Cnestis.'] XLVi. connauace.b (bakkh). 403 



6. C. racemosa, Don, Card. Diet. ii. •>!. A shiul), 10 ft. hij^h, with 

 woody, glabrous, terete branches. Petioles 1^2 in. lonj;, tinn, Klnbrous ; leaf- 

 lets 3-5, the terminal one ovate-oblong, 3-3^ in. long, 2 in. broad, ncuminntr, 

 the base broadly rounded, the lateral ones subopposite, on short peliolulrs. 

 the lowest pair much shorter ; texture coriaceous, both sides glabrous nnd 

 green, veins and veinlets fine, raised. Inflorescence, in the only specimen we 

 have seen*, in a raceme 2-3 in. long, with a slender, finely brown-downy 

 rachis from the end of a branch on one side. Flowers not seen. I'od \ in. 

 long, sessile, obliquely oblong, narrowed below, densely clothed with bright 

 red, velvety tomentum. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leooe, .<4/i^/ettj.' 



