](;4 hxxxiv. Aroc'YNACE.e (staff). yjlolarrhena. 



ovate or ovate-lanceolate, subacute, the inner two with 2-1 gland near 

 the base. Corolla puberulous without ; tube 3 J-41 lin. long ; lobes 

 slightly shorter than the tube. Anthers apiculate, | lin. long, cells very 

 shortly decurrent. Follicles up to IJ ft. long. Seeds lanceolate, 5A lin. 

 long, coma 2 in. long.— Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 450 ; K. Schum. in 

 Engl, k, Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. lo8. 



Upper Guinea, (jambia : banks of the Gambia, Ozanne, 9 ! and without 

 precise locaHty, -firow/t ii5/t?r / Whitfield! French Guinea : ^lo'KwwQZ, Hendelof , 

 795! (1795 according to l)c Candollc). 



4. H. africana, A. DC. Prod. viii. 414. A shrub or small tree; 

 young branches glabrous, rarely very sparingly pubescent, blackish 

 when dry, older ones paler, with numerous conspicuous lenticels, terete. 

 Leaves ovate to oblong, acuminate to subobtuse, acute or subacute at 

 the base, 2-;H in. long, IJ-lJ in. broad, always quite glabrous; 

 secondary nerves 8-10 on each side; petiole "l-'lh lin. long. Corymbs 

 terminal on short lateral few-leaved or leafless shoots, sometimes over- 

 topped by a young long shoot, subsessile, dense, 1 i-2 in. in diam., 

 minutely greyish pubescent to minutely tomentose ; peduncle 1-2 in. 

 long ; pedicels slender, 1-4 lin. long. Calyx greyish pubescent to 

 tomentose, 1-1 2 lin. long, eglandular; sepals ovate-lanceolate, subacute. 

 Corolla puberulous without ; tube 3-4 lin. long ; lobes slightly shorter 

 than the tube. Anthers bluntly apiculate ; decurrent cell-tips over 



\ lin. long; filaments \ lin. long. Follicles 12 in. long. Seeds oblong, 

 somewhat beaked, 4J lin. long; coma lJ-2 in. long. — Benth. in Hook. 



Niger Fl. 450 ; K. Schum. in Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. loH ; 



Morris in Kew Bulletin, 1896, 47-49 partly. Rondeletia florihunda, 



G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 516. 



Upper Guinea. French Guinea : Bayabaya, by the River Scarcies, Scott-ElUot, 



4290 ! near Laya, Scott-Elliot, 4469 ! Sierra Leone : Bagru River, Mann, 884 ! 



Falaba, S cott- Elliot , 5180 ! and without precise locality, Afzelius! Don ! Barter ! 

 H . fi,orihunda — a name adopted by Durand & Schinz (Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 190) 



and K. Schum. (in Durand & De Wild, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 122) for 



K. africana — from the lower Congo is very likely H. congolensis. It is stated to 



have been collected by Laurent on the caravan routes on the lower Congo. 



5. H. Wulfsbergii, Stapf. A middle-sized tree with slender, 

 somewhat nodding branches; young branches drying black, glabrous, 

 ultimately dotted with numerous pale lenticels. Leaves elliptic or 

 elliptic-oblong, rarely ovate, more or less broadly and shortly acuminate, 

 rarely subobtuse, 3-5 in. long, 1 J-2j in. broad, membranous, glabrous 

 or sometimes with short white hairs in some of the nerve-axils below ; 

 secondary nerves 8-11 on each side; petiole slender, 1J-2J lin. long. 

 Corymbs subsessile, dense, semiglobose, 1-2-2 J in. in diam., terminal on 

 very short, often (at the time of flowering) leafless branchlets or over- 

 topped by a young shoot from the axil of the uppermost leaf, and then 

 pseudo-lateral, more or less finely puberulous ; peduncle up to 2 lin. 

 long ; pedicels slender, up to 4 lin. long. Calyx sparingly or more or 

 less densely minutely tomentose, eglandular within ; sepals ovate, sub- 

 acute, ^-1 lin. long. Corolla glabrous or more or less puberulous with- 



