Baissea.] lxxxiv. apocynace^ (staff). 21 H 



parallel tertiary ones between them and the transverse veins, sub- 

 horizontal ; nervation and reticulation slightly raised on both sides, 

 faint ; petioles slender, 4-9 lin. long. Cymes few- or many-flowered, in 

 axillary or terminal usually ovoid or obovoid panicles, very minutely 

 furfuraceous, blackish ; peduncles very slender, 4-9 lin. long ; bracts 

 minute; pedicels filiform, up to 1^ lin. long. Calyx globose-ovoid, 

 I lin. long ; sepals ovate, subacute, with a scanty extremely delicate 

 tomentum like that of the pedicels ; intra-calycular glands 5, minute. 

 Corolla white with crimson streaks in the throat, funnel-shaped ; tube 

 subcampanulate, not quite 1|- lin. long, minutely papillose without, 

 glabrous in the throat, calli transversely linear, more or less united into 

 a ring; lobes linear, obtuse, over 2 lin. long. Anthers not quite 1 lin. 

 long, minutely papillose on the back. Disc shallow, sinuate. Ovtiry- 

 top pubescent ; style obconical, rather slender, puberulous ; stigma 

 campanulate, with a long bifid subulate apex. — Hua in Compt. Rend. 

 Acad. Paris, cxxxiv. 857. 



]Lower Guinea. French Congo : Adalina, on the River Ogowe, Soj/aux, 

 278 ! Gaboon : Libreville, Klaine, 9 ! and without precise locality, Klaine, 

 305! 



16. B. leoneusis, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 452. A climbing 

 shrub ; branches covered with a very fine dark rusty furfuraceous 

 tomentum when young, soon glabrescent. Leaves oblong, rarely 

 elliptic, acuminate at both ends or acute at the base, 2J-4J in. long, 

 |-lj in. broad, subcoriaceous, perfectly glabrous, rarely with tufts of 

 hairs in the nerve-axils; secondary nerves 8-12 on each side, raised on 

 both surfaces ; transverse veins very close and fine, raised on both 

 surfaces ; petiole slender, 3-6 lin. long. Panicles few- to many- 

 flowered, axillary and terminal, the lower often much reduced, the 

 upper more compound ; peduncles very slender, up to J in. long, 

 covered like the rest of the inflorescence with the same kind of tomen- 

 tum as the young branches ; bracts small, shortly lanceolate ; pedicels 

 up to 1 J lin. long. Calyx subsemiglobose, | lin. long, minutely fur- 

 furaceous ; sepals ovate, acute; intra-calycular glands 5. Corolla white, 

 with red streaks in the throat, f unnel-fehaped ; tube 2 lin. long, minutely 

 furfuraceous without, glabrous in the throat ; supra-staminal calli 

 short, thick, transversely linear ; lobes lanceolate, 2 lin. long. Staminal 

 cone almost reaching to the corolla-mouth ; anthers 1 lin. long, glabrous 

 on the back. Disc faint, sinuous. Carpels puberulous from the disc 

 upwards; style obconic, papillose; stigma campanulate with a fine 

 subulate bifid apiculus. — K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pfianzenfam. 

 iv. ii. 172 ; Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 89 ; Hua in Bull. Soc. 

 Linn. Paris, 2 s^r. i. 10. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : highlands about Bafodeya, Scott-Elliot, 

 5500 ! and without precise locality, Bon ! Vogel ! 119 !' Gold Coast : Aburi Hills, 

 Johnson, 283 ! Aquapim, 1400 ft., Murphy in Herb. Johnton, 674 ! 



17. B. brachyantha, Stapf in Keio Bulletin, 1894, 125. A 

 climbing shrub ; young branches covered with a very fine, dark, rusty 



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