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long ; sepals 5, broad, rotundate. Corolla perfectly glabrous without ; 

 tube cylindric, slightly constricted at the middle and the mouth, :', lin. 

 long; lobes ovate, 1^ lin. long. Stamens inserted 2 lin. above tlie 

 base of the corolla-tube ; filaments sparingly hairy at the base ; anthers 

 ovate, acute. Ovary glabrous, acute ; carpels 2-ovuled. 

 Ziower Guinea. Gaboon, Bulla tj. 



This is undoubtedly a species of Fleiocarpu, evidently very close to P. bicar- 

 pellata. 



2. Rauwolfia caffra, bonder. Add : De Wild. Etudes Fl. 

 Katanga, i. 102. 



12. Rauwolfia Cumminsii, Stajyf. Cymes 3-7 -flowered ; 

 peduncle 2 in. long. Calyx 1-| lin. long. Corolla-tube 4 A lin. long, 

 cylindric, constricted at the mouth and in the uppermost J, viUous within 

 just below the mouth, sparingly hairy below the stamens for a short 

 distance ; lobes broad-ovate, obtuse, J lin. long. Disc tubular, enclosing 

 the free carpels to or beyond the middle. Style glabrous. 



Upper Guinea. Liberia ; without precise locality, Whijfe ! 



A curious state of this species was collected by ^Vh}'te in Liberia, within 20 

 miles of Karka Town. It has an appearance ratlier different from that of tl)e other 

 specimens of R, Cumminsii, owing to the more abundant development of inriorcs- 

 cences and the reduction of the foliage. The fruits are mostly solitary meiicarps 

 and convex on both sides, although much more so on one side than on the oilier. 

 The young flowers of the specimen agree, as far as they go, exactly with those of 

 R. Cumminsii. 



Vda. Rauwolfia liberiensis, Stapf. A perfectly glabrous shrub ; 

 young branches terete or the youngesc slightly angular. Leaves in 

 whorls of usually 4, lanceolate or oblanceolate, acutely acuminate, long 

 attenuate at the base, o-6 in. long, |-H in. broad, thinly membranous ; 

 secondary nerves 9-12 on each side, much spreading, curved ; veins 

 quite obscure; petioles o-6 lin. long. Flowers pedicelled in a-7- 

 Howered umbelliform cymes ; cymes gathered in a o-rayed umbel ; 

 peduncle slender, up to 1 J in. long ; rays 5-10 lin. long, more or less 

 unequal ; pedicels very slender, up to 2 lin. long. Calyx h lin. long ; 

 segments ovate, acute. Corolla-tube 2-2}i lin. long, villous near the 

 mouth, pubescent below the stamens within ; lobes subrotuudate, obtu^^e, 

 scarcely h lin. long. Carpels free surrounded by a truncate disc to the 

 ndddle. " Style glabrous. Fruit unknown. 



Upper Guinea. Liberia; Sinou Hasin, Whyle ! 



Very similar to i2, momlasiana, but less robust, with sliorter peticle-, fc\M-r 

 secondary nerves, less compound inflorescences and sb-htly smaller flowers, 



14. Rauwolfia vomitoria, Afz. Add : De Wild. Ktudes Fl. Bas 

 et Moyen Congo, i. 70. 



Upper Guinea. Liberia : interior of Monrovia, J/Vvy/r/ Crcenville, Stm, 51 

 South Central. ('oi.p> Free Slate: Lcndu, linta;i< ^111.. 6V//,Y. 21IG2) ; 



Hangala, JJeiiitKuc. 



