92 TiXX. EDBiACEiE (hieen). [Tarenna. 



margins nearly flat ; lateral veins 6-10 on each side of the midrib; 

 petioles ranging to 1 in. ; stipules wide, iV~8 ^^* 1^"&» snbtmncate, 

 shortly apiculate. Flowers pentamerous, l-l^ in. long, on pedicels 

 ranging up to ^ in. long, in comparatively lax terminal cymes. 

 Calyx ^ in. long, snbtmncate, minutely dentate. Corolla- tube 

 narrowly cylindrical slightly funnel-shaped, green outside ; limb J in. 

 diam., white inside. Anthers ^— J in. long. Style exserted as far as the 

 anthers or rather farther, somewhat hairy on the middle part. Ovules 

 4 together, compressed, discoid. — Stylocorijne grandifioray Benth. in 

 Hook. Niger Fl. p. 390. 



TTpper Guinea.. Fernaudo Po, Th. Vogel ! Barter ! Mann ! 



10. T. nigrrescens, Hiem. Glabrous except the style the throat of 

 the corolla and inside the stipules. Leaves lanceolate or oval, obtuse, 

 wedge-shaped at base, glossy above, black, in the dry state, 1-3 by 

 ■|— 1^ in. ; lateial veins 5-6, vague ; margins slightly thickened beneath ; 

 petiole ^-^ in.; stipules deltoid, obtuse, ^ in. long, bearded 

 within, with scarious margins. Flowers 4-5.merous, J in. long, ex- 

 clusive of the anthers and style, on drooping pedicels ranging up to 

 I in. which are bibracteolate in the middle, in lax many-flowered 

 cymes. Calyx truncate, campanulate, subentire. Corolla-lobes oblong, 

 obtuse, ^ in. long ; throat bearded. Anthers }—^ in. lonsr. Style 

 hairy in the middle, exserted as far as the anthers. Ovules 3 together, 

 sessile, inserted side by side on the upper part of the placenta. — 

 Coptosperma nigrescenSy Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 

 p. 87, quoad flores. 



Mozamb. Bistr. Moramballa, Kirk ! 



27. ENTEBOSPERMUM, Hlern. 



Calyx campanulate or cup-shaped, glabrous ; limb short, with 5 

 small erect persistent teeth open in aBstivation. Corolla funnel-shaped ; 

 tube shortly exserted glabrous outside ; throat puberulous ; lobes 5, 

 dextrorsely contorted in aestivation as seen from outside, ova^, spread- 

 ing. Stamens 6, inserted on the throat of the corolla, glabrous, 

 exserted ; anthers linear, fixed at the back above the base, versatile ; 

 filaments short. Disk annular, glabrous. Ovary 2-celled; style 

 glabrous above, somewhat pubescent below, exserted, about equalling 

 the corolla, thinly club-shaped above ; stigma undivided ; ovules 2-3 

 together, collateral ; placentas inconspicuous. Fruit pisiform, 1- or 

 incompletely 2-celled ; pericarp thinly fleshy ; endocarp crustaceous. 

 Seed solitary ; testa thin, deeply intruded into the transverse rumina- 

 tions of the horny albumen. Embryo nearly straight, small ; radicle 

 terete, inferior. — A glabrous rigid shrub, with opposite obtuse cori- 

 aceous leaves, rather large ovate interpetiolar undivided caducous 

 stipules, and rather small white hermaphrodite flowers arranged in 

 minutely bracteolate terminal pedunculate corymbose panicles. 

 A new endemic genus. 



