ADDENDA. 



lA. GILLETIELLA, De Wild, et Dumnd in Coinptes-rendus 

 Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxix, 71. 



Corolla-tube broadening upwards, gibbous below, curved ; lobes 

 f), spreading. Stamens 4, included, affixed to the tube of the corolla 

 above the middle ; filaments short ; anthers linear, glandular-pilose, 

 bearded at the base ; lobes parallel, unequal at the base. Disk 

 annular, interrupted. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules '1 in each cell and super- 

 posed or solitary, erect ; stigma with two nearly equal lobes ; style 

 flattened. Fruit drupaceous, li-celled, 2-seeded, globular. — A climbing 

 shrub, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves entire. Flowers axillary, 

 solitary, with two large bracteoles which adhere together before flower- 

 ing and at flowering become more or less free to the base. 



1. G. congolana, De Wild, et Durand in Coinptes-rendus Soc. Bot. 

 Belg. xxxix. 72. Leaves obovate, petiolate, narrowed rather abruptly 

 towards the almost hastate- cordate base, acute at the apex, G-8 in. 

 long, 2-4^ in. broad ; petiole about 2 in. long. Peduncle more than 

 2 in. long; bracteoles acute, stated to be "ovate, J-1 in. long and 

 |-1| in. broad," and "to enclose the corolla-tube, which is about 7 lin. 

 long, to the middle " (the dimensions seem incorrect). Corolla-lobes 

 about J in. long. Stamens with filaments only 1 lin. long ; anthers 

 '2h lin. long. Style about 8 lin. long. Fruit described as o in. in 

 diameter and nearly 2| in. in length, grooved at the middle,- with the 

 remains of the style above. 



Ziower Guinea* Congo Free State: Kisai.tu, on the Inkissi River, Gillet. 



The meaning of the plirase " annularibns caljeis brevissimis," used of the cal^x, is 

 not dear. 



(')«. Thunbergia Thonneri, JJe Wild, et Durand in Comptes- 

 rendus Soc. Bot. Bely. xxxviii. 41. A climbing shrub, 10 ft. high. 

 Stems at first sparsely pubescent, soon glabrescent. Leaves ovate, 

 acuminate, acute below, 2^-(i-J in. long, 1-2| in. broad, slightly crisped 

 and toothed at the margin, glabrous, on short petioles. Flowers soli- 

 tary ; peduncles |-1J in. long; bracteoles ovate, represented as shortly 

 acuminate in the figure cited below, but said to be long acuminate in the 

 descriptions, glabrous except near the apex within, 1| in. long, I in. 



