Callichilia.] Lxxxiv. apocynace^ (staff). 133 



acute. Corolla white ; tube slender, constricted below the middle, 1 in. 

 long; lobes obliquely obovate, slightly longer than the tube. Stamens 

 inserted 6 lin, above the base ; anthers 2 lin. long. Disc annular, 

 lobed. Style 7 lin. long ; stigma short, subulate, bifid, with a wavy 

 lobed ring at the base. Berries obliquely ovoid, rostrate, 1-1] in. long, 

 tardily dehiscent (?). Seeds embedded in a pulp, ellipsoid, 2-3 lin. long, 

 honeycombed. — Taberncemontana subsessilis, Benth. in Hook. Niger 

 Fl. 448. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Ksthrem, Scoti-El/iot, 5590 I near Madina* 

 Scott-Elliott, 5565 ! Liberia, Vogel, 4 ! 5 ! Gold Coast : East Akiin, Johyison, 762 ! 

 766 ! Assin-Yan-Kumassi, Cummins, 48 ! 235 ! Cameroons : Ambas Bay, Mann, 2152 ! 



5. C. Barter!, Stapf. A glabrous, erect shrub, 6-8 ft. high ; 

 branches slender, terete, very pallid. Leaves elliptic or oblong to 

 lanceolate, acuminate or acute at both ends, rarely obtuse, 3-8 in. long, 

 1-3 in. broad, herbaceous to papery; secondary nerves G-8 on each 

 side; petiole 2-6 lin. long. Inflorescences few- to 10-flowered, umbelli- 

 form (at least when young); peduncle from a few lines to 1 in. long; 

 bracts ovate-oblong or lanceolate, acuminate, 1-3 lin. long ; pedicels 

 1-4 lin. long, slender. Calyx 3-6 lin. long ; sepals broad-oblong, 

 obtuse or acute. Corolla white, very fragrant ; tube cylindric, slendei-, 

 constricted below the middle, 1|— 1|^ in. long, rarely shorter; lobes 

 obliquely obovate, very broad, slightly shorter than the tube. Stamens 

 inserted 5-6 lin. above the base ; anthers 2 J lin. long. Disc small, cup- 

 shaped, lobed. Style 4 lin. long; stigma clavate, with a 5-grooved 

 thickening at the base. Berries divaricate, obliquely ellipsoid with a 

 recurved beak, 1-1 J in. long, tardily dehiscent (?). Seeds semi-ellipsoid, 

 3 lin. long; testa deeply honeycombed, brown. — Taberncemontana 

 Barterl, Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 585'J ; K. Schum. in Engl, k Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 148, and in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk- 

 Exped. 306. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Burton ! Lagos : interior, Rowland ! Eppah 

 (Epe), Millen, 170 ! Barter, 3284 ! common on open plains. Barter, 3357 ! Abeo- 

 kuta, Irving, 132! Ikirun and Essa Egure, Millson ! Ikoradu, SMechter, 12301. 

 Ibadan Forest Reserve, Punch, 48 ! Southern Nigeria: Brass, Barter, 86 ! Onitsa, 

 Barter, 1653! Obeyon, on the Etoi River, Stevenson, 246! Old Calabar, Mann, 

 2271 ! Thomson, 80 ! Cross River, Johnston ! Northern,Nigeria, Kentish- Rankin / 



I referred (in De Wild & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 89 ; cf. also De Wild. & 

 Burand, Reliq. Dewevr. in Ann. Mus. Congo, ser. 3, fasc. ii. 153) to " Tabernce- 

 montana Barteri " an imperfect specimen, collected on the Congo between Lukolela 

 and Ngomba by Dewevre (793), which was not accessible when I revised Tabgrtus- 

 montana, but 1 have little doubt that the determination was erroneous so far as the 

 species is concerned. 



23. CARVALHOA, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

 iv. ii. 189 ; Nachtr. 284. 



Calyx small, herbaceous, eglandular (?) within ; sepals 5, nearly 

 free, imbricate, ovate, acuminate, ciliolate. Corolla subcampanulate- 

 f unnel-shaped ; tube subcylindric at the base, widened from below the 



