158 LXXXiT. APOCYXACE.E (stapf). [Vocccanga. 



papery, glabrous or softly pubescent beneath, especially on the midrib ; 

 secondary nerves 11-lG on each side, subhorizontal or oblique, gently 

 curved ; petiole up to G lin. long or hardly any. Inflorescences usually 

 paired from the young branch-forks, dichotomously corymbose, many- 

 flowered, glabrous or more or less pubescent in the lower part ; peduncle 

 2-5 in. long ; bracts oblong, up to 4 lin. long, caducous ; pedicels slender, 

 up to 10 lin. long. Ca,lyx subcampanulate, 3^-4^ lin. long, with a trans- 

 verse zone of very numerous glands above the base ; lobes rotundate- 

 ovate, as long as or almost as long as the tube. Corolla white, sweet- 

 scented ; tube '3-4^ lin. long, stout, constricted at the middle and mouth, 

 twisted, finely tomentose on the filamental ridges, otherwise glabrous 

 within ; lobes subobliquely obovate-oblong, from 6 lin. to almost 1 in. 

 long. Stamens inserted above the middle ; anthers 2 lin. long, tip^ 

 shortly exserted, tails long. Disc annular, surrounding the ovary to 

 half its height. Style 2 lin. long. Fruit unknown. — V. glabra, K. 

 Schum. in Engl. & Frantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 149. V. Schiveinfurthii,- 

 Durand & De Wild, in Ball. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 122 ; De Wild. & 

 Durand, 111. Fl. Congo, 77 (excl. descript.), t. 39, and Reliq. Dewevr. 

 151 ; var. parvijlora, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 226. 



Upper Guinea. Seiiegambia : Mboro, Perroftet, 463 ! Senegal, Heudelot 

 or Leprieur, 89 ! Gambia : Bathurst, Skues ! Sierra Leone : Bafodeya, Scott- 

 Elliot, 548-4 ! Xitiia Talla Hills, Scott-Elliot, 4903 ! and without precise locality, 

 Afzeliiis ! Gold Coast: Krepi, cToAw-sow, 814 1 Togo; Misahohe, Baumann, 464! 

 Lagos : Abeokuta, Barter, 3376 ! Jopo, Millen, 143 ! near Lagos, Moloney ! 

 Ibadan Forest Reserve, Punch, 146 ! and without i)recise locality, Millen, 178 

 partly ! Niger Protectorate : Nupe, Barter, 1327 ! Old Calabar ; Adiabo, Holland, 

 94 ! Cameroons : Mungo, Buchholz ! Fernando Po, Mann, 243 ! 



Itovrer Guinea. Lower Congo: near Leopoldville , Detvevre, 483! Laurent. 



A specimen collected near Yaunde in the Cameroons, by Zenker & Staudt (121 !), 

 and distributed as V. Schtoeinfurthii, probably also belongs to V. africana, although 

 the corolla-tube is almost 6 lin. long. All the Senegambia and Sierra Leone speci- 

 mens have more or less hairy leaves and peduncles; the same is the case with 

 Bai'ter's specunens from Xupe, and Mann's from Fernando Po. The amount of 

 hairiness varies considerably, and in Skues' specimen from the Gambia, the youngest 

 and smallest leaves are quite glabrous, whilst the larger lower ones have })ubesceiit 

 midribs. In a similar way, the Leopoldville specimen, collected by Dewevre, has 

 glabrous leaves, whilst that gathered by Laurent has pubescent branchlets and 

 leaves. 1 originally took V. africana in a very wide sense (Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 

 87) ; but renewed examination, additional material and collector's notes convince 

 ane that I had gone too far. 



9. V. chalotiana, Pierre MS. Quite glabrous. Branches rather 

 slender, pallid. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, more or less abruptly- 

 acuminate, acute at the base, 3J-4 in. long, IJ-lj in. broad, chartaceous, 

 dull green above, brown beneath when dry ; secondary nerves up to 20 

 on each side, almost straight, rather spreading ; petiole- very slender, 

 up to 1 in. long. Inflorescences geminate from the young branch-forks, 

 dichotomously or trichotomously corymbiform, loose, many-flowered ; 

 peduncles rather slender, up to 2 in. long; bracts caducous; pedicels 

 very slender, up to 8 lin. long. Calyx campanulate, about 3 lin. long. 



