212 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACE.E (stapf). [Baissea. 



glaucous, glabrous or very minutely pubescent on the midrib ; secondary 

 nerves 5—7 on each side, fine ; transverse veins inconspicuous (though 

 distinct under a lens); petiole slender, up to 2 lin. long. Cymes few- 

 flowered, contracted, axillary and terminal ; peduncles very slender, up 

 to 4 lin. long; bracts minute; pedicels up to 1 lin. long. Calyx 

 minutely and scantily pubescent, 1 hn. long ; intra-calycular glands 5, 

 minute ; sepals broad-ovate, obtuse. Corolla dirty white with purple 

 streaks in the throat, funnel-shaped, glabrous without ; tube 2 lin. long, 

 glabrous in the throat ; supra-staminal calli minute, transversely linear ; 

 lobes linear from an ovate base, gradually tapering, 3 lin. long. 

 Staminal cone reaching almost to the corolla-mouth ; anthers IJ lin. 

 long, minutely silky on the back. Disc shallow, sinuate. Carpels 

 minutely puberulous on the top ; style minutely papillose, obconical ; 

 stigma with a short conical bifid apiculus. — K. Schum in Engl. & 

 Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Ergauz. 59, Fermerion Welwitschii, Baill. in 

 Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 758 ; K. Schum. I.e. iv. ii. 174. 



Iiower Ouinea-. Angola : Golungo Alto ; outskirts of forests on the 

 mountains of Alto Queta, rather rare, Welwitsch, 5932 ! 



14, B, odorata, K. Schum. MSS. A climbing shrub, quite 

 glabrous except the inflorescences ; young branches compressed, later 

 on terete, greyish -brown. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, gradually acu- 

 minate (acumen obtuse, up to J in, long), acute to subcuneate at tlie 

 base, 2-21 in. long, f-1 in. broad, almost papery ; secondary nerves 

 G-8 on each side, oblique, fine ; transverse veins at very acute angles 

 with the secondary nerves ; petiole 1 J-2 lin. long, slender. Panicles 

 very lax, short, terminal and lateraf, the terminal subcorymbiform 

 about 1-lJ in. long, the lower often reduced to 3-1-flowered cymes, 

 adpressedly and minutely pubescent in all parts ; bra.nches filiform ; 

 bracts minute, lanceolate; pedicels very slender, up to 5 lin. long. 

 Calyx subsemiglobose, f-f lin. long, adpressedly pubescent, blackish ; 

 sepals rotundate-ovate ; intra-calycular glands 5, distinct, though 

 small. Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube subcampanulate, 2| lin. long, finely 

 pubescent without ; throat glabrous ; supra-staminal calli transversely 

 linear, more or less united into a ring ; lobes linear, subobtuse, 3 lin. 

 long. Anthers 2 lin. long, pubescent on the back. Disc shallow, 

 sinuate. Ovary-top black-pubescent. Style very short, obconic, 

 minutely puberulous; stigma semiglobose-campanulate with a slender 

 bifid apex. 



Upper awin^ia. Cameroons : Bipinde, ZenTcer, 2072 ! 



15. B, ogowexisis. Hua in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 2 ser. i. 10. 

 A powerful climbing shrub, quite glabrous except the inflorescences and 

 nerve-axils; young branches compressed near the tips, soon terete, 

 blackish when dry. Leaves oblong, acuminate (acumen rather broad 

 subacute or obtuse, 2-4 lin. long), acute at the base, ^-^ in. long, 

 ll_li in. broad, papery, with small tufts of rust-coloured hairs in the 

 nerves-axils below; secondary nerves 10-12 on each side, with almost 



