Diplorhynchus.] lxxxiv. apocynace.e (staff). 107 



Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 142, fig. 54 M-N ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL 

 Welw. i. GOO. 



^Lcwer Guinea. Angola: Huilla ; \\\\\s near ^ owe, Welw Uf;c}i,o^^2\ AntuneSy 

 292! 



A fruit collected at Tundo Quiloiulio in Pungo Aiulougo, by Welwitscli (fruit 

 729), piobably belongs to J), psilopns. Wehvits-ch also states in a note that 

 this species occurs in Pungo Andongo as well as in Cazeiigo. Ficalho records it from 

 the River Nindn, Central Angola, where Serpa Pinto collected it. 



4. D. xnossambicensiSy Benth. in Hook. Ic. PL t. 1355. A 

 tree ; branches minutely greyish tomentose when young, at length 

 glabrescent, pale or gre;yish- brown ; lenticels few, obscure. Leaves 

 ovate, elliptic, or oblong-elliptic, rounded or shortly acute at the base,, 

 obtuse or obtusely acuminate, 2J-4 in. long, lJ-2-| in. broad, papery, 

 softly pubescent on both sides when young, ultimately glabrescent, 

 rarely almost glabrous from the beginning; nerves 8-12 on each side; 

 petioles 4-8 lin. long. Panicles mostly contracted, sometimes elongate 

 and loose, pubescent or tomentose, 1-4 in. long ; pedicels very short, up 

 to 2 J lin. long. Calyx pubescent, | lin. long; sepals short, broadly ovate. 

 Corolla glabrous ; tube slightly constricted below the middle, obovoid 

 above, up to 1 J lin. long ; lobes as long as or slightly longer than the 

 tube. Follicles obtuse or shortly beaked, 2 in. long. — K. Schum. in 

 Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 142; and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 

 351, C. 316 ; De Wild, in Rev. Cult. Colon, x. (1902), 139, 142. 



Iiower Cruinea. South Angola : by the Cliitanda Kiver, between Gaudko]>je 

 and Katzele, 4000 ft., JBaum, 178 ! 



South Central. Congo Free State : Katanga ; Lukof u, Verdick ! 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Ukome, on Lake Victoria, Sttihlmantiy 

 880 ! Pori, near Gonda, Bdhm, 160a ! Steppes by the Rufidji River, 800 ft.,. 

 Goetze, 87! Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique; Cape Caboceira, Carralho ! 

 Lower Shire River ; MoramLalla Mountain, KirJ< ! British Central Africa : Nyasa- 

 land; Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 12! Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte! 

 and without precise locality, Buchanan, 9 ! 391 ! south coast of Tanganyika, Scoft- 

 Elliot, 8263 ! Boruma, on the Zambesi, Menyharth, B ! 



Baum's specimens from the Chitanda River have slightly larger calyces with 

 oblong- ovate lobes. 



5. D. angustifolia, Stapf. A small tree ; branches very slender,, 

 pubescent when quite young ; lenticels very obscure. Leaves lanceolate 

 or lanceolate-oblo'ng, acute at the base, shortly acuminate (acumen nar- 

 row and obtuse), rarely broad-oblong and rounded at the base, 2A-3 in. 

 long, 1-1^ in. broad, thinly coriaceous, glabrous or minutely papillose on 

 the midrib near the base, reddish-brown, paler beneath when dry; 

 nerves 14-16 on each side; petioles 3-5 lin. long. Panicle loose, 

 mostly small and few-flowered, pubescent, i -2 in. long ; pedicels up 

 to 1 lin. long. Calyx puberulous near the base, J lin. long ; lobes broad- 

 ovate. Corolla glabrous without, with a line of hairs on the lobes 



