342 xxxviii. CHAiLLETiACE^ (oliver). [ChaiHetiu. 



ii. 30) is, as pointed out by Mr. Bentham m Fl. Nij;rit.,a Chailletia. The description does 

 not enable me to distinguish it from C. ioxicaria. 



An allied plant, perhaps a new species, from Cape Coast {Brass), \% ia the herbarium of 

 the British Museum. 



6. C. oblonga, llook.f. FLlSigrit. 277. Shrub. Extremities slender, 

 glabrous or at first minutely puberulous. Leaves petiolate, oblong- or slightly 

 obovate-elliptical, shortly rather obtusely acuminate, base acute or cuneate, 

 usually drying pale green, glabrous, 2^-5 in. long, 1-2^ in. broad ; petiole 

 1^-3 lines. Stipules subulate. Flowers 2-3 lines, in small, lax, branching, 

 axillary cymes of 1-1^ in. ; pedicels equalling the calyx more or less ; bracts 

 very minute. Calyx-lobes erect, oblong. Petals free, narrowed into a long 

 pilose claw ; lamina 2-partit^. Ovary tomentose-pubescent ; style long, fili- 

 form, shortly and obtusely 2-lobed at the apex. Fruit obovoid-oblong, to- 

 mentose, about 1^ in. long in our specimen. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, T. Vogel ! Barter ! Mann ! 



7. C. Thomsoni, Oliv. A small tree with glabrous or glabrescent 

 extremities. Leaves petiolate, oblong-elliptical, rather coriaceous, acute or 

 shortly acuminate, base rounded or broadly acuminate, 6-8 in. long, 2-3 

 in. broad; petiole \ in. Flowers 2-3 lines, in axillary, sessile or subsessile, 

 cymose, hoary-pubescent fascicles, scarcely twice exceeding the petiole ; pe- 

 dicels equalling or shorter than the flowers, with minute lanceolate-subulate 

 bracts. Calyx-lobes erect. Petals 2-partite. Ovary pilose, narrowed into 

 the slender style shortly 3 -fid at the apex. 



Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, W. C. Thomson ! 



8. C. mossambicensis, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 108. t. 19. 

 Leafy branches pilose or hirsute with spreading hairs exceeding a short pu- 

 bescence. Leaves subsessile or very shortly petiolate, obovate-elliptical or 

 -oblong, rather broadly acute or obtuse, mucronate or shortly apiculate, dis- 

 tinctly cordate at the base, with scattered appressed hairs and soft or at 

 length scabrid above, paler pubescent or at first tomentose beneath, 3-6 in. 

 long, H-2f in. broad. Stipules setaceous or filiform. Flowers in axillary 

 pedunculate cymes, 1-2 in. long ; bracts setaceous ; pedicels slender, pilose, 

 articulated above, 1-3 lines long. Calyx-lobes obtuse, whitjsh-tomentose 

 externally, at length recurved. Petals free ; lamina obovate, 2-partite, nar- 

 rowed at the base. Ovary villous, 3-celled ; style short. 



Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Peters ! Rovuma river, Dr. Kirk ! 



9. C. rufipilis, Turcz, in Bull. 3Iosc. xxxvi. (1863) 611. A climber, 

 attaining 15-20 ft. ; leafy branches rusty-hirsute. Leaves shortly petiolate 

 or subsessile, obovate-elliptical or oblong-elliptical, acute or apicidate, base 

 obtuse rounded or slightly cordate, entire, scabrid-pubescent thinly hispid 

 or glabrate above, midrib setose-hairy, paler or white and shortly hoary- 

 tomentose beneath, the nerves darker and coarsely hairy ; 2-4 in. long*, |— 2 in. 

 "broad; petioles 0-3 lines. Stipules subulate-setaceous." Flowers about 3 

 lines long in rather dense very shortly pedunculate cymes or flowers fewer and 

 nearly sessile; pedicels ^-1^ lines; bracts setaceous. Calyx-lobes erect, 



