280 THE JOUENAL OF BOTAXY 



Nos. 1171, 1275. 



Allied to H. maculata, as is indicated by the similarity of the 

 flowers, this species is easily distinguished by the size and shape of 

 the leaves ; the latter measure 18-25 cm. X 8-12 cm., the greatest 

 width being in the upper third of the blade ; petiole barely 3 or 4 mm. 

 long ; tube of stipules 3-4 mm. deep. Calyx and ovarif form a 

 funnel rather more than 1*5 cm. long, and about 1*3 cm. wide at the 

 mouth, which is surmounted by the distant and very short teeth. 

 The co;'oZ/«-tube has a total length of about 20 cm. ; at its base the 

 width is 8-9 mm. ; at 17 cm. upwards from the base the width is 

 nearly 2. cm. ; at the mouth, just beneath the base of the lobes, the 

 Avidth is over 5 cm. ; lobes 3*5 cm. long and over 2 cm. broad. The 

 narrowly-linear antliers are nearly 3 cm. long. Lobes of stigma 

 1*7 cm. long and 6-7 mm. broad. 



MoBELTA SENEGALE?fsis A. Kich cx DC. Prod. iv. 617, et in Mem. 

 Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. v. 232 (1834). Randia sp. Benth. & Hook. fil. 

 Gen. PI. ii. 89. 



No. 1210. " Tall weak-stemmed shrub ; forest. Flowers white." 

 Bates collected the same species in 1917 (no. 1046), noting it as " a 

 shrub or ver}"" small tree, 15 ft. Flowers Avhite, -with agreeable 

 perfume." 



This species has a wide and continuous distribution in the African 

 tropics, where it is endemic, from Senegambia in the north and west 

 to Angola in the south and Uganda in the east. 



GAEDE^"TA SPATHICALYX K. Sclium. CX Weriiliam in Cat. Talb. Nig. 

 PI. 131 (1913). 



No. 1356. No note accompanies this specimen. Collected 

 originally by Zenker and Staudt in the Yaunde district; several 

 excellent specimens were discovered later by the Talbots in Nigeria. 

 The flowers are large — six inches or longer — and densely hairj^ on the 

 outside ; the calyx is sj^lit along its whole length on one side, and is 

 divided into 5 long linear lobes on the other. 



Allied to this, but readily distinguishable, is the following: — 



Gabdenia Vogelii Hook. fil. ex Hook. 1. c. viii. 782-3 (1848) ; 

 Hiern in Flor. Trop. Afr. iii. 103 (1877). 



No. 1281. " Small shrub, forest. Corolla white, but tube 

 greenish." 



This species was based upon a plant found by Vogel in the Ibu 

 district of Nigeria. Specimens have been discovered subsequently as 

 far south as the Congo, and eastward in Djur-land and Niam-niam. 



Gabdenia abbeokut.i: Hiern in Flor. Trop. Afr. iii. 104. 



No. 1365. " Climbing high on trees in ekotok that had lately 

 been forest. Flowers yellow." 



This species has been found westward in Nigeria, and as far as 

 Gola, in Liberia. 



Amaralia palustris, sp. nov. 



Frutex seandens, ramulis in juventute dense griseo-sericeis mox 

 cortice striato-rugosulo indutis glabrato validiuseulis. Folia inter 



