Lajidolphia.] lxxxiv. apocynace.e (staff). -il 



rhachis aril acting as tendrils ; bracts ovate, more or less acute or 

 obtuse, often recurved at the tips, densely f ulvo-tomentose, caducous ; 

 pedicels stout, very short. Calyx about 2^ lin. long, densely f ulvo- 

 tomentose without ; sepals broad-ovate, subacute or obtuse, recurved 

 ^t the tips, long ciliate. Corolla glabrous, except for very long cilia on 

 the lobes ; tube widest abjut or slightly above the middle, subcylindric 

 at both ends, about 0^ lin. long, mouth narrjA^; lobes ovate-oblong, 

 subacute, lin. long, 2 lin. broad. Scamens inserted at the middle of 

 the corolla-tube; anthers 1 lin. long. Ovary depressed, glabrous, 

 sulcate ; style filiform, 'd lin. long ; stigma cylindric from a thickened 

 base, 1 lin. long. 



Upper Guinea. Camerooiis : Bipinde, 330 ft., Zenker, 1290 ! 



Var. qlahrafa, Hallier f., l.f. 87. Leaves glabrous on both sides, otherwise vei-y 

 shiiiliir to tljoseof tlie type. 



Upper Guinea (?). Traun ! 



The variety i< represented oily by ban-en spejimens no v in t'le Vienna Hof- 

 museuni, received by Dr. Traun of H mibarg from Weit Africa. 



'.). Li. eminiana^ Hallier f. Kautschukllanen in Jakrh, Hamburg. 

 \Visse7isch. Anstalt. xiv. (1890), 8. Belh. S6. A scandent shrub; tan- 

 tlrils unknown. Young branches densely rusty- or fulvous-tomentose, at 

 length glabrescent, brown, with a few whitish lenticels. Leaves oblong, 

 obtuse, rounded at the base, 3J-4 in. long, IJ in. broad, coriaceous, 

 fulvo-pube scent on both side-} when young, soon glabrescent except 

 the midrib, glossy and grean above, drab baneith; midrib shallowly 

 channelled above, much raised beneath; lateral nerves slender, 11-13 

 on each side, slightly raised on both sides; reticulation distinct and 

 slightly raised above; petiole '^J-4: lin. long, tomentose. Panicles 

 terminal, shortly pedancled, tomentose, dense, many-flowered, much 

 c mtracted or (according to Hallier) elongate, with remote and partly 

 cirriform branches ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, up to 3 lin. long, villous, 

 etrly caducous; bracteoles broad-ovate or obovate, very similar to 

 the calyx-segments, obtuse with recurved tips, more or less hairy ; 

 pedicels very short, stout. Calyx 2J-3 lin. long; sepals ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse or subacute, tips reflexed, minutely and densely tomentose 

 -within, more loosely hairy without. Corolla densely rusty- or fulvous- 

 tomentose without ; tube 7-9 lin. long, widest about the middle ; lobes 

 -oblong-linear, obtuse, about o-G lin. long, 2-3 lin. broad, almost 

 glabrous on the inner side. Stamens inserted at the middle of the 

 c )rolla-tube ; anthers slightly over 1 lin. long. Ovary densely adpres- 

 sedly hirsute; style filiform, about 4 lin. long, hairy except on the 

 upper part ; stigma slender, 1 lin. long, 2-lobed. 



Mozamb. Blst. German East Africa: Kara^^.ve; Itolio, western shore of 

 Lake Victoria, 2100 ft., Sfuhlmanii, 930 ! Us-.nao; Mwanza, southern shore of Lake 

 Victoria, Sfuhlmann, 4662 ! 



10. L. bracteata, Dewevre, Caoutch. Afr. Monogr. Landolph. 31. 

 A scandent shrub up to 20 ft. high, with branched tendrils from the 



