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by its climbing habit and the remarkable size of the ovary, even in 

 young buds. The leaves present no notable features ; "thej^ are 

 elliptical, 10-12 cm. X 5-6-5 cm., scarcely acuminate at the apex, 

 which is, however, so sharply acute as to be almost mucronate ; 

 between the main veins the surface is almost glabrous, on both sides, 

 except for a few short stiff adpressed hairs ; the veins are strigose ; 

 leaf-base obtuse; the petiole with indumentum like that of the 

 neighbouring branchlets, is usually less than 1 cm. long. Stipules 

 triangular, 6-7 mm. X 3-4 mm. at base, divided to about one-third of 

 their length into two sharply acute lanceolate-subulate lobes. Flowers 

 sessile in heads, 6 to 9 in each, on peduncles 1*5-2 cm. long, arising 

 at the end of branchlets 4 to 6 together in a corymbose armngement. 

 Ovary 7-8 mm. long, 4-5 mm. broad; small c«/j/^-lobes no longer 

 than 3 mm. ; petaloid lobe comparatively small — about 5 cm. X 2-8 

 cm. — with acuminate base narrowing into a very slender stalk about 

 1*5 cm. long. Corolla-ivibQ scarcely inflated above, and comparatively 

 broad throughout, at most about 2*5 cm. long ; limb not more than 

 8 mm. in diameter. 



Mussaenda leptantha, sp. nov. 



Frutex ramulis zb dense ferrugineo-tomentosis, desuper sub- 

 strigosis pilis nee manifeste tamen deflexis. Folia venis primariis 

 utrinque ca. 9 lateralibus. Calycis lobi pro rata brevissimi anguste 

 lanceolati acuminate acutissimi necnon apice subsetacei tamen 

 dentoidei, uno quoque in flore (exterioribus tantum) petaloideam 

 in laminam magnam producto late ellipticam basi cuneatam in 

 petiolum gracillimum angustatam longiusculum. Corollm tubus 

 angustissimus superiore longitudinis in dimidio paullo oblonge 

 inflatus, extus sericeus, infra glabratus subfilamentosus, limbo 

 angustissimo. 



No. 1212. Allied, like the preceding, to M. ohtusa, from which 

 it differs chiefly in the characters of the corolla; the limb, for 

 example, is little more than half the diameter of that in Krause's 

 species. The leaves and stipules are practically indistinguishable 

 from those of M. hityensis. A striking difference is seen in the 

 ovary and calyx; in the mature flower the former is very small 

 and narrow, the whole length from ovary-base to the tips*^ of the 

 cah^x-lobes not exceeding 4 mm. The coro//«-tube is about 3 cm. 

 long, and no more than 2 mm. wide at most ; the limb is only 

 6-8 mm. in diameter. 



Sabicea cameeoone^^^sis Wernham in Monogr. Sab. 35 (1914). 



Nos. 1170 ! 1382 ! " Small vine, ehotokr Previously collected 

 by Bates (1113 !) in a similar habitat ; otherwise, only by Mildbraed 

 in the Molundu district, upon whose specimen I based the description 

 of this species. A photogra^^h of the type (Herb. Berol.) is in the 

 National Herbarium. 



Sabicea Amomi, sp. nov. 



"Frutex volubilis i-amulis gracilibus, ultimis dense griseo-sericeis 

 tardius sparse strigoso-tomentosis. Folia membmnacea late elliptica 

 vix acuminata subacuta basi subito acuto-acuminata in petiolum 



