272 xxviii. LiNEiE (OLIVER). [Hugonia. 



Lower Guinea. Cazengo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



Allied to R.foliosa, which differs in the thick, early -deciduous tomentum which clothes 

 the young, more acuminate leaves, and in the form of the inner sepals. 



6. H. Planchoni, Hook. f. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 526. Branches 

 rusty- or tawny-pubescent. Leaves firm, rather coriaceous, oval-oblong or 

 oblanceolate-oval, acute or acuminate, narrowed to the base, rather remotely 

 serrulate, glabrous, excepting the puberulous midrib ; lateral veins \ to nearly 

 \ in. apart, connected by numerous transverse veinlets ; 5-6 iH. long, l|-2 

 in. broad; petiole \ in. or less. Stipules pinnatipartite with 2-3 subulate 

 segments on each side, deciduous ; bracts similar. Sepals ovate-lanceolate ; 

 margins invqlute above. Petals at least two to tl^ree times longer than the 

 sepals, oblong-cuneate with a short, abrupt, narrow claw 1-1^ lines long. 

 Ovary glabrous or with few hairs at the top ; ovules geminate. Drupes 

 globose.— Fl. Nigrit. t. 27. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! T. Yogel ! etc. ; Accra, T. Voyel ! Bagroo 

 river, Mann I 



7. H. platysepala, Welw. mss. A shrub attaining 6-8 ft. Extre- 

 mities puberulous or rusty with appressed or scarcely spreading pubescence. 

 Leaves firmly membranous or subcoriaceous, broadly oblanceolate or obo- 

 vate-oblong, acute or cuspidate, narrovyed to the petioie, broadly and ob- 

 scurely undulate-serrate or nearly 'entire, early glabrous and shining above ; 

 midrib and at iirst lateral veins with appressed hairs* beneath ; 4-6 in. long 

 (or, in barren shoots, 6-9 in.), 1^-2^ in. broad ; petiole about \ in. Pa- 

 rallel curving lateral veins ^-^ in. apart. Stipules very early deciduous, 

 palmatifid, silky-tomentose. Flowers 1-1 1 in. across, in short axillary and 

 terminal, few-flowered racemes with a common peduncle of i-1 in. or race- 

 mosely fascicled towards the ends of long axillary leafy or leafless often 

 hook-bearing shoots ; pedicels j-^ in., pubescent. Outer sepals smaller, 

 ovate-rotundate, broadly pointed, with revolute margins ; inner, equally or 

 unequally broadly obcordate, apiculate, keeled below. Petals four to six 

 times longer than the sepals, cuneate, thickened at the base with a very short 

 claw, thinly appressed-pilose outside. Ovrfry glabrous, except the apex. 

 Styles elongate, pilose below ; ovules geminate. Fruit globose, orange- 

 coloured, about I" in. diam., sub-10-sulcate when dry. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po and Prince's Island, Mann 1 

 laoiptrer Guinea. Golungo Alto, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 



4. PHYLLOCOSMXJS, Klotzsch ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 245. 



Sepals 5, rather unequal. Petals 5, contorted, raarcescent, unappendaged. 

 Stamens 5 or 10 ; filaments connate at the base in a broad ring or very short 

 tube. Ovary 3-5-celled ; cells 2-ovulate. Style simple ; stigma terminal, 

 3-5-denticulate or -lobulate. Capsule "dehiscing septicidally," 1- or 2- 

 seeded. — Glabrous shrub or tree. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, penniveined, 

 entire or obscurely and remotel}' serrulate or toothed. Flowers rather small, 

 in axillai-y, often fascicled racemes or terminal panicles, pedicellate or sessile. 

 —{Fentacocca, Turcz. in BuU. Mosc. 1863. i. 600.) 



