Dicranolepis. 



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Petals not longer than the calyx-lobes. 



Calyx-tube glabrous or glabreseent. 



Flowers exceeding 1 in. long. 



Leaves glabrous or glabreseent beneath . 4. D. stenosiphon. 

 Leaves adpressed-pubescent beneath . . b. D. Schiceinfurthii. 



Flowers not more than ^ in. long . . 6. D. Buchholzii. 



Calyx-tube pubescent or toinentose. 



Flowers 2 in. long; disc fleshy . . 7. D. usamharica. 



Flowers not more than 1^ in. long ; disc 



leathery 8. I>. vestita. 



Stigma club-shaped. 



Petals distinctly longer than the calyx-lobes. 

 Calyx -tube glabrous or glabreseent . 

 Calyx- tube covered with stalked glands . 

 Calyx-tube pubescent, tomentose or villous. 

 Leaves rhomboid, not exceeding 1^ in. long . 

 Leaves elliptic, not less than 3 in. long 

 Petals not longer than the calyx-lobes. 

 Calyx-tube glabrous or glabreseent. 

 Flowers in pairs in the leaf-axils 

 Most or all of the flowers solitary 

 Calyx-tube pubescent or tomentose. 

 Calyx-tube not less than 1 in. long. 



Leaves glabreseent or sparsely adpressed 

 pnberulous beneath. 

 Petal-segments entire .... 

 Petal segments more or less incised. 



Calyx-tube glabrous within . . 15. D. laciniata. 



Calyx-tube pubescent within . . 16. D. pubescens. 



Leaves densely pilose beneath . . . 17. -D. Soyauxii. 



Calyx-tube not exceeding ^ in. long . . 18. D, parvifiora. 



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12. 

 13. 



I>. convallariodora. 

 D. glandvlo.sa. 



D. polygaloides. 

 D. Fersei. 



D. Mannii. 

 D. disHcha. 



14. D. polygaloides. 



1. D. pulcherrima, Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xxiii. 20o. A shrub 

 €-13 ft. high ; young branches pubescent, later glabrous. Leaves 

 obliquely oblong, caudate-acuminate, acute, entire, very shortly petioled, 

 glabrous above, adpressed-pubescent beneath, 2-3 in. long, about 1 in. 

 broad. Flowers 5-merous, solitary, white {Standi), sessile, about 2 in. 

 long. Calyx-tube slender, cylindric, clothed with dense white pubes- 

 cence ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, finely pubescent, paralled -veined, less 

 than J as long as the tube, at length reflexed. Petals exceeding the 

 calyx-lobes, divided to the base ; segments oblong, deeply laciniate 

 towards the apex, at length reflexed. Ovary glabrous. Fruit not 

 seen. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : in moist shady places on Mapinda Mountain, 

 near Lolodorf, about 2000 ft., Staudt, 321 ! 



2. D. thomensis, Engl, d- Gilg in Engl, Jahrh. xix. 273. Young 

 branches puberulous, later glabrous. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceo- 

 late, somewhat oblique, long-acuminate, obtuse, quite glabrous above, 

 adpressed-pubescent beneath, 2-2| in. long, about 1 J in. broad ; petiole 

 very short, pubescent. Flowers (apparently) solitary, sessile ; calyx- 

 tube stout, pubescent, f in. long ; lobes lanceolate, about \ as long as 



