Fsycliotria.'] Lxx, rubuce^ (hiern). 197 



Calyx small ; limb about as long as tlie ovary ; teeth small. Corolla 

 4-fid ; throat thinly bearded. Anthers exserted. Style bidentate, 

 glabrous, included ; teeth indistinct, erect. 

 Upper Crainea. Fernando Fo, Mann ! 



3. P. setacea, Hiern. A glabrous glaucescent shrub, 2-3 feet 

 high. Branchlets more or less compressed. Leaves oval, acuminate, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, membranous, 5-6 by 2-2^ in., rather paler 

 beneath ; margins narrowly revolute, subrepand ; lateral veins about 

 8-9 pairs, slender, pale ; petiole |— 1 in. ; stipules ^-^ in. long, from 

 an ovate base, somewhat puberulous outside, points setaceous. Flowers 

 teti*amerous, jj-xV ^^- lo^?» ^^^ rather shorter divaricating pedicels, 

 numerous, in hemispherical shortly pedunculate terminal panicles of 

 1^-2 in. diam. ; common peduncle J in. long ; bracts obsolete ; bracte- 

 oles minute. Calyx-limb small, about as long as the ovary, subtruncate. 

 Corolla short, 4-fid; throat somewhat bearded. Anthers nearly 

 included. Style glabrous, included, shortly bifid, with diverging lobes. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, at 4000 feet elevation, February, 

 Mann ! 



4. P. BZannil, Hiern. A shrub. Branches reddish brown, terete 

 reddish-branny and slightly compressed towards the extremities. 

 Leaves oval, subacuminate, usually wedge-shaped at the base, glabrous, 

 chartaceous, rather pale on both surfaces, 2^-4 by 1-1 j in., margins 

 very narrowly revolute ; lateral veins about 8-9 pairs, slender ; stipules 

 ^— ^ in. long, from an ovate reddish branny base, terminating in 2 

 setaceous points. Flowers tetramerous, |- in. long, on shorter pedicels, 

 several together, forming slender pyramidal brachiately branched pe- 

 dunculate ebracteate terminal puberulous panicles rather more than an 

 inch long and equalling the common peduncle. Calyx-limb short; 

 teeth short. Corolla straight ; throat bearded. Anthers included. 

 Style included, bifid. Fruit ^-^ in. diam. 



irpper Guinea. River Gaboon, Mann ! 



5. P. foliosa, Hiern. A small glabrous shrub, 2-3 feet high. 

 Branches very leafy at the extremities. Leaves oblanceolate, shortly 

 acuminate, narrowed gradually downwards towards the obtuse base, 

 chartaceous, 7-9 by 2-2^ in., margins narrowly revolute ; lateral veins 

 about 15-16 pairs, clearly marked beneath as well as the tertiary 

 veins ; petiole about ^ in. ; stipules about ^ in. long, apparently bifid. 

 Flowers \ in. long, tetramerous, on short rather thick pedicels or sub- 

 sessile, closely set in brachiate subterminal pedunculate cymes of about 

 \\ in. in breadth ; common peduncle strict, rather slender, about 3^ in. 

 long ; bracts and bracteoles obsolete. Calyx-limb short, cleft, about as 

 long as the ovary and equalling the disk. Corolla-throat bearded. 

 Anthers included. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra del Crystal, Mann ! 



6. P. lophoclada, Hiern. Glabrous, shrubby, closely branched, 

 ^pale yellowish throughout ; branches terete ; branchlets subterete, with 



