224 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACE^ (stapf). [Oncinotis. 



Imperfectly known species. 



9. O. cWorogena, K. Schum. in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsbhuk- 

 Exped. 307. A liane with yellow flowers. 



Upper Guinea. Lagos : in forest near Ikoradu, Schlechter, 12996 ! 



10. O. subsessilis, K. Schum. I.e. Flowers whitish with 5 

 purple streaks in the throat. 



Upper Guinea. Lagos : Yoruba; Isliagamo, Schlechter, 12310. 



41. MOTANDRA, A. DC. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 715. 



Calyx small, herbaceous, eglandular ; sepals almost free, imbricate, 

 ovate, obtuse. Corolla slightly funnel-shaped to salver-shaped ; tube 

 cylindric or almost so, comparatively wide, with h longitudinal grooves 

 outside and corresponding slightly projecting ridges inside descending 

 from the sinuses to the middle, and there touching a ring of hairs con- 

 sisting of 5 supra-staminal arches ; mouth naked ; lobes linear-oblong 

 or ovate, overlapping to the right. Stamens inserted above the base of 

 the corolla-tube ; filaments filiform-clavate, short ; anthers conniving 

 into a cone, included, linear, terminating in a minutely plumose mucro, 

 sagittate ; appendages slightly shorter than the polliniferous part ; tails 

 short, very obtuse, recurved ; foot of the connective projecting, glabrous 

 above, papillose below. Disc cupular, 5-lobed, fleshy. Carpels 2, 

 free, slightly inferior, adnate to the disc up to or beyond the middle ; 

 style very short ; stigma spindle-shaped, 2-lobed, lobes linear ; ovules 

 pluriseriate, numerous. Mericarps follicular, lanceolate in outline, 

 divaricate. Seeds oblong, obtuse at both ends, with a long deciduous 

 apical coma; endosperm scanty. Cotyledons foliaceous, thin; radicle 

 short. — Scandent shrubs. Leaves opposite, papery; secondary nerves 

 distant ; axillary stipules ; axillary glands 0. Panicles terminal, 

 rather loose; flowers -inconspicuous. 

 Species 3 endemic. 

 Bracts very small, inconspicuous; flowers white ; 

 corolla -lobes longer than the tube. 

 Panicles linear, when elongated usually not more 

 than 1 in. wide; leaves with patches of white 

 liairs in the nerve-axils below . . . . \. M. guineensis. 



Panicles pyramidal, up to more than 3 in. v\ide at 

 the base ; leaves usually without patches of lia'ra 



in the nerve-axils below 2. M. pyramidalis. 



Br cts foliaceous, up to 3^ lin. long; flowers yellow ; 



corolLi-L)bes shorter than the tube . . . 3. Jf. Ltijcei. 



1. M. guineensis, A. DC. Prod. viii. 423. A small, more or less 

 scandent shrub ; young branches slender, densely fulvo-tomentose, 

 ultimately glabrescent and reddish-brown. Leaves oblong to oblong- 

 lanceolate or obovate, acuminate, (acumen short or up to f in. long, 

 narrow),obtuse at the base, 2-4 in, long, 1-1 J in. broad, fulvo-tomen- 



