Plate 2548. 



CACOUCIA SPLENDENS, Hand. 



CO-MBRETACEvE. 



C. splendens, Hemsl. (sp. nov.) ; ex affinitate C. wlutina, differt 

 imprimis racemis longissimis bracteis amplis luteo-albidis. 



^ Frutex scandens, ramulis robustis primum ferrugineo-pubescentibus. 

 Folia superiora alterna, brevissime petiolata, coriacea, glabra vel cito 

 j;labrescentia, oblonga vel ovato-oblonga, 2\-3\ poll, ionga, abrupte 

 acuminata, basi breviter cordata, venis primariis lateralibus utrinque 

 •~>-6. Flores speciosi, cum staminibus exsertis 1|-1| poll, longi, 

 raceniosi ; racemi laterales vel terminates, circiter pedales, recti, atque 

 flores pedicellique ferrugineo-pubescentes ; pedicelli rigidi, 4-6 lin. 

 longi ; bracteae foliaceae, petiolatae, ovatse, acuta?, 9-12 lin. long*. 

 Calycis tubus subcylindricus, curvus, a basi fere ad medium crassior 

 et sulcatus, supra sulcos leviter constrictus, intus infra medium 

 squamis transversalibus hirsutis vel fimbriatis praeditus, infra squamas 

 glaber, supra squamas parce puberulus ; lobi deltoidei, circiter 3 lin. 

 longi. Petala obovoidea, pubescentia, 3^-4 lin. Ionga. Stamina 

 exserta circiter 3 lin., filamentis infra medium leviter puberulis. 

 Ovarium 3-ovulatum stylo staminibus subaequante. FructMs ignotus. 

 C. bracteata, Laws, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 434, partim. 



West Tropical Africa : Cameroon river, (i. Mann, '1 206. 



This and the two plants represented in plates '2549 and 2550 were 

 included by Lawson in his C. bracteata, and it has been deemed 

 better to give each a new name rather than arbitrarily assign his 

 name to any one of them. — W. Botting Hemsley. 



Fig. 1, section of the lower part of a flower opened out showing the horizontal 

 <oales which shut off the lower part of the calyx-tube as a separate chamber ; 2, .. 

 petal ; 3, anthers. All enlarged. 



