106 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACE.E (stapf). [Diplorhynchus. 



0-12 on each side; petioles about 4 lin. long. Panicle slender, loose,, 

 perfectly glabrous, 4— 4 J in. long; pedicels scarcely 1 lin. long. Calyx 

 glabrous, J lin. long ; sepals broadly ovate. Corolla whitish glabrous 

 without; tube cylindric, IJ lin. long; lobes slightly longer. Follicles 

 Ij in. long. — D. Foggei, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

 iv. ii. 112, fig. 54, d; De Wild, in Rev. Cult. Colon, x. (1902) 142. 

 D. angolensis, Britten in Journ. Bot. 1895, 7G partly; Hiern in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welw. i. 6G7 partly, De Wild. I.e. 141 partly, not of Buttner. 



XiO-wer Guinea. Angola: Cazengo; in dense tliickets on the banks of the- 

 Kiver liuiuba, Wehritsch, 5968! Mi^lange, Marques, 16! 



South Central. Congo Free State : Lomami River, Pogge, 1002 ! 



2. D. angolensis, Biittner in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenh. xxxi. 

 85. A rambling shrub ; branches pendulous, glabrous, scantily dotted 

 with minute whitish lenticels. Leaves ob'long to elliptic, obtuse or 

 obtusely subacuminate, acute at the base, 2-d in. long, 1-1 f in. broad,, 

 thinly coriaceous, reddish-brown when dry ; nerves 7-9 on each side ; 

 petioles 8-6 lin. long, rarely less. Panicle very many-flowered, per- 

 fectly glabrous, 2-3 in. long ; flowers crowded on the branchlets ; 

 pedicels scarcely 1 lin. long. Calyx glabrous, J lin. long; sepals broadly 

 ovate. Corolla glabrous without, slightly hairy on the lobes within ; 

 tube cylindric below, obovoid above the middle, 1 lin. long ; lobes almost 

 twice as long. — K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 142. 

 Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 189 ; not of Hiern in Cat. Afr. 

 PI. Welw. i. 067; De Wild, in Rev. Cult. Colon, x. (1902) 140-142 

 partly. 



Ziower Guinea. Angola: Malange, J/ecZ/otf, 193 ! liew^wcXn, Siedhr ! by 

 the Kiver Kuaiigo, Biitfner, 404. 



De Wildeman, I.e., indicates D. angolenfiis as collected by Butaye (2241) near 

 Kisantu, Lower Congo ; but the description given by him of this plant does not 

 quite agree. It is stated to yield a kind of varnish. 



3. De psilopus, WeUo. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 23, t. 5. 

 A small tree or climbing or rambling shrub ; branches sarmentose^ 

 more or less puberulous when young, soon glabrescent, scantily dotted 

 with obscure lenticels. Leaves elliptic-cuneate, obtuse or obtusely 

 subacuminate, cuneate at the base, 2-3 in. long, 1-lf in. broad, cori- 

 aceous, glabrous or minutely papillose on the midrib near the base on 

 both sides, subglaucous above, pale brown beneath ; nerves 8-9 on each 

 side; petioles 10-12 lin. long. Panicle contracted, short, pubescent, 

 1-2 in. long; pedicels up to 1 lin. long. Calyx pubescent; sepals ovate. 

 Corolla white, fragrant, glabrous without, slightly hairy on the lobes 

 within ; tube slightly constricted below the middle, obovoid above, a little 

 over 1 lin. long ; lobes slightly longer. Follicles half -ovoid, scarcely 1 

 in. long, spread out when quite ripe into a nearly flat disc ; seeds broadly 

 winged.— Ficalho, PI. Uteis Afr. Port. 221 : K. Schum. in Engl, k 



