15 
—~25 em, longa, 6-15 em. lata, tenuiter chartacea, glabra vel 
lari-ovatae vel subtransverse oblon ae, circiter 5 mm. longae, 
picem versus membranacese. Puthinott plerumque geminati, 
oppositifolii, robusti, complanato-angulares, 3-8 cm. plerumque 
cm. longi, 2-4 mm. crassi, glabri. Capitula 15-25-flora. 
Leceptacula crassa, connata. Calyces liberi; tubus cupularis, 
2-2-5 mm. longus, margine obscure undulatus,, coriaceus, glaber. 
Corollae in alabastro clavatae, ad 3-5 cm. longae; tubus circiter 
25 cm. longus, apicem versus leviter expansus; lobi 5, mox 
reflexi, oblongo-lanceolati, obtusi, carnosi, 1-:2-1-4 cm. longi. 
Stamina 5, semiexserta; antherae 5 mm. longae, 1:25 mm. latae. 
Stylus inclusus 15 cm. longus, profunde bilobus. Fructus 
magnus, integer vel inaequaliter bilobus vel subtrilobus, 
depresso-glubosus, 3-6 cm. diametro, calycibus persistentibus 
prominentibus ornatus. 
ISTRIB.—-Senegambia to Upper French Guinea :—Senegam- 
bia: Cayor district ; Caniag village, March, Déllinger 52. Sierra 
: Rotomba Island, March, Kirk; Ryaham, Feb., Zane- 
iver, Man 7; Victoria, Thomas 9 ; Gbanbama, Thomas 
8899; 8970; 9135; 9345; 9477; 9704; Pujehun, Thomas 8562 
25; Mano, Thomas 10324; 1 ‘Sierra Leone ’’ Barter; 
86 : ; 
Vogel 143, 145; Daniell; Don; Smeathmann § Afzelius. French 
Guinea: valley of the Kaba, May, Chevalier 13186: Sareya, 
Feb., Chevalier 463. 
ERNACULAR NAMES—N’ Jalajui (Lane-Poole); Bungbo or 
r. Lane-Poole informs us ‘that this species is known in 
Sierra Leone as the ‘ Brimstone Bush’; it is never used for 
_ The earliest specific name of this plant is very probably chry- x 
_sorhiza (Psychotria chrysorhiza, Schum. et Th ) k 
the type of this appears to be no longer in existence it seems 
t Thonn. l.c.) but as — 
