Glerodendron.'] ci. verbenace^e (baker). 305 



lobes lanceolate, acuminate, twice as long as the tube. Corolla-tube 

 pilose, twice as long as the calyx. Stamens very long. 



Wile Iiand. British East Africa: Mpororo; Kayoiixa Mountain, Sluhlmann, 

 3061, 3096. 



Iiow^er Guinea. Lower Congo ; Manga, Dupuis. 

 Soutb Central. Lunda : Lulua River, Preuss. 



39. C. Buchneri, Gilrke in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 172. A shrub 

 with pubescent young branchlets. Leaves shortly petioled, obovate- 

 lanceolate, 3-4 in. long, \-\^ in. broad, entire or slightly undulated, 

 narrowed to the base, shortly cuspidate, glabrous above, pubescent with 

 raised veins beneath. Inflorescence terminal, capitate ; pedicels very 

 short ; bracts foliaceous, oblong-lanceolate. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 

 pubescent, | in. long ; lobes long, ovate- lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla- 

 tube long, glandular-pubescent; limb J in. long; lobes unequal. 

 Stamens much exserted. 



"LkO-wer Crulnea. Angola : at Quifocussa on tlie River Kuango, Mechow, 557a, 

 Malange, Mechow, 429 ; Feira, Buchner, 572. 

 Near C. capitatum, Schumach. & Thonti. 



40. C. strictuxn, Baker. Stems woody, simple, erect, pubescent, 

 Ij ft. long. Leaves opposite, close, short-petioled, ascending, oblong, 

 subcoriaceous, entire or irregularly repand, 5-6 in. long, subglabrescent 

 above when mature, pubescent beneath principally on the raised veins. 

 Cymes dense, terminal, globose, many-flowered ; pedicels very short. 

 Calyx hairy, | in. long; tube very short; lobes large, ovate, acute, 

 foliaceous. CoroUa white; tube hairy, '1-2^ in. long; lobes subequal, 

 oblong, \-\ in. long. Stamens an inch long. 



XiOwer Cruinea. Angola: province of Pungo Andongo, Weltcitsch, oQ^b \ 



41. 0,c?i'pit2itMm.y Schumach. d:Thonn.; Schauer iuDC.Prod.x'i. 673. 

 An erect shru b, with densely hairy branchlets. Leaves opposite, distinctly 

 petioled, oblong or obovate-oblong, acute or cuspidate, entire or slightly 

 sinuate, |-1 ft. long, when mature nearly glabrous above, pubescent 

 beneath. Flowers in dense sessile terminal heads 6-1) in. diam. ; bract.s 

 lanceolate, foliaceous, pubescent, as long as the calyx. Calyx pubescent, 

 l^-J in. long ; tube short, funnel-shaped ; segments ovate, acute, densely 

 ciliate. Corolla white; tube slender, pubescent, 3-4 in. long; lobes 

 obovate, subequal, ^ in. long. Stamens curved, 2-3 times the length of 

 the corolla-lobes. — Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 4355; Benth. in Hook. Niger 

 Fl. 486. C. rohustum,, C. stenanthurti and C. mossambicense , Klotzsch in 

 Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 258-259. C . francavilleanmn, Buchiuger, 

 ined. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal: Mbidjeni, r/u'(?/rv .' Ganjl)ia, Ingram ! Sierra Leone, 

 Whitjield ! Gold Coast: Aquapim Mountains, Votjel! Lagos: Papalizato, Millen, 

 45 ! Abeokuta, Irving, 111 ! at t)ie contluen.-e of tlie Niger and Henue Hivt-rs. 

 Barter! Lower Niger: Onitsa, Barter., 312! Canieroons : Cameroon Mountain, 

 3000 ft., Mann, 1957 ! Rio del Rey, Johnston ! 



