208 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACE^ (stapf). [Baissea. 



slender, pyramidal, 2-15 in. long, finely rusty- or fulvo-tomentose ; 

 lowest bracis sometimes foliaceous and coloured, upper small, lanceolate 

 to subulate, 1-2 lin. long; pedicels very short or up to 4 lin. long. 

 Calyx 1-1 J lin. long, puberulous to minutely tomentose ; sepals lanceo- 

 late, acute or obtuse, eglandular. Corolla white, funnel-shaped; tube sub- 

 campanuiate, 2-3 lin. long, puberulous without, scantily pubescent 

 within in the upper part ; supra-staminal calli ovate, distinct ; lobes 

 linear-lanceolate to linear, long tapering, 5-7 lin. long. Stamina! cone 

 not quite 1 lin. long, reaching to or beyond the middle of the corolla- 

 tube ; anthers more or less hairy on the back. Style puberulous, obconic 

 from a cylindric base ; stigma with a short bifid apiculus ; ovary 

 pubescent. Follicles finely rusty tomentose, up 'to 16 in. long, obtuse. 

 Seeds 8 lin. ionj; ; coma reddish, 1-1 J in. long. — Hook. Niger Fl. 452 ; 

 K. Schum. in Engl. &, Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 172 ; Hua in Bull. 

 Soc. Linn. Paris, 2 ser. i. 7, 9 ; Chevalier, Geogr. Bot. Senegal, 223. 

 Hua in Compt. Bend. Acad. Paris, cxxxiv. 85G, 857. 



xypper (Guinea. Senegambia : in tlie forests of Ferlo, Heudelot, 186 ! Cape 

 Nase, Doilinqer, Ao ! Gunibia : Albredji, Perrotet, 480! on tlie south bank of the 

 River Gambia, Brown-Lester^ 14 ! and without precise locality, Whitfield ! Rio 

 l!ixinez, Whitfield ! ¥uln JsLhon, Setidelot, 6011 5^7 I 



Var. /3 caudiloha, Stapf. Leaves slightly larger, thinner and more acuminate 

 than in the type, q\iite glabrous except in the nerve-axils. Anthers and style very 

 gparingly hairy, — B. caudiloha, Stapf in Jouru. Linn. Soc. xxx. 90; Hua in Bull. 

 Soc. Linii. Paris, 2 ser. i. 10. 



Upper 6-uinea. Sierra Leone : near Ninia, Talla Hills, Scott-'Elliot, 4807 ! 



Var. caudiloha is perhaps only a particularly glabrous state of B. multifiora. 

 The other extreme is represented by Hua's B. Seudelotii (Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 

 2 ser. i. 9), although it is le^s marked off from the type. The leaves of the type 

 specimen of B. multifiora are not glabrous, as described by A, De CandoUe. 



6. B. laxiflora, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 124. A graceful 

 climber up to 39 ft. high ; branches very slender, minutely puberulous 

 when young. Leaves oblanceolate or oblong, acuminate, acute or 

 cuneate at the base, up to 3 in. long, 1 in. broad, papery, quite glabrous 

 except for small tufts of hairs in the nerve-axils ; secondary nerves about 

 5 on each side, slender ; transverse veins faint, subhorizontal ; petiole 

 up to 2 lin. long. Cymes 3— 1-flowered, axillary on very short peduncles 

 or very loosely arranged in axillary and terminal panicles, branched 

 from the base, up to 4 in. long, very minutely puberulous; rhachis and 

 branches subcapillary ; pedicels very slender, up to 2 J lin. long ; bracts 

 minute, ovate. Calyx very minutely pubescent, | lin. long, eglandular; 

 sepals ovate, subacute. Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube subcampanulate,, 

 very minutely puberulous without, villous in the throat, 1 J-2J lin. 

 long, supra-staminal calli much projecting, almost cornute ; lobes 

 lanceolate from a subauriculate base 3-4 lin. long. Anthers not quite 

 1 lin. long, pubescent on the back. Carpels hairy at the top ; style 

 rather slender, obconic-cylindric, minutely puberulous ; stigma sub- 

 campanulate with a short bifid apiculus. Follicles very slender, up to 

 more than 2 ft. long ; seeds linear, 1 in. long ; coma 1 in. long — Stapf 



