282 THE JOUENAL OF BOTANY 



No. 1334. " Reclining or trailing shrub. Corolla yellowish-green, 

 stigma white." 



This species has apparently not been recorded from any locality 

 east of Nigeria. 



VAi!<^auERTA UMBELLULATA Hiem in Flor. Trop. Afr. iii. 150. 



Nos. 1179, 1887. " Shrub 6 or 8 feet high, with many slender 

 horizontal branches; forest. Corolla ^^ello wish-green, stigma dark." 



This species was described from a plant preserved in the National 

 Herbarium, collected by W. Brass, at the end of the eighteenth 

 centur}", in the Cape Coast neighbourhood. Welwitsch collected 

 specimens (nos. 5348, 5349) undoubtedly referable to the same species ; 

 so that its discovery in the Cameroons provides an interesting distri- 

 butional link. 



Payetta permobesta Wernham in Journ. Bot. liv. 227 (1916). 



Nos. 1203, 1818. "Small shrub, cut off at ground; forest. 

 Flowers white." I based the description of this species upon a 

 previous Bates-number, 716, collected in the same locality. 



Morinda Batesii, sp. nov. 



Arbor majuscula ramulis pro rata gracilibus glabris insigniter 

 quadi-angularibus. Folia inter majora papyracea glabra, elliptica 

 apice vix acuminata subacuta, basi cuneata pefiolo brevissimo ; vence 

 laterales primarise utrinque ca. 7 ; stipulce late triangulares parvae. 

 Capitula parva pedunculis gracilibus in axillis binis. Flores inter 

 minores, coroUce tubo gracili necnon breviusculo, lobis lanceolatis 

 subacutis. 



No. 1185. *• Tree over 75 ft. high, stump over 2 ft. in diam. ; 

 called atyen (acheng) ; forest. Corolla pale-green, the lobes white 

 on upper surface." 



The nearest affinity is with M. (jeminaia DC. (see Hutchinson, 

 in Kew Bull, 1916, p. 8) from which our species is distinct especially 

 in the slender branches and peduncles, and the much smaller corolla. 

 It is moreover quite a large tree — a good deal more than twice the 

 size of M. (jeminaia. Leaves -± 17 cm. X 8 cm., with stalk not 

 longer than 8 mm. ; sfijniles 5 mm. long, and about the same in 

 width at base. Pedancle 3-6 cm., or longer at maturity. Corolla- 

 tube up to ]*7 cm. long, but not much over 1 cm. wide even at 

 the mouth ; lobes 6 mm. long, 1*3 mm. broad. 



PsTCHOTETA LATiSTTPULA Benth. in Hook. Nig. Flor. 420. 



No. 1407. " Small shrub." This s;pecies was discovered originally 

 in the island of FeiTiando Po. Mr. Bates has found it previously in 

 the Batanga district (no. 227) and in Bitye (nos. 624, 914). 



Cephaelis PEDUNCULAEis Salisb. Parad. t. 99 (1808) ; Hiern in 

 Flor. Tro]). Afr. iii. 228. 



No. 1359! " Much -branching shrub, head-high, or higher; 

 forest. Flowers and bmcts white." 



Widely distributed over western tropical Africa, from Senegambia 

 in the north to Angola in the south ; collected also by Bagshawe in 

 Uganda (no. 1856 ! in Hb. Mus. Brit.). 



