Isonema.] lxxxiv. ArocYNACE^ (staff). 1H9 



yellowish-brown. — A. DC. Prod. viii. 415; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 

 450; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 184, fig. Ql, E. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Keudelot, 912 ! Sainu Country, iScott-EUiot, 

 4305 ! Sierra Leone : Bagru River, Mann, 824 ! Kareni to Port Lokko, ^c(jtt- 

 'Elliot, 5814 ! Liberia : Grand Bassa, Vogel, 65 ! Ansell ! and without i)recise 

 locality, Millen. 199 ! Gold Coast, Burton ! 



3. I. Buchholzii, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. vii. 340. An almost 

 glabrous climber, 10-20 ft. high ; branches terete, dark brown or black 

 in a dry state, minutely rusty puberuious when young, soon quite 

 glabrous. Leaves elliptic or oblong, abruptly and shortly acuminate, 

 rounded at the base, 2J-3 J in. long, 1 J-2 in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, 

 shiny above ; secondary nerves about 5-6 on each side, rather promi- 

 nent; petiole 2-3 lin. long. Panicles pyramidal or subcorymbose, 

 puberuious, mostly very loose, up to 6 in. long and broad : peduncle 

 1 in. long or hardly any; bracts very small, ovate; pedicels 2 lin. long 

 or shorter. Calyx 1 lin. long, minutely pubescent ; sepals ovate- 

 lanceolate. Corolla red, very minutely pubescent outside ; tube 4 lin. 

 long ; lobes oblong, '2^ lin. long ; lateral appendage rather large. 

 Anthers 1 lin. long. Ovary tomentose. — K. Sebum, in Engl, k Prantl, 

 Pfianzenfam. iv. ii. 184. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Cameroon River, Mann, 744 ! 221-1 ! Mungo, 

 BucJiholz ! Johann Albrechtshohe, Staudt, 481 ! 



Mann describes the corolla as red, Engier as white. 



32. PUNTUMIA, Stapf in Proc. Linn. Soc. 1900, 2, and in Hook. 

 Ic. PI. tt. 2694-2.695. 



Calyx small, subcoriaceous, with liattened glands inside the base ; 

 sepals 5, imbricate, almost free, broad, more or less obtuse. Corolla 

 salver-shaped ; tube widened at or just above the middle, very thick and 

 fleshy in the upper part ; mouth very narrow, naked ; lobes linear to 

 oblong, overlapping to the right. Stamens 6, inserted at the middle of 

 the corolla-tube ; filaments very short, stout ; anthers conniving in 

 a cone, included, lanceolate, acuminate, sagittate ; appendages about as 

 long as the polliniferous part, stout, shortly tailed ; foot of connective 

 broad, convex, with a tongue-shaped projection from the middle and a 

 minutely tomentose cushion below passing over the filament into the 

 hairy filamental ridge. Disc tubular, 5-lobed or 5-partite, fleshy. 

 Carpfels free, truncate, abruptly contracted into the style, exserted 

 from or shorter than the disc ; style filiform ; stigma ovoid-«lavate, 

 5-grooved, obscurely apiculate, adnate to the projection of the foot of 

 the connective, profusely exuding glutinous matter ; ovules numerous, 

 multiseriate. Mericarps 2, follicular, divaricate, oblong to spindle- 

 shaped, coriaceous or woody. Seeds spindle-shaped with a plumose 

 basal awn ; endosperm fleshy, thin ; cotyledons contortuplicate. — 

 Trees, sometimes very tall. Leaves opposite, coriaceous; axillary 



