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longus, lobis ovato-rotundatis marginibus glabris undulatis 
dorso appresse villosis. Ovariwm ovoideum, villosum, triloculare, 
loculis biovulatis. Fructus stramineus, oblique oblongus, 
mucronatus, 1-5 cm. longus, parce appresse lanatus, basi calyce 
persistente cupulare 4 mm. longo circumdatus. 
NortHerN Niceris. Tilde Filani, 3300 ft., 24 May, shrub 
about 12 ft. high on banks of streams, flowers brownish, pendant 
on the underside of the branchlets, H. V. Lely, No. 229 
Katagum district, in ravines, fruiting specimen, J. M. Dalziel, 
No. 413. 
A very distinct species rather closely related to one from 
Nyasaland as yet undescribed. Male flowers are not yet known. 
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Fig. 8. Maba secundiflora, Hutchinson. 1, female flowering shoot, 
X %; 2, fem. flower; 3, corolla opened out; 4, pistil; 5, longitudinal 
section of same; 6, fruit—enlarged. (See p 384.) 
CAMPANULACEAE. 
Wahlenbergia riparia, 4.DC.; F.T.A. iii. 480. 
Takwara, 3200 ft., 4 May, 1-2 ft., flowers flax-blue, No. 108. 
Taura, 1 ft., 6 May, No. 120 
OLEACEAE. 
Jasminum obtusifolium, Baker; F.T.A. 
Lemme, on stream banks, : Mays aap 10 ft., flowers 
white, sweet-scented, No. 
Distrib —An endemic North Nigeria species. 
Jasminum paucifiorum, Sage B.T.A. iv. i; 6. 
Naraguta, 10 June, No. 2 
Distrib—Sierra Leone to Nigeria and in Uganda. 
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