Ilostitea.] Lxxxvi. loganiace.e (baker). 509 



opaque. Flowers C-0 in dense subcapitate terminal cymes. (Jalyx 

 5-partite, J in. long; lobes linear-setaceous, papillose. Corolla 2-;i 

 times the length of the calyx ; tube funnel-shaped ; lobes suborbiculur. 

 Stamens 5, subequal. 



Xiower Guinea. Lower Congo: in forest at Mayombe, Laurent; Hingila, 

 Dupuis. 



19. M. Camporum, Gilg in Engl. ^aAri. xxviii. 117. A shrub, 

 1-2 ft. high ; young branches clothed with thick hairs. Leaves sub- 

 sessile, obovate-oblong, under 1 in. long, acute, cuneate at the base, 

 glabrous, opaque. Flowers axillary or terminal, solitary, pedicel short, 

 glabrous. Calyx-lobes free, linear-setaceous, J in. long, glabrous or 

 ciiiate. Corolla 5 times the length of the calyx ; tube narrowly olj- 

 conic ; lobes ovate, acute. Stamens twice as long as the calyx. Style 

 twice as long as the stamens, thickened upwards. 



Mozamb. Dlst. German East Africa : Usagara ; at the northern edge of the 

 Khutu Steppe near Mgunda, 1000 ft., Goetze, 379 ! 



20. M. congolana, i?a/l-er. A shrub ; young branchlets pubescent, 

 older glabrous. Leaves subsessile, ovate or ovate-oblong, H-2 in. long, 

 shortly acuminate, rounded at the base, subchartaceous, at tirst densely 

 clothed on both sides with yellowish pubescence. Peduncle .V~iV ^"• 

 long, often furnished with a pair of bracteoles. Flowers 2—4 in a 

 cluster ; involucral bracts broadly ovate, with pilose margins. Calyx- 

 segments nearly free, ~ in. long, acute, densely pilose. Corolla J in. 

 long, J-tV in. in diam. at the throat ; lobes suborbicular. Stamens very 

 unequal, the two longest rather shorter than the tube. Style half as 

 long as the tube. — Coinochlamys congolana, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 

 107 ; De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 12o, and in 

 E-eliq. Dewevr. IGO. 



Xtower Guinea. Lower Congo : Bangala, Hens, C. 107. 



Soutb Central. Lunda : in shady places by the liUachim l^iver, Marques, 

 247. 



21. M. hirsuta, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 244. A shrub, 

 1 ft. high ; branchlets slender, densely hairy. Leaves ovate, hairy, sub- 

 sessile, J-1 in, long ; stipules minute. Cymes terminal ; flowers :>-;'), 

 crowded, hidden by the suborbicular hairy bracts ; peduncle and pedicels 

 very short. Calyx yV in. long ; tube very short ; lobes ovate. Corolla 

 I in. long; tube narrowly funnel-shaped; lobes suborbicular. Stamens 

 4, inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube. Ovary hairy. Fruit 

 not seen.— Coinochlamt/s hirsuta, T. Anders, ex Benth. et Hook, 

 f. Gen. PI. ii. 1091 ; S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1H7G, :J21, t. 1H2, lig. 2. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia : amongst rocks at Karkan»ly (Kakandy r), 

 Ileudeloi, 800 (ex Baillon). Sierra Leone: by the Kiver IJngru, Mann, Sll ! 

 Kalu-eni, Scott-Eliiot, 5637 ! 



22. M. gabonica, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 24.'). A 

 much-branched shrub ; bark blackish ; branchlets slender. Leaves 



