226 THE .TOURNAIi OF BOTANY 



NEW GAMOPETAL^ FROM THE SOUTH CAMEROONS. 



By H. F. Wernham, D.Sc, F.L.S. 



(Department of Botany, British Museum.) 



The following types were collected by G. L. Bates — already 

 well-known as a West- African collector — mostly in the neighbour- 

 hood of Bitye, Ebolowa (Southern Cameroons), in the w^inter of 

 1914-15. They are now preserved in the National Herbarium. 



RUBIACE^. 



Otomeria Batesii sp. nov. 



Subherbacea, caule gracili volubili striato subglabro long 

 internodiis, vix ramoso. Folia membranacea, elliptico-lanceolata, 

 utrinque angustata, ca. 6-7 cm. x 2-3 cm., apice acutissima 

 acuminata, utrinque prassertim in venis obscure minute hirto- 

 puberula, petiolo tenui 7 mm.-2 cm. v. longiore : stiqJulcB e basi 

 brevissimo caulem amplectente aristatse ad 3-4 mm. longse. 

 Flores in capituhs parvis aggregati, subglabri : calycis loborum 

 unus oblanceolatus acutissime acuminatus, 9 mm. x 2'5 mm., 

 ceteri anguste lanceolati, vix 2 ram. longi : corollcs tubus 2-5 cm. v. 

 longior, tenuis, extus minutissime puberulus, insuper sub lobos ad 

 2 mm. lat. dilatatus, lobi obovati ± 6 mm. x 4*5 mm. brevissime 

 mucronati, stylo ca. 3 mm. e corolla exserto. 



S. Cameroons : Bates s. n. ! 



Allied to 0. speciosa Scott ElHot ; but Bates's plant is almost 

 glabrous, with smaller and more slender flow^ers. Another speci- 

 men of this new species has been collected recently by P. A. 

 Talbot in the Degema district of Southern Nigeria. 



Randia cacaocarpa sp. nov. 



Frutex 8-10-pedalis, ramulis tenuiusculis nisi novitatibus 

 appresse hirtis glabris cortice cinereo indutis. Folia oblanceolata, 

 ad 25 cm. x 8-5 cm. vel majora, basi in petioliim brevem validi- 

 usculum subUgnosum leniter angustata, apice acuminata, supra 

 glaberrima, subtus in venis minute appresse pubescentia aliter 

 glabra, venis secundariis utrinque ca. 12 ; stipule?, caulem amplec- 

 tentes, parvae ovatae breviter apiculata acuminatse. Flores parvi 

 roseo-purpurei in cymuHs modestis alaribus mox lignescentibus, 

 paucifloris laxiusculis, vix 2-3 cm. excedentibus dispositi ; calyx 

 infundibularis extus sparse minute hirtellus 5-5 mm. longus, 

 limbus integerrimus ; corollcs glaberrimae tubus latus 5 mm. e calyce 

 exsertus, lobi 5 patentes ovati-acuminati sub-acuti, 4-5 mm. longi, 

 basi fere 4 mm. lati. Fructus 5-6 cm. in diam. 



Bitye : forest, east of path between Lang and Ejom, Novem- 

 ber 28th, 1914. Bates 664 ! 



Flower carmine or " purple-lake "; fruit yellow, shaped like a 

 cacao-pod, but smaller (Bates). Related to B. acuminata and its 

 allies, but readily distinguished by the leaf-shape, calyx-limb, 

 fruit, etc. 



