222 Lxxxiv. APOOYNACE^ (stapf). [Ouciitotis. 



subobtuse, 2 lin. long ; throat-scales linear, up to J lin. long. Anthers 

 slightly over 1 lin. long. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Efulen, Bates, 403 ! 



4. O. campanulata, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrh. xxiii. 227. Quite 

 glabrous except the inflorescences. Young branches compressed, at 

 length terete, reddish-brown or brown. Leaves oblong to elliptic- 

 oblong, acufninate, shortly acute or obtuse at the base, 3 to more than 

 5 in. long, 1 J-2| in. broad, papery, thin ; secondary nerves 7-9 on each 

 side, oblique, very slender, finely channelled above, slightly prominent 

 below ; reticulation rather loose, inconspicuous below ; petiole 5-8 lin. 

 long, slender. Panicles lateral and terminal, more or less nodding, 

 many- or few-flowered, linear or lanceolate, or if short ovate in outline, 

 up to 2h in. long (without the peduncle) and to 1\ in. wide at the base, 

 delicately and minutely rusty-tomentose, at length glabrescent in the 

 lower parts ; peduncle slender, much compressed, glabrous, up to 2 in. 

 long ; bracts minute, early deciduous ; pedicels very short, the longest 

 up to Ij lin. long. Calyx Ij lin. long; sepals rotundate-elliptic, very 

 obtuse, thin, delicately pubescent, eglandular. Corolla-tube inflated, 

 l|-2 lin. long, delicately and minutely tomentose without above the 

 middle ; throat-scales linear from a broad base, thick, over J lin. long, 

 conspicuous ; lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, 1 J lin. long. Anthers l^^ lin, 

 long. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Yaunde, Zenker Sf Staudt, 19, 530 ! 544 ! 



5. O. glabrata, Stapf ex Uiem in Cat. Afr. PI. Welio. i. 674. A 

 very tall climber, perfectly glabrous except the inflorescences ; branches 

 terete, brown when dry. Leaves oblong, abruptly acuminate, shortly 

 acute or rounded at the base, 2^-4 in. long, 1|-1| in. broad, papery, 

 usually glossy on both sides ; secondary nerves 5-9 ; veins joining in a 

 loose slightly raised network ; petiole slender, 6 lin. long. Flowers in 

 slen der often paired axillary panicles, l|-4 in. long, or reduced almost 

 to racemes, very finely rusty puberulous ; bracts minute, caducous ; 

 pedicels 1 J lin. long or hardly any. Calyx 1 lin. long, finely pubescent ; 

 sepals ovaie, obtuse, ultimately recurved at the tips. Corolla greenish- 

 yellow, very finely pubescent without, subcylindric in bud ; tube 1 J-2 

 lin. long ; lobes oblong, as long as the tube ; throat-scales J lin. long, 

 linear-oblong. Follicles lanceolate, with a curved acumen, over 4 in. 

 long, glabrous. Seeds 5J lin. long; coma IJ lin. long. — Motandra 

 glahrata^ Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 760 ; K. Schum. in Engl. & 

 Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 164. 



Zio-wer Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto j in forests by the Ambaca Road, 

 Welwitsch, 5957 ! in forests on the Queta Mountains, Welwitsch, 5958 ! banks of 

 the River Coango, Welwitsch, 6014 ! 



6. O. tenuiloba, Stapf in Kew Bulletin^ 1898, 307. A climbing 

 shrub, quite glabrous except the young branchlets and inflorescences; 

 young branches delicately tomentose, soon glabrous, slender. Leaves 

 lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong, acutely acuminate, acute at the base, 



