Buddleia.'] lxxxvi. LOGANiACEiE (baker). 517 



5. B. aurantiaco-maculata, Gilg in Enyl. Jahrb. xxx. :377. A 

 shrub, G-7 ft. high ; branchlets tetragonal, clothed with grey haiis whan 

 young. Leaves shortly petioied, lanceolate, 2-5 in. long, A in. broad, 

 acute, crenuiate, conspicuously and persistently auricled at the base, 

 glabrous and densely buUate on the upper surface, densely clothed with 

 grey tomentum and prominently reticulated beneath. Panicle thyreoid, 

 ()-10 in. in diam., sparsely leafy ; cymes capitate ; pedicels very short. 

 Calyx villous, -^^ in. long. Corolla 4-5 times as long as the calyx, 

 orange-yellow, clothed inside with grey tomentum. 



XMEozam'D. Dist. (ieiiuau East Africa: Langenburg ; on the Xgosi or Poroto 

 Mountains, in IJsafa country, 8200 ft., Guetze, 1129. 



In Durand & Schinz's Etudes El. Congo, i. 3 96, the widely cultivated B. mada- 

 r/ascariensis. Lam., is giveu as a plant of the Lower Congo, collected by Pechuil- 

 Loesche. 



5. USTERIA, Willd. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 7'JG. 



Calyx-tube very short ; lobes 4, 3 very small, one large and foliaceous. 

 Corolla salver-shaped; tube long, cylindrical; lobes 4, ov^ate, valvate. 

 Stamens inserced at the corolla-throat opposite the large lobe of the 

 calyx ; filament short, filiform ; anther ovate, with parallel cells. Ovary 

 globose, 2-celled ; style filiform ; stigma subcapitate ; ovules axile, many 

 in a cell. Capsule oblong, coriaceous, septicidally 2-valved ; valves 

 bifid. Seeds minute, flattened, winged ; albumen sparse, fleshy ; embryo 

 straight. — Habit, leaves and flowers of ^trychnos. 

 Monotypic, endemic. 



1. U. guineensis, Willd.; A. DC. Prod. ix. 22. A climbing 

 shrub ; stems 8-10 ft. long ; branchlets glabrous. Leaves ovate, entire, 

 coriaceous, glabrous, penninerved ; lower ;^-4 in. long ; petiole short ; 

 stipule reduced to a mere line. Cymes arranged in copious simple broad 

 axillary and terminal panicles ; pedicels short; bracts ovate, minute. 

 Produced lobe of calyx linear-oblong, ^-\ in. long. Corolla white ; 

 tube \ in. long ; lobes \- yV in. long. Stamens as long as the corolla- 

 lobes. Style exserted. — Konig & Sims, Ann. Bot. i. f>G8, t. 7, fig. 8 ; 

 Hook. Niger Fl., 45(1, t. 45 ; Ic. PI. t. 705. U. volubilis, Afzel. Cen. PI. 

 Guin. 27 with fig. 



Upper Cruinea. Senegambia : Heudehf, b97 I Leprieur, Peruttet. (iauibi i, 

 Brown-Lester, 837! Sierra Leoue : Bunce Island, Kirk I bugarloaf Mouniain, 

 1000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 4025! Sauiu County, Scotl-ElHut, A2-^-6\ near Kitthom, 

 Scott-Elliot, 4317 ! near Kafogo, Scott-Elliot, 5197 ! an 1 without juecise locality, 

 Don J Afzelius. Lagos : near Liigos, Rowland / Yewa Mata, Ftinch, 75 partly ! 

 Ebute Metta, Millen, 23 ! iton, Rowland ! Southern Nigeiia : Nun Kiver, Munn, 

 460! 



G. STRYCHNOS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 



1)7 



Calyx 4-,5-partite ; segments broad and obtuse or narrow and acute. 

 Corolia campanulate or salver-shaped ; lobes 4-5, valvate. Stamens 4-5, 

 inserted at the throat of the corolla-tube ; filaments short, filiform ; 



