1C8 cxv. MONiMiACE^ (baker akd wkight). [Glossocahjx, 



Leaves alternate, oblong, long-acuminate, symmetrical at the base, 

 6-8 in. long, 2-2i in. wide, entire or with remote small teeth, mem- 

 branous, penninerved ; petiole 3-5 lin. long. Flowers in axillary 

 fascicles of 4-5 ; pedicels very slender, up to 8 lin. long, hairy. 

 Perianth obliquely campanulate, 1-1 J lin. wide, unequally toothed, 

 produced on one side into a narrow lip nearly 1 in. long. Disk adnate 

 to the perianth-tube, and in the male almost closing it at the throat, 

 in the female fleshy and protruded between the carpels. Stamens 

 included ; filaments short, broad, slightly connate ; anthers ovate, 

 introrse, 2-celled, opening upwards by valves. Carpels many, each one 

 enclosed in a hollow of the disk ; style subulate ; ovule solitary, erect. 

 Fruit (immature) subglobose, angled, fleshy, crowned by the withered 

 perianth. — Perkins tk Gilg in Engl. Pflanzenr. Monim. IIG. 



Upper Guinea. Canieroous: Bipimle, Zenker, 1784! 2482! 2992a! 3083! 

 Fernando Po, Mann, 1428 I 



Xiower Gulne^.. Gaboon: Sierra del Crystal, Mann, 1723 I 



2. G. Staudtii, Enyl. Jahrh. xxvi. 384. A shrub, up to 13 ft. 

 high, strigose on all the young parts with fascicles of hairs. Branches 

 slightly flexuous. Leaves oblong (lanceolate, Engler), often unequal at 

 the base, long-acuminate, remotely denticulate, up to 8 in. long and 

 2 J in. wide, strigose beneath especially on the nerves ; lateral nerves 

 about 10 each side arcuately ascending. Male flowers unknown ; 

 female solitary or several axillary ; pedicels 4 lin. long. Perianth-tube 

 campanulate ; limb narrow, produced on one side into a linear lip 

 about 4 lin. long and 1 lin. wide. Disk forming a fleshy ring at the 

 throat of the perianth. Carpels about 6 ; ovary ovoid, densely pilose ; 

 style filiform. — Perkins k Gilg in Engl. Pflanzenr. Monim. 117. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Lolodorf, on the Lokunje River, at 1600 ft. in 

 damp shady places, Staudt^ 28 ; Joliann Albrechtsliohe, Standi, 808 ; in woods near 

 Kribi, Dinklarje, 1483 ; Bipinde, Zenker, 1887 ! 



3. G. brevipes, Benth. in Hook. Ic. PL xiv. 2, t. 1302. A shrub, 

 10 ft. high. Young branches with fascicles of short stiff' hairs. Leaves 

 oblong, long-acuminate, 8 in. long, '1\ in. wide, obliquely cordate at 

 the base, quite entire, glabrous above, hairy beneath especially on the 

 nerves; petiole 1 lin. long. Flowers in axillary fascicles; pedicels 

 villous, 2 lin. long. Perianth \\ lin. in diam., oblique, green, pubes- 

 cent outside ; lip about 2 in. long, 2 lin. wide at the base, triangular. 

 Carpels about 5, fusiform, hairy. — Perkins k Gilg in Engl. Pflanzenr. 

 Monim. IIG. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Caircroon Kiver, J/a»», 722 I 2196 



2. CHLOKOPATANE, Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 383. 



Flowers dioecious. Perianth 4-partite, when closed depressed- 

 conical with valvate segments, when open patelliform ; segments ovate- 

 lanceolate. Stamens numerous, subsessile; anthers ovoid, conniving 

 at the apex, bursting by longitudinal slits. Female flowers unknown. 



