Voacanga.] Lxxxiv. apocynace.e (staff). 15r> 



rather stout, 2 in. long; bracts ovoid, acute or acuminate, G lin. long; 

 pedicels rather slender, 3-7 lin. long. Calyx subcampanulate, 7-9 lin. 

 long, subherbaceous, with numerous small glands about 2 lin. above the 

 base ; lobes broad-oblong, obtuse, almost as long as the tube, at last 

 spreading or reflexed. Corolla sulphur-yellow ; tube stout, 7 lin. long, 

 constricted at the middle, twisted ; lobes broad, obovate-oblong, some- 

 what oblique, 9-12 lin. long. Stamens inserted above the middle; 

 anthers 3J-4 lin. long, tips scarcely exserted, tails rather long. Disc 

 fleshy, annular, much shorter than the carpels. Style 3 J lin. long. 

 Berries (one often abortive) of the shape and size of a small apple, some- 

 what oblique, 2 in. in diam., with curved longitudinal ridges ; pericarp 

 coriaceous when dry. Seeds about 3 lin. long ; testa finely punctate, 

 longitudinal grooves distinct and honeycombed or more or less obscure 

 externally. — V. africana, var. ? Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 88. 



Kower Guinea. Gaboon : banks of the Coino River, 75 miles enst of 

 Gil boon, Bates, 461! Angola: Golungo Alto; Quibixe Mountains, and near 

 Canguerasange and Quilombo, Wehvitsch, 5979 ! 5980 : forests of Alto Queta, Wei- 

 witsch, 5931 ! and fruits, 720! 721 ! 



4. V. Schweinfurthii, Stapf in Keio Bulletin, 1894, 21. A 

 glabrous shrub, 15 ft. high; branches slender, pallid, or the youngest 

 blackish when dry. Leaves oblanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acute or 

 subacuminate, long attenuate and acute or the lower rounded at the 

 base,. 5-8 in. long, lf-2^ in. broad, papery ; secondary nerves 9-14 on 

 each side, very oblique, gently curved ; petiole up to 5 lin. long (then 

 the leaf-base always acute) or none. Inflorescences geminate f loni the 

 young branch-forks, umbelliform, few-flowered, sometimes nodding ; 

 peduncle slender, 1 J-3 in. long ; bracts oblong, caducous ; pedicels 

 slender, 6-12 lin. Jong. Calyx subcampanulate, 7-8 lin. long, with a 

 transverse zone of scattered glands about 1 J lin. above the base ; lobes 

 broad-ovate, obtuse, spreading or reflexed, about as long as the tube. 

 Corolla yellow ; tube stout, constricted at the middle and mouth, scarcely 

 6 lin. long, finely tomentose on the broad filamental ridges, and delicately 

 papillose below ; lobes obliquely obovate, subacuminate, almost 1 in. long. 

 Stamens inserted above the middle ; anthers 3 lin. long, tips shortly 

 exserted, tails long. Disc annular, surrounding the ovary to almost half 

 their height. Style 3^ lin. long. Berries " ovoid, pulp yellow " (Schwein- 

 furth).— K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 317 (excl. Stuhlmann's 

 plant?). 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State: Niamniam ; Yuru River, Schiveivfurth, 

 3326! 



The plant figured as V. Schweinfurthii in De Wild. & Durand, 111. Fl. Congo, 

 t, 39, is a pubescent state of V. africana. Stuhlaiann's specimen from Qniliinane 

 (i. 710), referred to V. Schweinfurthii by Sclminann, I.e., belongs very i)r«l)al)ly U> 

 some other species, but which I cannot SHy. The V. iSchweinfurthii nuntioned by 

 De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, fasc. ii. 40, as collected by Demeu.se near 

 Bangala on the middle Congo, is equally doubtful. 



5. V. spectabilis, Stapf. A much branched shrub, 5-7 ft. high ; 

 branches rather stout, softly and densely pubescent when young, then 

 glabrescent, pale greyish. Leaves sessile or subsessile, broadly ovate or 



