Gomphia.'] xxxv. ochnace.'e (olivek). 321 



the base. Stipules 2-fid or at length free. Flowers yellow to ornnjje-red 

 in terminal panicled simple or compound racemes, exceeding' or e(iualli'i»jr ihe 

 upper leaves; pedicels usually fascicled at short intervals'^ alonj; the ruchis 

 from short common lateral peduncles, more rarely inserted singly, nrticu- 

 lated at or near to the base, \-\ in. long. Sepals at length :i 4 line^, linear- 

 oblong to lanceolate or ovate-oblong, obtuse in fruit, patent or reflexed, 

 usually nerved. Petals obovate, narrowed more or less to the base. Anthers 

 sessile or subsessile, elongate. Drupes 2-3 (rarely 5) lines h^ng, ellipsoidal or 

 subglobose.— G. /^vo, Schum. et Thonn. Guin' PI. 2ir) (exdescr). (}. 

 mdcrophylla, Hook. f. in Lond. Journ. Rot. vi. 2. G. Turnercf, Hook. f. 

 Fl. Nigrit. 273 (a finely acuminate nearly entire-leaved form). 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone ! various collectors. Fernando Po T. Wx/el ' (lunibia 

 Old Calabar, W. C. Thomson ! 



Var. )8. ((?. Schwnleiniana, Klolzseh in Sclioenl. Nachl. (Extr.) 23S. t. 4) diflVrs in 

 having the leaves narrowed to an eniarginate base. I have not seen specina-ns. Ca|H: 

 Piihnas, Schuenlein. 



Var. 7. {G. micrantha, Hook. f. in Jonrn. Linn. Soc. vi. 8). Flowers very small, red 

 Clarence Peak, Fernando Po, 5000 ft., Manu ! 



4. G. Vogelii, Hook. f. FL Nigrit. 272. Characters of above, ditTcr- 

 ing in the rather larger coriaceous leaves, G-10 in. long, and the ascending 

 and rather broader fruit-sepals from \-^ in. Flowers not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Grand Bassa, T. Vogel ! Brass, Barter ! 



5. G. elongata, OUv. A shrub "of 10-12 ft." Leaves subinem- 

 branous, subsessile or very shortly petiolate, elongate, narrowly obianceolate- 

 oblong, acute or acuminate, base abruptly contracted, truncate or scarcely 

 subcordate, denticulate-serrate, midrib and principal lateral veins prominent 

 below; 8-16 in. long, 2-3 in. broad. Stipules connate, 2-Hd, intra-axilhiry. 

 Flowers in elongate interrupted racemes from the axils of ordinary or reduced 

 squamiform leaves, on long peduncles with the raceme 12 it. long, re- 

 sembling those of G. dependem, occasionally giving off 1 or 2 short lateral 

 branches below; pedicels solitary or in fascicles of 2-6, \-\ in. long. Sepals 

 lanceolate-oblong, subacute. Petals oblanceolate, rather longer than the 

 sepals. Anthers sessile. Fruit-sepals \ in. or less than \ in., shorter than 

 the subglobose or obovoid raised drupes which are slightly keeled when dry. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann ! 



This may prove to be a form, modified perhaps by shade, of 0:7nacrop/iylla. 



6. G. Manniiy OUv. Shrub from 3 or 4 to 10 ft. Leaves large, sub- 

 sessile, more or less coriaceous, elongate-oblanceolate-oblong, acute or 

 shortly acuminate, narrowed to the rather broad subcordate base, denticulate, 

 serrate, midrib and principal lateral veins prominent below; y in. to 2 fl. 

 long, 2-4|- in. broad. Stipides apparently distinct. Flower:* in lateral or 

 subterminal crowded racemes, together with the peduncles 6 10 in. long. 

 Pedicels interruptedly and usually densely fascicled, ^ \ in. long; base of 

 pedicels below the articulation persistent. Sepals oblong- huurolnte, r«th«-r 

 obtuse. Petals obovate- or oblanceolate-oblong. Filaments very short or 

 anthers subsessile, produced above into a narrow linear extremity, dehiscing 



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