-2'i4 cxviii. tiiymel.+:ace.e (rEARSOx). [Octolepia. 



persistent. Petals bitid to the buse ; ]o))es linear, i as long as the 

 sepals, with margins fimbriate and closely approximating to form a 

 white urceolate or subglobose tube. Filaments a little exceeding or 

 twice as long as the petals, filiform above, at the base somewhat 

 flattened and pilose. Style very short or twice as long as the densely 

 silky-villous 4-celled ovary ; stigma subcapitate. Fruit dehiscing by 

 4 spreading valves united at the base, not deciduous. Testa dark 

 brown, horny, loosely reddish-pilose. Cotyledons thick. 



Upper Guinea. Ciimcroons : Kbca, Dlnklaf/e, 177 ! Bipinde, Zenker, 3546 ! 



4. O. Casearia, Oliver in Jonm. Linn. Soc. viii. 161. A shrub 

 (;-8 ft. high ; young branches pubescent or puberulous, at length 

 crlabrescent. Leaves shortly {)etioled, obovate-lanceolate, abruptly 

 acuminate, subacute, entire, slightly revolute, membranous, glabrous, 

 with venation very prominent beneath, 4J-9J in. long, 2J-3J in. 

 broad ; petiole thick, densely yellow-pilose, 1-3 lin. long. Flowers in 

 axillary few-flowered (-5-4) fascicles; pedicels yellow-pubescent, 2-3 lin. 

 long. Buds ovate, about as long as the pedicels. Sepals oblong-ovate, 

 obtuse, densely yellow-tomentose without, puberulous within. Petals 

 bifid to the base; lobes oblong, pilose within along the margins and 

 towards the a})ex. Filaments pilose at the base. Ovary densely pilose ; 

 style short. Fruit not seen. 



upper Guinea. Soutlieni Xi^^eria : Old Ciilabar River, Mann, 2306! Old 

 Cahibar, Thomson, 81 ! Spanish Gaboon : Kiver Kon«j^ui, Mann, 1815 ! 



5. O. inacrophylla, Gilg in Enfjl. JaJirh. xxviii. 144. A shrub 

 r»-l() ft. high, with slender stem; young branches densely yellow- 

 tomentose, at length glabrous. Leaves obovate-oblong, long and acutely 

 acuminate, narrowed at the ba.>>e, entire, membranous, glabrous above, 

 pilose with short adpressed hairs beneath, with venation prominent 

 beneath, 7-12 in. long, 2-4 in. broad. Flowers 4-merous, dimorphic, 

 white, densely fascicled at the somewhat swollen yellow-tomentose nodes ; 

 pedicels as long as the flmvers, densely yellow-tomentose. Sepals ovate, 

 broadly imbricate, acute, very densely yellow-silky-villous without, 

 glabrescent within, 2 lin. long, 1 \ lin. broad. Petals bifid to the base, 

 loosely pilo.se on both sides, fimbriate, \ as long as the sepals. Fila- 

 ment filiform, equalling or about twice as long as the petals ; style or 

 rather long ; stigma large, globose. Ovary very densely silky-pilose. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroon'^ : near Mundamo, on tlio Munij^o, 400-440 ft., 

 Staudt, 608 ; Johann-Albrechtshobe, IStaudt, 838 ; Bipinde, Zenker^ 3211 ! 



Iinperfectlu known species. 



6. O. congolana, Warh. in Engl, d: Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 6 A, 5(5. 

 A tree 20-25 ft. high. Leaves shortly petioled, alternate, oblong or 

 obovate-lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat thick, glabrous, paler beneath, 

 very finely punctate. Flowers small, solitary or more usually in short 

 axillary few-flowered cymes. Sepals 4, free, triangular, valvate or 



