It may eventually prove to be a distinct but closely al- 
lied species. 
In the Flora of West Tropical Africa I used the epi- 
thet Braunu for this species under the mistaken impres- 
sion that the portion of Volume 5 of Durand and Schinz’s 
Conspectus in which it was first published appeared in 
1892, a year before Kraenzlin’s publication of the epithet 
Metteniae, both being based on the same type. On fur- 
ther examination of the evidence I am led to the view 
that the whole of the volume in question was not pub- 
lished until 1895 thus giving Kraenzlin’s epithet two 
year’s priority. 
Nigerta: Lagos, Moloney. 
Cameroons: no locality, Braun 19 (Tyre). 
Sr. Tuomas: Angolares, Lagoa Angra de S. Joao, Quintas 12 (fruit 
only). 
Ucanpna: Entebbe, Fyffe 70; near Bajo, Diimmer 2825. 
8. Ancistrorhynchus ovatus Swmmerhayes sp. nov. 
affinis 4. glomerato (Ridl.) Summerh. et 4. Metteniae 
(Kraenzl.) Summerh., ab hoe calcari quam labello fere 
duplo longiore, ab utroque labello ovato integro_ basi 
columnam haud involvente distinguitur. 
Herba epiphytica; caulis usque ad 20 cm. longus, fere 
5 mm. diametro, superne foliatus, inferne vaginis foli- 
orum delapsorum + obtectus, radices ramosas flexuosas 
squamuloso-rugulosas 1-2 mm. diametro emittens. Mola 
basi imbricata, suberecta, patentia vel rarius recurvata, 
lineari-ligulata, supra articulum 7-19 cm. longa, 5-14 
mm. lata, basi vix angustata, apice inaequaliter bilobata, 
lobis rotundatis vel rotundato-acutis interdum brevissime 
bilobulatis vel retusis lobo longiore usque ad 1 cm. longo, 
superne plana, basi conduplicata, costa supra impressa 
subtus leviter carinata. Inflorescentiae ex axillis foliorum 
inferiorum exortae, sessiles, globoso-vel ovoideo-capita- 
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