4 CIV. NVCTA(;iXE.K (bakeii and avrigiit). [/Jorrltaavia. 



l-Howeied or i^-:')-chotomous and very short ; bracteoles '2-:>, deciduous. 

 Upper part of perianth campanuhite \vitli inflexed margin^, reddish, 

 hirtulous outside; lower part pyriform, dirty greenish, densely covered 

 with rather long glandular hairs aiul iiaving 5 prominent nearly 

 smooth ribs, Staoiens o, unequal, included. Stigma rather large, 

 peltate. — Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. A pp. iii. (17. 



]Lower Guinea, Gt-rnmn South-west Africa: Hererolaiul ; in stony places 

 at Otyuibiiiirue, 2900 ft., Marloth, 1403 I Linden. 



3. B. adscendens, Willd. Sp. PL i. 10. Stem glabrous except in 

 the young parts, ascending, 2-;5 ft. high. Leaves usually opposite, 

 ovate-oblong or -rotundate. slightly sinuate, acute or rather obtuse, up 

 to 2 in. long and \\ in. wide, usually glabrous except when young, dark 

 gi-een above, paler beneath ; petiole up to 1 in. long. Panicle terminal, 

 diffuse, up to 9 in. long; ultimate branches slender, rigid, bearing 4-9 

 sessile flowers ati their apex. Perianth about 1 lin. long. Fruit - 

 perianth elliptic, \\ lin. long, smooth or faintly striate. — Schum. i^' 

 Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 17 ; Vahl, Enum. i. 'l>^:^ ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. 

 PI. Welw. i. 882 partly. 11. ascendens, Choisy in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 

 4;-)!. 



Upper Guinea. Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, .367! Snntlicrn Nigeria: 

 Abeokuta, Irvinr/^ 1301 C^uorra (Niger) liiver, Voqel, 4 1 Nun Kiver, Miitiu,-Vl^\ 



STlle Xiand. I'jijier Sennar : Fa/.okl, Kotschii, 573 partly! SSonialilanil 

 Simile Pass, J/i.y.v Edith Cole I 



Ziower Guinea. IsLuid of St. Tliomas, Mniu), 11()2! Angola: Ambri/,; at 

 (^iisenil)o, WelirHsch, 5382 ! liarra do Daiide : liilly i))aees near tbe nioutli of the 

 Hiver Dande, WelH-Hsch, 5302! Loanda : Ca/anca Island, Wehvifseh, 5383! 

 liilly places at Praia da Zamba Grande, Welirilsch, 5393 I 



HCozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Kirk ! Uritisli Central Afriea : Nyasaland; 



lilantyri', Buchmxin, Sf) I 



4. B. repens, Linn. Sp. ]*l. ed. i. r>. Herbaceous, much-branched. 

 Stems slender, cylindrical, glabrous or nearly so, thickened at the 

 nodes. Leaves in unequal pairs at each node, ovate or lanceolate, 

 acute or obtuse, rounded at the base, slightly undulate, usually 

 glabrous, rarely more than 1 in. long and 9 lin. broad. Peduncles 

 axillary, slender, bearing 4-10-tlowered umbels; bracts small, lanceo- 

 late. Perianth about 1 lin. long; tube clavate, .") ribbed, glandul^ir 

 between the ribs; lobes very short, rounded, pinkish. Stamens l-o, 

 as long as or slightly longer than the perianth. Stigma peltate. 

 Fruit 1^ lin. long, enclosed iii the strongly 5-ribbed glandular basal part 

 of the perianth. — Choisy in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 4:>;; (inch var. yJahra) ; 

 Delile, Fi. Egypte, ii. 2, t. ;5, fig. 1 (var. minor) ; Scluveinf. Beitr. Fl. 

 Aethiop. IGS, and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. li. IGG. Hiern in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welw. i. 882 partly. ]i. vulvar i folia, Poir. Encycl. v. bo. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Leprieur ! 



Wile Ziand. Xnbia : KI Galabeheb, Krnlik! Krkowit Monntain, near 

 Sual<in, Schweinfurth^ 291 1 Wady Abu Selem, iSchweinfurth, 499 ! Kthiopia, 



