Neurotheca.'] lxxxvii. gentiane.e (uakeu and buown). 5C1 



Also in Guiana a:)d Hrazil, wliere it is probably iiilroduced, 



Octopleura IceseHoides, var. grandiflora, Knol)!. in Bot. Centralljl. Ix. (1894), 

 362, according to Gilg in Kunene-Sambesi Kxpid, 831, is a mixture of 2 spt'cies, one 

 of wliich, collected by Afzelius in Sierra Leone, may be a var. of N. /(tse/ioidfit ; 

 the other is said to be idt-ntical with N. Baumii, Gilg, which appears indistinguisli- 

 able fiom N. covgolana, De Wild, k Durand. 



3. W. robusta, Hua in Bull. Soc. Hot. France, xlviii. 201 and ^fifj. 

 Plant more robust than N. la-selioides, Bcnth., IU-12 in. Iiigli. branch- 

 ing at the base. Leaves up to '2] in. long, 2-3^ lin. broad, very shortly 

 connate, lanceolate-linear, obtuse, slightly constricted at tlie base'; 

 lower in rosettes followed by a very small number of sterile leaves ; 

 upper bract-like, mostly longer than the calyx. Inflorescence occupy- 

 ing nearly the whole plant, racemo.se. Flowers subsessile. Calyx 

 equally and prominently 8-ribbed ; teeth half as long as the tube, acute. 

 Corolla about 5 lin. long, longer than the calyx ; tube slender, slightly 

 enlarged at the throat; lobes ovate, acute. Stamens included, 1 

 shorter than the others ; anthers oblong, very shortly ai)iculate. Style 

 filiform ; stigmatic lobes slightly revolute. 



"Upper Guinea. Frencls Guinea : between Miinea and Frigniabe, PoArr/tn//, 

 13. 



4. N, rupicola, Una in Bull. Sec. Bot. France, xlviii. 2\^-l and 

 2()G. Perennial, simple or branched. Leaves opposite or ternate : 

 lower forming a grass-like tuft, linear, 1-1 i lin. broad, 1-nerved, with 

 thickened margins, falling away after the elongation of the stem, 

 leaving annular scars ; stem-leaves much shelter and mostly ilowei - 

 bearing, equalling or shorter than the calyx. Flowering-stems often 

 crowned with a tuft of leaves. Calyx as in X. robusta, Hua. Corolla 

 ^ in. long, twice as long as the calyx-tube. Anthers oblong, scarcely 

 apiculate. Style almost exserted ; stigma 3-lobed, revolute. Ovule.n 

 about 20. 



Upper Guinea. French (Juinea : Bramaya, on grit-btane rocks. Faroisst, 

 194. 



5. N, Schlechteri, Gilg ined. Plant, in the only specimen seen, 

 1() in. high, glabrous, annual ? Stem slender, with one branch near the 

 top. Leaves in about 12 distant pairs below the intloiescence, :'.-('» lin. 

 long, |-2^-lin. broad ; lower elliptic-ovate, obtuse, more or less narrowfd 

 into a^petiole ; upper sessile, erect, linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse. 

 Inflorescence about S-l in. long, consisting of 5 distant pairs of flowers 

 and a lateral erect branch with 3 flowers. Pedicels U-C lin. long. 

 Calyx-tube 2^-d lin. long, equally and prominently 8-ribbed ; lobes 

 1 hn. long, deltoid, very acute. Corolla whitish in the dried state . 

 tube 3 lin. long, narrowly funnel-shaped; lobes 1^ lin. long, J hn. 

 broad, ovate, acute. Style filiform, not exserted ; stigmatic-lol es 

 linear, suberect, slightly exserted. 



XlXozamb. Bist. Portuguese Fast Afiica: Inhambanr, Schlechter, 12087! 



