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Bracteolae parvae. Calycis glabemmi tubus campanulatus limbus 

 dilatatus ore breviter 4-lobo. Petala parva cuneato-obovata. 

 Stylus filiformis. Bacca deest. Species ad M. strijchnoidem Gilg 

 accedens differt foliis minoribus, floribus minoribus, &c. 



Gola Forest ; fl. April. Petals dark ultramarine colour at 

 base, shading off to white. 



Arbor. Petiolus 3-5 mm. longus. Folia 4-0-6-0 cm. longa, 

 18-26 mm. lata. Calyx 2-5-3-0 mm. latus. Petala circ. 2 mm. 

 longa + 1-5 mm. lata. 



Allied to M. strychnoides Gilg non Baker and to M. Barteri 

 Hook. fil. M. strychnoides Baker was described in the Keio 

 Bulletin, 1895, p. 105, the type being a plant from Lagos, Milieu, 

 no. 168, and is synonymous with M. Milleni Gilg, described by 

 Dr. Gilg in 1898. 



The noticeable features of M. golaense are the rather small 

 3-nerved leaves, and the small flowers in generally 3-flowered 

 pedunculate cymes. 



Begonia Whytei Stapf. Distrib. Liberia. 



Gamopetal^. 



Determined by H. F. Wernham, B.Sc. 



Oldenlandia lancifolia Schweinf. Distrib. Central and West 

 Tropical Africa. 



-■Mussanda erythrophylla Schum. & Thonn. Distrib. Central 

 and West Tropical Africa, Uganda. 



'■'■'•M. elegans Schum. & Thonn. Distrib. Central and West 

 Tropical Africa, Uganda. 



■■'M. grandiflora Benth. Distrib. Sierra Leone. 

 Sabicea discolor Stapf. Distrib. Liberia. 

 Heinsia jasminiflora DC. Distrib. Upper and Lower Guinea, 

 Mozambique. 



'■■'Amaralia hignoniceflora Welw. Distrib. Central Africa, Sierra 

 Leone, Angola. 



'■■'Ciiviera nigrescens comb. nov. Vcmgueria nigrescens Scott 

 Elliott in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. (1894), 80 ; Hook. Icon. pi. xxiii. 

 t. 2283. Distrib. Sierra Leone. 



This plant, which seems undoubtedly to be a Cuviera, differs 

 from Scott Elliott's Vangueria nigrescens only in the length of 

 the caudae which terminate the corolla-lobes ; these in Bunting's 

 plant appear to be longer and more setaceous in character. I 

 think, however, that the two are of one and the same species. 



■'■'•. Psychotria cristata Hiern. Distrib. Niamniam-land, Uganda, 

 Mt. Euwenzori, Angola. 



'^Geophila hirsuta Benth. Distrib. Nigeria, Cameroons. 

 Voacanga caudiflora Stapf. Distrib. Liberia. 

 Callichilia subsessilis Stapf. Distrib. Upper Guinea. 



"•'Crossandra Buntingii S. Moore, sp. nov. Parvula, verisimiliter 

 her])acca, caulc suporne folioso dense pubescento dein glabrescente, 

 foliis parvis brevipetiolatis oblongis vel angustissime oblongo- 

 ovatis obtusis basi leviter cordatis membranaceis supra appresse 



Journal op Botany. — Vol 49. [Oct. 1911.] n 2 



