capsule small 
and one- or two-seeded. 
1. Prevostea Africana, Benth.; foliis oblongis longe acumi- 
natis basi cuneatis rigide membranaceis supra glabris, pedi- 
cellis unifloris in axillis confertis, corolla sepalum externum 
duplo excedente.—Codonanthus Africanus, G. Don, Gard. 
Dict. 4. p. 166.—C. alternifolius, Planch. in Hook. Ic. 
t. 796. (Tas. XLVI.)—Sierra Leone, Don. 
Frutex ut videtur subvolubilis. Folia semipedalia, breviter 
petiolata, supra glabra, subtus oculo armato pube minuta con- 
spersa. Florum fasciculi axillares, 3-5-flori, pedicellis 3-6 lin. 
longis, bracteolis minutis angustis ferrugineo-pubescentibus. 
Sepala exteriora late cordato-ovata, 4-44 lin. longa, minute 
puberula, interiora multo minora, acuta. Corolle (ex Don 
albz) forma valde similis illi P. sericea, a Kunthio depicte ; 
tubus tamen paullo amplior et sub limbo evidentius constric- 
tus. Styli inzquales, szpius paullo ultra medium connati. 
Ovarium glabrum, semiseptis ad axin haud attingentibus 
incomplete biloculare. 
I do not see how this plant can be distinguished from Pre- 
vostea, so well described by Kunth under the name of Dufourea. 
l have not, indeed, been enabled to examine any American 
species ; but Kunth’s figure is very satisfactory. The form of 
