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pilose ; spines axillary, recurved. Leaves decussate, elliptical, rounded 

 or vi^idely acuminate, apiculate, about U in. long, 9-14 lin. wide, grey 

 pilose on both surfaces ; nerves impres^sed above, prominent beneath, 

 about 7 basal ; petioles about 2 lin. long. Cymes terminal on the 

 branches, dense, many-flowered; peduncles about 4 lin. long, as well as 

 the very short pedicels and calyx grey-hirsute. Calyx 2 lin. long; 

 lobes almost Hnear, recurved at the apex. Corolla shortly pubescent 

 outside ; tube 2-3 times as long as the lobes, long pilose inside the base ; 

 lobes deltoid-ovate, acuminate. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : by the Kulmii^o River below Miissaca, in buml in 

 niaizo-fields, 47(JU ft„ Bamn, 290 ; Huilla, Dekin^t^ 4a. 



2. Anthocleista nobilis, G. Don. Add : A. nujrcscens, Afz. ex 

 Gilg in Engl. Jfihrb. xvii. 575. 



4rt. Anthocleista squamata, De Wild, and Bur. in BidL Herb. 

 Boiss. 2 ser. i. 880. A tree. Branches terete, leafless at the base, 

 unarmed ; internodes about 7 lin. long. Leaves obovate-lanceolate, 

 quite entire, G-10 in. long, glabrous, acute, the upper with petioles H 

 in. long; stipules short; lateral nerves 12-13 each side, midrib and 

 nerves prominent beneath. Panicles terminal, cymose, dichotomous, 

 about 7 in. long ; branches compressed, densely scaly ; pedicels about 

 3 lin. long, compressed, scaly. Sepals suborbicular, about 4 lin. long, 

 glabrous, blackish, the inner rather longer than the outer. Corolla 

 unknown. Fruit subglobose, 16 lin. long, 14 lin. in diam., crowned by 

 the style base, enclosed at the base in the persistent sepals, dark brown, 

 somewhat shining; stalk about 1 in. long, 2 lin. thick. 



Ijower Guinea. Lower Congo : Kimnenza, Gillef^ 1773. 



10a. Anthocleista baertsiana, De Wild. (0 Dur. in Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. 2 str. i. 829. A large tree. Branches terete; internodes about 

 5 lin. long. Leaves near the end of the branches, obovate-lanceolate. 

 acute, attenuate at the base, 10-27 in. long, 3^-7 in. wide, quite 

 entire; midrib and nerves prominent beneath, lateral nerves about 13 

 on each side: stipules semiorbicular, 8 lin. long, 3 lin. wide, undulate; 

 petiole channelled above. Panicles terminal, about 7 in. long, cymose, 

 dichotomous ; branches compressed ; pedicels about 2 lin. long. SepaKs 

 suborbicular, the inner slightly longer than the outer. Corolla longer 

 than the sepals, fleshy ; tube funnel-shaped, about 10 lin. long, A\ hn. 

 in diam. at the apex; lobes 12, oblong, 7 lin. long, 2i lin. wide. 

 Anthers about 12, 3 lin. long; filaments connate about 1 lin. up. 

 Ovary ovoid; style thick, about 14 hn. long, not longer than the 

 corolla; stigma capitate, about 1 lin. in diam. Fruit elliptical, D lin. 

 long, 11- lin. in diam. ; pericarp more or less spongy, 4-lobed. 



XiOTirer Guinea. Lower Congo -. Kisantu, 6ri7/p/, 5(3. 



9a. Belmontia chionantha, Gdgin BauDi, Kunene-Samb. Kxped. 



