Pycnohotrya.'] lxxxiv. apocyxace^ (staff). 203 



2. P. multiflora, K. Schum. MSS. Branches terete, very finely 

 rusty-tomentose when young, soon glabrescent and black when dry. 

 Leaves opposite or ternate, oblong to oblanceolate or obovate, 2-4 in. 

 long, |-1 J in. broad, acute or subcuneate at the base, abruptly and ob- 

 tusely acuminate, glabrous and shining above, dotted with black glands 

 below ; secondary nerves scarcely 1 lin. distant, with fainter parallel 

 veins between; nervation slightly prominent and much more conspicuous 

 above ; petiole slender, 2-3 lin. long. Inflorescence corymbose, about 

 1 in, long, much overtopped by the uppermost pair of leaves, finely 

 rusty- or fusco-tomentose all over; peduncles up to 9 lin. long; bracts 

 very minute ; pedicels up to J-f lin. long. Caly^c not quite J lin. long. 

 Corolla glabrous, 3 lin. long in the mature bud, purple (?) ; tube ^ lin. 

 long ; anthers slightly over ^ lin. long. 



Upper Guinea. Carceroons : Bipinde, Zen ?-er, 1274! 2063! 



38. BAISSEA, A. DC. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 719. 



Calyx small, herbaceous to subcoriaceous, eglandular within or 

 usually with 5 intracalycular glands ; sepals 5, almost free, imbricate, 

 ovate-lanceolate to rotundate. Corolla funnel-shaped or campanulate ; 

 tube widest or slightly constricted at the mouth, usually with fleshy 

 projecting calli or scales just above the insertion of the stamens and 

 dense obversely triangular patches of white reflexed hairs between 

 them, otherwise without appendages ; lobes 5, mostly very narrow, 

 overlapping to the right. Stamens inserted above the base of the 

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

 not exceeding the corolla-tube, lanceolate, acuminate, sagittate ; 

 appendages about as long as the polliniferous part, distinctly tailed ; 

 foot of connective hollowed and glabrous above, with a cushion of 

 dense hairs below passing over the filament into the short hairy fila- 

 mental ridge. Disc cupular, subtruncate, sinuate or 5-lobed. Carpels 

 2, slightly inferior, free, subtruncate, usually hairy ; style short, 

 obconical (or cylindric at the base) ; stigma campanulate with 5 pits 

 (exuding glutinous matter) in the middle, and with a short or long and 

 subulate apiculus ; ovules numerous, pluriseriate. Mericarps follicular, 

 usually cylindric, very slender. Seeds linear-lanceolate, truncate at the 

 tip, acute at the base, with a deciduous apical coma ; endosperm fleshy, 

 rather copious ; cotyledons flat ; radicle short. — Tall climbing shrubs. 

 Leaves opposite ; secondary nerves distinct, numerous and fine ; trans- 

 verse veins more or less conspicuous; axillary stipules and glands 0. 

 Flowers in terminal and axillary, sometimes leafy panicles or corymbs, 

 composed of few-flowered cymes, rarely in short few-flowered cymes ; 

 corollas white or purple. 



Species 21, endemic. 



This description excludes the Indian and Malayan species referred by some 

 authors to Baissea. They constitute a distinct genus, Cleghornia, Wight (See Hua 

 in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 2 ser. i. 9, 12). 



Hua (in Compt. Rend. Acad. Paris, cxxxiv. 856-858) has pointed out the close 

 affinity of Zygodia axillaris, Benth., one of the species on which the genus Zygodia 



