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Sierra Leone : Smijthe, 5 ! Berea, Falaba, Scott Elliot, 5206 ! 

 Kotiu Mt., Scott Elliot, 4608 ! Liberia : Johnstonl Gola ; Bunting ! 

 Gold Coast : Aquapim, Beach ! Ashanti, Tedlie ! (nom. vulg. 

 "Dammaram") Cummins, 3p ! Thompson, 52 ! Cameroon : Mann, 

 1278 ! Prcuss, 766 ! Buea, Deistcl, 642 ! Yaunde, Zenker & 

 Staudt, 30! 246! Johann-Albrechtshohe, Stanch, 965 ! Bitye, 

 B. Ja, Bates, 615 ! Mopanga, Kalbreyer, 93 ! Chari ; Chevalier, 

 10,572 ! Congo Basin : Bull ! Kasai, Lubefu Lusunbo, Kassner, 

 3318! Angola: Cazengo, Gossicciler, 752! Loango, Soyaux, 

 179 ! Pungo Andongo, Welicitsch, 1115 ! 1116 ! Bunhi, Monteiro ! 

 Central Africa: Niamniain-land, Schiveinfurth, 3860 ! Monbuttu- 

 land, Schiveinfurth, 3639. Uganda : Doggett ! Unyoro to Ankole, 

 Mrs. Tufnell ! Unyoro, £?w?i, 401 ! Daive, 1028 ! Foweira, 

 3400 ft., Bagshawe, 1574 ! Hbb. Mus. Brit., Kew. 



A climbing shrub, to a height of 40 ft., in the lowlands ; a 

 small erect shrub, 4-6 ft., at higher altitudes. 



27. M. tristigmatica Cummins in Kew Bull. (1898), 74. 

 Gold Coast : Axim, Johnson, 877 ! Dajon, near Axim, in 



rain-forest, Chipp, 169 ! Ashanti, near Assin Yan Kumassi, 

 Cummins, 41! 113! Kwalue, 2000 ft., Johnson, 716! Ivory 

 Coast, Bingerville : Abidjean, Dabon, Chevalier, 15,173 ! Hbb. 

 Mus. Brit., Kew. 



28. M. Zenkeri Wernham, sp. nov. Bamulis glabratis v. 

 pilis nonnullis arete appressis indutis, foliis obovatis utrinque 

 glabris breviter acuminatis basi acutis 11-16 cm. x 5-7*5 cm., 

 petiolo sparsissime strigoso ad 2-5 cm. longo, venis secundariis 

 utrinque 10-15, venis tertiariis tenuibus conspicuis flavo-albidis ; 

 inflorescentia pauciflora pedunculis primariis sparse strigillosis 

 3-5-5 cm. ; floribus majusculis, calycis lobis oblongis parum 

 acuminatis acutis ca. 1-5 cm. x 5 mm. extus fere glabris ; corolla 

 tubo extus dense appresse piloso 3 cm. longo 4 mm. lato, limbo 

 3-4 cm. diam., lobis oblongo-ovalibus 1-8 cm. x 1 cm. apice 

 rotundato ; ovario sparsiuscule griseo-sericeo. 



Cameroon : Yaunde, Zenker, 1516 ! 2600 ft., Zenker & Staudt, 

 422 ! Hbb. Mus. Brit., Kew. 



The corolla resembles that of M. elegans, the nearest ally, the 

 limb being of the ample, conspicuous type ; but our new species is 

 easily distinguished by the glabrous leaves and broad calyx-lobes. 



29. M. elegans Sch. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PL 117 (1828). 

 M. discolor Thonn. ex DC. Prod. iv. 372. Gardenia coccinea 

 G. Don in Edin. Phil. Journ. xi. 343 (1824). Bertiera coccinea 

 G. Don, Germ. Syst. iii. 506. 



Senegal: Heudelot, 806! Kangola, Chevalier, 850! Sierra 

 Leone : Afzelius ! Barter ! Don ! Miss Turner ! Vogel, 51 ! 

 Whitfield ! Wilford ! Sherbro, Kegent, Lokko, Scott Elliot, 

 5795 ! 5871 ! 5817 ! Bagroo River, Mann, 844 ! Liberia : 

 Gola Forest, Yumboo, Bunting ! Gold Coast : Johnson ! Beade ! 

 Chipp, 231 ! Cape Coast, Brass ! Aquapim, Vogel, 841 ! 

 Ewe, Krause ! Togo: Baumann, 198! Lagos: Macgregor, 714! 

 Bowland ! Dodd, 418 ! Yoruba, Moloney ! S. Nigeria : Baikie ! 



