96 SOUTH NIGERIAN PLANTS 
peduncles 1 cm. or so long, and very slender branches of thrice that 
length. Bracts 2-3 mm. long, ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, 
minutely silky pubescent on the back. Pedicels usually 1-2 mm. 
long. -Perianth-tube 1:25 mm. long; lobes 1:5 mm. ciliolate. 
Stamens of the two outer whorls 1:15 x 0:8 mm., of the extrorse 
whorl 1:15 mm. long, the glands at the*base of these obovoid and 
nearly 1 mm. in length. Staminodia barely 1 mm. long. Ovary 
"5 mm. Style nearly 1 mm. long. 
Allied to the last. It differs from T. longipes Stapf, inter alia, 
in the more shortly petioled shining conspicuously nerved leaves, the 
persistent braets, the smaller flowers on shorter pedicels and the 
diverse stamens. 
Tylostemon ($ Ennearrhena) foliosus S. Moore sp. nov. 
Frutex ramis subteretibus glabris cortice badio obductis ; foliis 
mediocribus breviter petiolatis ellipticis utrinque obtusis coriaceis 
glabris; paniculis terminalibus nisi ex axillis summis oriundis 
quam folia multoties brevioribus e ramulis paucis patentibus 
sistentibus subtiliter fulvo-pubescentibus ; bracteis satis perspicuis 
ovato-cymbiformibus acutis dorso minute fulvo-tomentosis ; 
pedicellis flores plerumque aequantibus vel excedentibus ; peri- 
anthii turbinati extus minute pubescentis intus fere glabri lobis 
quam tubus brevioribus suborbicularibus margine ciliolatis ; 
staminum serr. 1 & 2 filamentis brevibus quam antherae sub- 
orbiculares deorsum necnon dorso villosae angustioribus ; staminum 
ser. 3 filamentis latis villosis antheras conoideas glabras circa 
aequantibus biglandulosis ; staminodiis triangularibus acutis 
villosis; ovario subgloboso glabro quam stylus glaber crassus 
apicem versus attenuatus paullulum breviore. ` 
- Oban; n. 2342. 
A bushy shrub. Leaves 12-18 x 3-4 cm., drying olive-green above 
and brown below; lateral nerves 7-8 pairs, dividing and inarching at 
some little distance from the midrib, together with the reticulum 
prominent on both sides of the leaf; petioles about 1 cm. long, stout, 
channelled above, drying black. Panicles 1-3 cm. long, from less 
than 1 em. to nearly 4 em. across, the latter measurement referring 
to the terminal inflorescence. Bracts 3-4 mm. long. Pedicels often 
8-4 mm. in length, those of flowers at the top of the branchlets often 
reduced to 1 mm. Flowers 2 mm. long, and the same in diameter; 
tube 1:25 mm., lobes '75 mm. long. Stamens of whorls I. and II. 
not quite 1 mm. long, of the third whorl 1 mm.; glands of the latter 
small, about "2 mm. in diameter. Staminodes "8 mm. long. Ovary 
about :75 in diameter. Style 1 mm. long. 
In foliage this is very like T. obscurus Stapf, but that has 
markedly smaller flowers, besides belonging to the $ Hexarrhena, 
Its position in the genus seems to be next T. cinnamomeus Stapf. 
