Gm-tnera.] lxxkvi. loganiace/e (baker). 543 



Panicle small, lax 3. g. salicifolia. 



Panicle short, dense 4. G. rhodnnthn. 



Corolla ^-h in. long h. G. occidentalis. 



G. morindoides. Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1892, 83, is Morinda lonniflora 

 G. Don. •" ' 



1. G. paniculatay Benth. in IFooh. Niger Fl. 4r)0. An erect 

 shrub, 10-15 ft. high; branchlets glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 

 oblong, acuminate or cuspidate, 4-6 in. long, moderately firm, glabrous 

 beneath when mature ; petiole short ; stipules large, collar-like, 

 conspicuously ciliate. Panicle pyramidal, G-H in. long, with ascending 

 very compound low^er branches ; bracts small, ovate or lanceolate. 

 Calyx campanulate, very small ; lobes very short. Corolla greenish- 

 white, ^ in. long ; lobes oblong, shorter than the funnel-shaped tube. 

 Fruit not larger than a pea. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near the top of Lester Peak, Scott-Elliot, 

 3860! ^C2uYQ\eii WweT, Scott-Elliot ! French Guinea: woods by the Kiver Niger, 

 2itY(iYsa\^, SQotf -Elliot, 532G ! Liberia: Bassa, Vogel, 20\ 71! Ashanti : Assin- 

 Yan-Kumassi, Cummivs, 194! Togo, Boiimann, 494! Lagos: near Lagop, i?ofr- 

 land ! Southern Nigeria : mouth of the River Niger, Mann, 461 ! Brass, Barter, 

 1877! Onitsa, Barter, 1256! and without precise locality, Barter, 1811 ! 



Itovrer Guinea. Corisco Bay: by the Muni (Danger) Kiver, Majin, 1745! 



2. G, Dinklagei, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. S8. A 

 shrub ; branchlets slender, woody, glabrous. Leaves distant, shortly 

 petioled, oblong-lanceolate or oblong, 4-8 in. long, 2-2^, in. broad, acute, 

 narrowed to the base, glabrous, subcoriaceous, penninerved ; stipules 

 triangular. Flowers in a moderately large lax thyrsoid terminal 

 panicle, with pubescent branches ; pedicels very short ; bracts lanceo- 

 late. Calyx obconic, pubescent, J lin. in diam. ; teeth very small. 

 Corolla 1 in. long ; lobes linear, longer than the tube. Fruit globose, 

 glabrous, the size of a small pea. 



upper Guinea. Cameroons : Bipinde, Zp«^-er, 1763 ! 1838! 2034! 2393! 



>). G, salicifolia, C. IT. Wright. A shrub, ft. high ; branchlets 

 slender, glabrous. Leaves distant, shortly petioled, lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, 4-5 in. long, |-]-i in. broad, acuminate, narrowed to the 

 base, subcoriaceous, glabrous, penninerved ; stipules rather large, 

 triangular. Flowers in lax small terminal panicles with glabrous 

 branches; .pedicels short; bracts minute. Calyx obconic, J lin. in 

 diam., not toothed. Corolla l in. long; tube funnel-shaped ; lobes 

 ovate-oblong, as Ions' as the tube. Anthers liiiear, reaching nearly to 

 the top of the corolla-lobes. Fruit unknown. 



Ziower Guinea. Gaboon: on a rocky river bank at Mfoa, So niilos east of 

 the Gaboon, Bates, 516! 



4. G. rhodantha. Baker. An erect shrub, 0-12 ft. high : branchlets 

 stout, glabrous. Leaves oblan^ceolate-oblong, shortly cuspidate, nearly 

 1 ft. long, 3 in. broad above the middle, moderately firm, glabrous on 

 both sides ; petiole nearly 1 in. long ; stipules large, deeply lacerated. 



