Afromendoncia.] xcviii. acanthace^ (burkill). 7 



1 lin. long; with 5 small teeth. Corolla purplish, nearly included 

 within the bracteoles ; tube nearly straight ; limb campanulate, with 5 

 nearly equal lobes, about 5 lin. long. Anthers oblong, :^ lin. long ; 

 filaments glandular-pilose at the base. Style 5 lin. long, bifid at the 

 apex. Drupe elliptic-oblong, about 10 lin. Jong. — Liraya Jiorihunda^ 

 Pierre in Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, ii. 340, 342. 



:Lo\irer Guinea. Gaboon : near Libreville, Jolly, 101. 



Only known from the original description, in which it is said to dider from 

 Afromendoncia in having pendulous ovules, but the agreement is so close in other 

 respects as to suggest that, as Lindau recognises (Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 

 ;}04), it must be referred here. Mr. Clarke, who has seen a drawing of the plant, 

 considers it very near to A. lindaviana, Gilg. 



3. A. gilgiana, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 1. Stems climbing, 

 4-angled, slender, villous-pubescent when young, afterwards glabrous. 

 Leaves petiolate, oblong-ovate, shortly acuminate and apiculate, not 

 rugose, l|-3 in. long, f-lj in. broad ; lateral nerves 5-G pairs, 

 anastomosing near the margin, pilose beneath ; petioles J-1 J in. long, 

 villous. Flowers in axillary fascicles of 2 to 4 on the young branches ; 

 pedicels 6-9 lin. long, villous with fulvous hairs ; bracteoles 2, broadly 

 ovate, mucronulate, 5-6 lin. long, villous with fulvous hairs. Calyx 

 very short, obscurely lobed. Corolla white ; tube | in. long, 1 lin. 

 broad below, 3 lin. broad at apex ; lobes rounded, somew^hat spreading. 

 Anthers 2 lin. long, acute, pilose at the base ; filaments short. Style 

 I lin. long. — Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv., 3 B, 200, 201, 

 iig. 115, D-M. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Yaunde, Zenker, 439! between Barombi-ba-Mbu 

 nnd Kake, Preuss, 439, 481 ! 



Nile Iiand. British East Africa : Upper Ituri, West of Lake Albert, Stuhlmann. 

 A species with the facies of, and probably referable to, A. giUjiana has been 

 collected in Uganda, Scott -Elliott, 7331! The specimens are unfortunately flowerless. 



4. A, phytocrenoides, Gilg ex Lindau in Engl. Jahrh. xvii. 112. 

 A woody climber, " 30 ft. high " (Ma7in). Stems twining, stout, sub- 

 terete, pilose when young, afterwards nearly glabrous. Leaves petiolate, 

 broadly ovate or suborbicular, obtuse or shortly cuspidate, subcordate at 

 the base, firm, rugose and glabrous above, stellate-pubescent and 

 reticulated beneath, 3J-6J in. long, 2|-4| in. broad ; margin somewhat 

 undulate and revolute ; lateral nerves 5-7 pairs; petioles 1-1} in. 

 long. Flowers in axillary fascicles of 2 to 6 on the young branches ; 

 pedicels 4-6 lin. long, villous with long fulvous hairs. Bracteoles 2, 

 ovate, acute or cuspidate, |-1 in. long, villous with long fulvous hairs. 

 Calyx cupulate, very short, obscurely crenulate. Corolla-tube slightly 

 exceeding the bracteoles ; lobes roundish-oblong, somewhat spreading. 

 Anthers linear-oblong, acute or apiculate, 3-4 lin. long, cordate-sagittate 

 at the base ; filaments short. Style slightly exserted, minutely bifurcate 

 at the apex. — Oliv. in Ic. PI. t. 2427. Thunhergia phytocrenoides ^ 

 T. Anders, ex Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 113. 



Aower Guinea. Gaboon : River Muni, Mann, 1839 I 



