21 G Lxxxiv. APOCYNACE^ (stapf). [Baissect. 



tube. Staminal cone | lin. long, reaching slightly beyond the middle 

 of the tube ; anthers with spreading hairs on the back. Disc shallow, 

 sinuate. Carpels puberulous on the top ; style short, obconical, 

 papillose ; stigma campanulate, with a subulate apex. — Hua in Bull. 

 Soc. Linn. Paris, 2 ser. i. 11. Guerkea floribunda, K. Schum. in Engl. 

 & Prantl, Pflanzenfam, iv. ii. 180. 



Zioiiirer Guinea. Gaboon : Munda ; Sibango Farm, Soyaux, 393 ! 



21. B, gracillima, Uua in Bull, Soe. Linn. Paris, 2 ser. i. 12. Young 

 branches compressed, covered with a very fine rusty furfuraceous 

 tomentum, soon glabrous and terete. Leaves oblong to obovate-oblong, 

 acutely acuminate (acumen up to | in. long), rounded (rarely sub- 

 acute) at the base, 3-5 J in. long, l-'2^ in. broad, papery, quite glabrous 

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

 7-10 on each side ; transverse veins subhorizontal, fine, not very 

 close ; petiole 2-3 lin. long. Cymes subumbeiliform, gathered in large 

 compound terminal leafy panicles, 4-6 in. long and as broad, puberu- 

 lous, especially in the upper part ; branches up to 3 in. long ; bracts 

 minute, ovate, acute ; pedicels very short, up to | lin. long. Calyx 

 semi-globose, very minutely pubescent, ^ lin. long ; sepals ovate, sub- 

 obtuse ; intra-calycular glands 5. Corolla whitish, tubular-campanu- 

 late, minutely pubescent without; tube 1 lin. long, throat glabrous; 

 supra-staminal calli ; lobes rather fleshy, linear, obtuse, almost as 

 long as the tube. Staminal cone reaching to the corolla-mouth, 1 lin. 

 long ; anthers villous on the back. Disc 5-lobed. Carpels puberulous 

 on the top ; style very short, obconical, smooth ; stigma oblong- 

 campanulate with a subulate apex. Follicles very slender, constricted 

 between the seeds, 8 in. long. — B. micrantha, Hua, I.e. 11. Guerkea 

 gracillima, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 228. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Yaunde, Zenker ^' Staudt, 124 ! 684 ! 



Ziower Guinea. French Congo : Loudima, Thollon, 1360 ! Forests of 

 Mayombe, Thollon, 1129! 



Incompletely knov:n species. 



22. Oncinotis (?) axillaris. A". Schum. in Engl. Jahrh. xxiii. 

 226. A climbing shrub ; young branches tetragonal, very minutely 

 puberulous, soon glabrous and terete, blackish when dry. Leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate or subobovate-oblong, shortly and very acutely 

 acuminate, rounded at the base, 1-lf in. long, 5-8 lin. broad 

 herbaceous, hispidulous on the midrib below ; petiole scarcely 1 J lin. 

 long. Flowers in axillary fascicles or 5-6 -flowered cymes ; inflores- 

 cences minutely puberulous, scarcely 4 lin. long; pedicels short. 

 Calyx puberulous, | lin. long. Corolla campanulate ; tube puberulous 

 without, 2J lin. long ; lobes 3J-4 lin. long. Anthers J lin. long, 

 sparingly hairy on the back. Ovary sparingly pubescent on the top. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo, Mechow, 569. 



This is almost certainly a species of JBaissea, altliough it seems to liave the 

 iuliorescence of a Zygodia, 



