Baissea.] lxxxiv. apoctnace^ (stapf). 21 *> 



Dewevr. 157) Guerkea uropetala, as collected by Dewcvrc near Wangata on the 

 Middle Congo. Dewevre, in a note cited in the same place, describes the plant as a 

 decumbent shrub with red flowers growing on ant-hills. 



19. B. elliptica, Stapf. A climbing shrub, quite glabrous, except 

 the inflorescences and sometimes the nerve-axils ; young branches com- 

 pressed, at length terete, fuscous when dry. Leaves elliptic to ovate, 

 rarely oblong-elliptic, acutely or subacutely acuminate, shortly acute or 

 rounded at the base, 2-3 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, papery or thinly 

 coriaceous, quite glabrous, rarely with small tufts of rufous liairs 11 the 

 nerve-axils ; secondary nerves 5-7 on each side, oblique, faint ; trans- 

 verse veins subhorizontal, obscure ; petiole 4-6 lin. long, slender. 

 Cymes subumbelliform, gathered in lax more or less divaricate axillary 

 and terminal panicles ; lower panicles more slender and very loose, up to 

 3 in. long, the upper often paired, the terminal 3-4-nate, more com- 

 pound, 1-2 in. long, all finely blackish-furf uraceous ; peduncles up to 

 1 in. long, very slender; bracts minute ; pedicels fihform up to 1 lin. 

 long. Calyx campanulate-ovoid, f lin. long, finely furfuraceous ; sepals 

 ovate, subacute, intra-calycuJar glands 5. Corolla finely papillose without, 

 campanulate ; tube lJ-2 lin. long, glabrous within above the transveise 

 subsemicircular calli ; lobes subulate-linear, from a broader base, al^out 

 as long as the tube or rather shorter. Anthers not quite 1 lin. long, 

 minutely papillose on the back otherwise glabrous or with 1 or 2 hairs. 

 Disc shallow, sinuous. Ovary-top pubescent ; style short, obconicul, 

 papillose ; stigma campanulate, with a subulate apex. 



upper Guinea. Cameroons: Yaunde, Zenker Sf Sfaudf, 722! Bii)iude, 

 Zenker, 1257a ! 1286 ! 



K. Schumann quotes "Zenker, 722" from Yaunde as the type of his Ouerkea 

 uropetala. A specimen, how ever, of Zenker & Staudt 722 from Yaunde, received as 

 Guerkea vropetala from Berlin does not answer to the description of that species, us 

 it has corollas half as long with lobes rather shorter than the tube, not conspicuously 

 longer. Possibly the label was misplaced. 



20. B. dichotoma, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, lS94f 125. AcHmbing 

 shrub ; young branches minutely rusty-furfuraceous, soon glabrescent. 

 Leaves oblong-elliptic, gradually tapering into a long acute or sub- 

 obtuse acumen, acute at the base, up to 4 in. long and Ih in. broad, 

 subcoriaceous,fulvo-tomentoseinbud, soon quite glabrous except for tufts 

 of rufous hairs m the nerve-axils ; secondary nerves (j-8 on each side, 

 oblique; transverse veins very fine, faint; petiole slender, 8-11 lin. 

 long. Cymes in compound axillary and terminal panicles or corymbs 

 with spreading branches and branchlets, covered with the same kind of 

 tomentum as the young branches, up to 2J in. long ; bracts minute 

 ovate or lanceolate, acute ; pedicels up to 1-J lin. long. Calyx minutely 

 furfuraceous or tomentose, Ij lin. long ; sepals rotundate, obtuse; intia- 

 calycular glands 5. Corolla very finely furfuraceous without; tube 

 urceolate, not quite 2 lin. long ; throat glabrous, supra-staminal calli 

 transversely linear ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, subacute, as long as the 



