TaBuLa 3030. 
RHAPHIDANTHE OBLIQUIFOLIA, Hiern, 
R. SOYAUXII, Stapf. 
EBENACEAE. 
R. obliquifolia, Hiern ex Giircke in Engl. u. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 
vol. iv. pars 1, p. 165 ; species vix perfecte nota. 
Arbuscula dioica, 4:5 m. alta, ramis gracilibus fuscis. vel atrofuscis 
brevissime hirsutiusculis. Folia bifariam mosaice disposita, valde 
obliqua, oblongo-ovata, basi otate, apice obtusa vel rotundata, mu- 
cronulata, 2-3 cm. longa, 1-1-4 cm. lata, dimidio porro spectante multo 
majore supra basin latissimo, “er retro Bacher medio latissimo, 
tenuiter coriacea, siccando supra nigro-fusca, glabra, subtus 
pruinosa et a sea albo-panctata, i in 5 Oot pilosula, costa supra 
impressa, nervis eralibus inconspicuis; petiolus 1 mm. longus. 
Flores masculi in selene axillis solitarii vel 2-3-ni, subsessiles. 
Calyx subcampanulatus, ultra medium 3- vel saepius 4-partitus, lobis 
triangularibus .acutis, 1-15 mm. longus, parce minute pilosulus. 
Corolla hypocrateriformis, in alabastri statu subulato-cylindrica, 
ad 6 mm. longa; tubus medio perpaulo dilatatus, 4-4-5 mm. por 
extra minutissime — ae scens ; lobi ovati, sitet vix 2mm 
longi. Stamina 2-3, orti; filamenta basi connata, fulvo- 
pilosa, 0-5-0-75 mm. meals ; antherae lineares, apiculatae, lateraliter 
dehiscentes, 2 mm. longae, connectivo in dorso _piloso. mu 
rudimentum nullum. Flores feminei atque fructus ignoti. 
West Tropican AFRica: Soh Guinea; Rio Muni Territory, 
Mount John, Kongui River, Mann, 1 
The genus to which our illustration relates was described by = 
W. P. Hiern in 1873 in his monograph of the family Ebenaceae, p 
lished in the emer ton of the Cambridge Philosophical shove 
(vol. xvii, pars 1, p. 65). No name is there bestowed on the genus, 
which, when susovuineie taken up by Dr. Giircke in the Pflanzen- 
familien, was termed Rhaphidanthe, the manuscript name which 
Hiern had inscribed on the sheets in the Kew herbarium containing 
specimens collected by Mr. G. Mann in the Rio Muni Territory. These 
