21)8 CI. VERBENACE^ (baker). [Ckrodeiidron.. 



length of the corolla-lobes — Henriciues in Bolet. Soc. Brot. xvi. G9. 

 C. triplinerve^ Rolfe in Bolet. Soc. Biot. xi. 87. 



Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Holland ! 



Ziower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 5622 ! 5661 ! MaLmge, 

 Buchner, 77, Mechow, 192, Marques, 9 I 50. 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State: Monbuttn ; y[wnz.\, Schiveinfurfh,^Ad>'^\ 

 and at the Kiissnmbo River, Schireinfurfh, Se-il ! Lunda ; Mussmnba, Foqqe, 338. 



XVIozamb. Dist. CJennan East Africa : Karagwe; Knkoba, Sfuhlmann, 1026. 



I cannot from the description separate C. Lujcei, De Wild & Durand in Coniptes- 

 rendus Soc. Hot. Belg. xxxviii. 213, collected by L"ja on the Lower Congo 



11. C. ovale, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Jfossamb. Bot. 257. A 

 shrub 0-7 ft. high, with woody glabrous branchlets. Leaves 2-3-nate, 

 distinctly petioled, oblong, obtuse, entire, cuneate at the base, 1^-2 in. 

 long, finely pubescent, copiously gland-dotted. Cymes few-flowered, 

 terminal and axillary; pedicels finely pubescent. Calyx pubescent^ 

 ^ in. long ; tube campanulate ; lobes suborbicular. Corolla-tube J in. 

 long ; lobes small, subequal. Stamens longer than the corolla-lobes. 

 — Yatke in Linntea, xliii. 537. 



Mozamh. Bist. German East Africa : Usambara ; Muoa, Hoist, 3076 

 Usararao : Bagamo} o, Hildehrandt, 1298 ! Portuguese East Africa : Rio de Sena, 

 Peters. 



12. C. Barteri, Baker. A shrub, with finely pubescent branchlets. 

 Leaves shortly petioled, oblong or obovate-oblong, 4-G in. long, cuspi- 

 date, entire, narrowed to the base, moderately firm, green and glabrous 

 above, slightly pubescent on the main veins beneath. Cymes dense, 

 terminal, peduncled, 2 in. diam. ; bracts linear ; pedicels short. Calyx 

 glabrous, J- in. long; tube campanulate; teeth ovate, spreading, nearly 

 as long as the tube. Corolla v.'hite; tube cylindrical, twice the length 

 of the calyx ; segments of the limb obovate, ^V in. long. Stamens 

 3 times the length of the corolla-limb. 



Upper Guinea. Niger Delta : Kras.«, Barter, 51 ! 



13. C. toxicarium. Baker. A shrub, with pubescent woody 

 branchlets. Leaves petioled, oblong, entire, acute, 3-6 iii. long, 

 rounded at the base, nearly glabrous above w^ien mature, finely 

 pubescent beneath. Cymes many-flowered, dense, long-peduncled, 

 forming an ample terminal panicle ; branches finely pubescent ; pedicels 

 short. Calyx pubescent, J in. long ; teeth ovate, as long as the cam- 

 panulate tube. Corolla-tube \—h in. long ; lobes obovate, yV in. long. 

 Stamens -^ in. long. Drupe the size of a pea. 



Mozamb. I>l8ta British Central Africa: Nyasaland; River Shire, Kirk! 

 Shibisa (Chikwawa), Meller ! Blantyre, Buchanan, 179! and without precise locality, 

 Buchanan, 1075 ! 



1-4. C. tanganyikense. Baker in Kevj Bulletin, 1805, 71 An 

 erect shrub, with densely pubescent branches. Leaves opposite, 



