476 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
brata. Flores axillares, pedunculati, solitarii v. ad apices 
ramulorum pauci, pro genere parvi. Bractee membranacez, — 
acute, 5 lin. longs. Calyx brevissimus, late et obtuse usque 
ad medium divisus. Corolla alba, pollice brevior. Anthere 
basi pilose, inter se subzequales, loculo altero calcarato, altero 
(an in omnibus?) mutico. Stylus apice infundibuliformis. 
Capsula globosa, vix minutissime tomentella, rostro capsula - 
ipsa longiore. 
There is but a single corolla with the specimen, and in this 
one I saw five spurred cells of anthers, but I was unable 
to ascertain whether the fifth arose from a fifth stamen acci- 
dentally developped, or from the second cell of one of the 
other anthers, the whole being much crushed in drying. is 
4. Thunbergia? Vogeliana, Benth.; scandens?, glabra, folis 
ovatis oblongisve integerrimis basi angustatis rotundatisve 
utrinque papuloso-scabris, pedicellis axillaribus unifloris, €a- 
lyce sub-12-fido.—Fernando Po, Vogel. : 
Rami lignosi, angulati, flexuosi et seandentes videntur etsi VIX 
volubiles, glabri preter pubem ad nodos juniores fasciculatam 
demum evanidam. Folia 3-4-pollicaria, breviter petiolata, 
acuminata v. obtusa, venosa, rigidule chartacea, utrinque 
tactu scabra. Pedicelli pollicares. Bractee  pollicares, 
ovate, obtuse, primum rubre, demum rubro-albe v. albæ. 
Calyx brevis, lobis circa 12 inzqualibus subulatis. Corolla 
(quam ipse non vidi) sec. Vogel infundibuliformis est, tubo 
extus albo intus flavo, limbo fusco-ecruleo. Stamina non 
vidi et ideo genus incertum. Habitus potius Meyenie, 
stylus superest apice more Thunbergie ad partem stigma- 
tosam infundibuliformis. 
l. Meyenia erecta, Benth.; glabra, foliis petiolatis ovatis ob- 
longisve aeuminatis basi angustatis, calyce brevissimo sub-12- 
fido, corollæ tubo bracteis quadruplo longiore.— Cape Coast, 
Vogel. 
Frutex 6-8-pedalis, ramulis tenuibus tetragonis. folia 1-2- 
pollicaria, integerrima v. obsolete angulata, membranacea. : 
Pedunculi axillares, uniflori, pollicares. Bractee membra- - 
nacex, semipollicares. Calyx cum lobis raro lineam longus. 
