Vangueria.'] Lxx. iiUBiACEiE (hiern). 140 



subterete, subcompressed at the extremities. Leaves elliptical, nar- 

 rowed at both ends, velvety especially when young, chartaceons, 2-5 

 by 1-2 in. ; lateral veins about 10 pairs ; petiole tV~4 i"- I stipules 

 caudate-acuminate, from a broad connate base, sheathing, about § in. 

 long, deciduous. Flowers ^1 in. long, pentamerous, appearing below 

 the young leaves, shortly pedicellate, in 2-3-chotomously divaricately 

 branched panicles of about 1 in. diameter ; common peduncle l-^ in. 

 long, bibracteolate. Calyx-teeth fleshy, obtuse, spreading, velvety on 

 both sides, short. Corolla funnel-shaped, half cleft, yellowish green, 

 pubescent outside; throat bearded; lobes ovate, cuspidate, reflex ed. 

 Anthers exserted. Style rather flexuous, glabrous, equalling the 

 corolla ; stigma mitriform, whitish. Ovary 5-celled. Fruit subglobose, 

 4-5-sulcate, smooth, |-1 in. diameter, 4-5-seeded. — V. Barnimiaiia, 

 Schweinf. PI. Nilot. p. 30, t. xi. 



xrile Xiand. Abyssinia, Taccaze Valley, near Tchelatchekaniie, Quartin Dillon ; 

 near Ferrakoba, Schimjper ! 638 ( V. edulis ? Unio itin.), in fruit. .Sennaar, Gebel — 

 Fezogblu and Abu— Sugra on the left bank of the river Bahr-el-azrak, Hartmann. 



I have seen types of neither Bichard nor Schweinfurth's species; the description 

 of the flowers is taken from Schweinfurth's description and figure. 



4. V. senegralensis, Benth. et Booh. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 111. A 

 nearly glabrous intricately branched shrub. Branchlets terete, some- 

 times furnished with short spines of ^ in., scattered at the apex with 

 sparse strigose pubescence or glabrate. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceo- 

 late, obtusely acuminate, acute at the base, rather paler beneath, shortly 

 petiolate, about 1-1-| in. long, pubei'ulous beneath in the axils of the 

 inconspicuous lateral veins or obsoletely so ; stipules pubescent within, 

 connate at the base, apiculate. Peduncles axillary, solitary, bearing 

 one or few flowers, patent, about ^ in. long, twice the length of the 

 petiole. Flowers small, shortly pedicellate ; pedicels with a bracteolc 

 in the middle or beneath the calyx. Calyx-limb very short, acutely 

 5-dentate. Corolla-lobes acute, rather crass. Disk depressed. Anthers 

 5, exserted, subsessile, cordate, puberulous. Ovary 3-4-celled ; style 

 exserted ; stigma capitate, rugulose-sulcate, obsoletely (3-) 4-mamilIate. 

 — llytigynia (Phallaria) senegalensis^ Blume, Mus. Bot. i. p. 179. 



Vpper Guinea. Senegal, Leprieur! (seen in Hb. Mus. Brit., but •v\itliont 

 Blume's authentication.) 



5. V. canthloides, Benth. in Hool. Niger Fl. p. 408. An 

 unarmed shrub of 12 feet, or a small tree. Branches terete, slender, 

 glabrescent ; branchlets alternate, pubescent. Leaves oval or ovate, 

 obtusely acuminate, rounded or somewhat narrowed at the base, 

 chartaceons, with short scattered pubescence, paler beneath (when 

 dry), 1-4 by -^-IJ in. ; lateral veins about 5-6 pairs ; petiole -^ij-^ in. ; 

 stipules subulate from a shoiii sheathing connate pubescent base, ^-^ 

 in. long. Flowers (when expanded) ^ in. long, pentamerous, greenish 

 white ; pedicels slender, short, rather lengthening in fruit, pubescent 

 or glabrate, 3-1 together, on a short common bractoolato axillary 

 peduncle. Calyx pubescent or nearly glabrous ; teeth short, ciliolat^, 



