103 
Sg oat in Arrica. Lower Guinea: Gaboon; Ogowe, Thollon, 
4; 361; 769 
The fact ne this species proves to be a Crotonogyne renders it 
necessary to suggest a new specific name, owing to the publication 
Dr. Pax of a C. angustifolia in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. p. 83 
(1894), which: “ditfen from the species now described in pal 
much longer leaves and in having a lepidote but not setose ovar 
In works in which it is necessary to treat the species now described as 
C. angustifolia, Prain, it may be convenient to substitute the name 
*, Soyaucit, ee for the species ee in the Flora of Tropical 
Africa will stand as C. angustifolia, 
_ 1824, Caperonia Buchanani, Baker ae oy 
species C. palustri, St. Hil., quam maxime affinis sed foliis margine 
crenatis apte ce da. 
Herba annua ; caules erecti, simplices, herbacei, superne hispidi, 
30 cm. alti. Folia breve petio olata, superiora oblonga vel oblanceo- 
lato-oblonga, acuta ; inferiora obovata, obtusa, margine genes basi 
cuneata, superiora 3°75-5 cm. longa, inferiora 2°5-3°75 ¢ m. longa, 
omnia 2-2°5 cm. lata, supra viridia, subtus pallidiora, signe secus 
nervos parce hispidula ; 3 nervi laterales utrinsecus 5-7; petiolus 
4-6 mm. longus, hispidus; stipulae lanceolatae, 5 mm. longae, 
caducae. Racemi axillares androgyni, 2-2°5 cm. longi, rhachis 
pedicellisque hispida vel pubescens ; bracteae lanceolatae, parvulae, 
GS Sepala 5, elliptico-oblonga, apiculata, glabra. Petala 5, valde 
lata, srg sepalis majoribus breviora. Ovarium dense muriculis 
acutis complanatis obsita, Capsula muriculata, 6 mm. lata; sepala 
eee 4mm. longa. Semina pallide cinerea, globosa. 
picAL Arrica. Mozamb. Dist.; Nyasaland; without 
precise i ional Buchanan ! 
Nearest to C. palustris, sm Hil., a South American species which 
is also widespread in Afric 
1325, Mareya sci Prain Ueber aoe? ge tonceel: 
ecies M. micranthae, Muell.-Arg., quam axim . nis ; differt 
foliis enasartious distincte abruptius acute acum 
Fruter vel arbor parva; ramuli glabri. Folia patsbia mem- 
tpg, obovato-lanceolata, abruptius acute acuminata, acumine 
1-15 cm. longo, margine integerrima, a triente summo versus basin 
cuneatum attenuata, 12-17 cm. longa, 4-5 cm. lata, saturate viridia, 
utringue glaberrima; petiolus glaber, 1°25 cm. longus; stipulae 
deciduae. Spicae sat numerosae, plus minusve flexuosue 15-18 cm. 
longae ; rhachis angulata, glabra ; bracteae ovatae, minutae. Flores 
masculi haud visi; feminei secus rhachin dispositi, satan: ; styli 
a basi liberi. Capsula subglobosa, 3-sulcata, 3-cocca ; cocci sub- 
= ae pubescentes, brunnei, 4 mm. lati. 
TropicaAL AFrica, Lower Guinea: French Congo; Libreville, 
Klaine, 2483. 
A very distinct species ; the specimens seen have female flowers 
only, arranged at intervals ‘throughout the whole length of the spike ; 
