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secondary nerves 4-G on each side, channelled above, the lowest 2-3 on 

 each side conspicuous, very oblique and strongly curved, the upper faint, 

 almost straight ; tertiary nerves nnd transverse veins slightly oblique; 

 petiole 2-8 lin. long. Cymes 3-1 -flowered, terminal, glabrous; peduncle 

 very slender J-| in. long ; bracts minute, deciduous ; pedicels filiform, 

 ^-l in. long. Calyx semiglobose, blackish, J lin. long, glabrous ; 

 segments rotundate, margins subhyaline ; intra-calycular glands r>, dis- 

 tinct. Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube campanulate, 3^, lin. long, glabrous 

 without and above the ovate calli within; l4)bes linear from a lanceolate 

 base, obtuse, 5 lin. long, 1 lin. broad. Anthers over IJ lin. long, 

 minutely villous on the back. Disc distinct, sinuous. Ovary pubescent 

 at the top ; style obconic-cylindric, J lin. long, minutely puberulous ; 

 stigma campanulate -conic with a short bifid apex. 

 Upper G-uinea. Cameroons : Bipinde, Zenker, 2044 ! 



4. B. "Wulfhorstii, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 81 G. A 

 climbing shrub ; young branches finely rufo-pubescent, at length 

 glabrescent, reddish-brown. Leaves lanceolate to ovate- or ellipiic- 

 oblong, obtuse or subacute, rounded at the base, \-lh in. long, 3-.')l 

 lin. broad, at length coriaceous, finely pubescent when young, soon 

 glabrescent; secondary nerves very faint, 10-11 on each side; petiole 

 up to I lin. long, pubescent. Flowers in (often very numerous) 2-1- 

 fiowered axillary cymes or the uppermost cymes gathered into a small 

 panicle ; peduncle filiform, very short to J in. long, densely rufo-pubes- 

 cent like the whole inflorescence ; bracts subulate, up to 1 lin. long ; 

 pedicels up to 2^ lin. long. Calyx open, rufo-pubescent, up to 1^ lin. 

 long, eglandular ; sepals oblong-linear, obtuse. Corolla sweet-scented, 

 white; tube wide funnel-shaped up to 2 lin. long, pubescent without, 

 glabrous within and streaked with red above the rather obscure calli ; 

 lobes linear, up to 10 lin. long. Anthers 2 lin. long, minutely pubes- 

 cent on the back. Disc very shallow, sinuate. Ovary sparingly hairy 

 on the top; style cylindric below, thickened above, delicately papillose; 

 stigma campanulate-conic with a short bifid apiculus. Follicles glabrous, 

 7 in. long. — B. spectahilis, Hua in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 2 ser. i. 10. 



Ziower Guinea. Angola : Huilla, Autunes, 391 ; by tlie Cunene River 

 below its junction with the River Cliitanda, 3600 ft., Baum, 118 ! Amboland : 

 Ompandii, Wulfhorst, 2 I 



Soutb Central. Angola ? : Upper Zambesi, Jalla I 



5. B. multiflora, A. DC. Prod. viii. 424. A climber, HO to 

 80 ft. high ; young branches slender, more or less rusty- or fulvo- 

 tomentose, ultimately glabrescent. Leaves elliptic to oblong, shortly 

 or obscurely acuminate, rounded or more or less acute at the base, H- 

 3J in. long, 1-2 in. broad, chartaceous, finely rusty tomentose all over 

 in bud, very soon glabrescent above and between the nerves below, at 

 length sometimes quite gla.brous except for small tufts of hairs in the 

 nerve-axils ; secondary nerves 5-7 on each side, channelled above ; 

 transverse veins fine, but distinct; petiole l-2i lin. long. Panicles. 



