Alcho7'iu'a.\ cxxii. £UPiioEBiACE.« (pkain). 917 



petioled, moderately firm, obloDg or oblanceolHte-oblong, acute, entire 

 or crenate, much narrowed to the narrow-truncate or cuneate base, 

 4-6 in. long, I-2J in. wide, glabrous, penninerved, with 1-2 pairs of 

 glands at or near the base on the lower side ; petiole J in. long or less ; 

 stipules subulate. Male spikes copiously panicled ; panicles terminal ; 

 buds globose, J lin. wide. Female flowers in simple terminal lax spikes. 

 Capsule 3-celled, smooth, finely pubescent, J in. across ; styles bimple, 

 linear-subulate, J in. long. — A . Jlorihunda, var. glabrata, MUll. Arg. in 

 Journ. Bot. 1864, 336, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 905 ; Hiern in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welw. i. 979. 



Upper Oulnea. Caineroons : Bipiude, Zenker, 4087 ! 



irile Iband. Uganda: Entebbe, Bagshawe, 713 ! 



JtO-w&r Guinea. Fiench Congo: Mayuinba forests, jTAoZZow, 1110! 12851 

 River Alinia, Thollon, 946 ! 947 ! Angola : Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 352 ! 



Soutb Central. Belgian Congo: Nianiniam; Yuru River, Schweinfurtht 

 3275! 



Mozamb. Blstr. German East Africa : Ainani, Zimmermann, 93 ! 151 ! 

 880 ! Usanibara, 4000 ft., Buehwald, 247 ! 249 ! Lulindi, Liebusch ! Nquelo, 

 3300 ft., Schejffler, 51 ! Urundi ; Kiriba, 7000-8000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 8278 ! 8307 I 

 Rujrege Forest, 6300 ft., Mildhraed, 914 ! Kwidjivi Island in Lake Ki\ u, 5300 ft., 

 Mildbraed, 1207 ! 



Also in Natal. 



4. A. hirtella.y Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 507. Small shrub ; twigs 

 pilose. Leaves short-petioled, moderately firm, oblong or oblanceolate- 

 oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, entire or crenate, narrowed to a 

 rounded base, 21^-5 in. long, 1-2 J in. wide, usually hispid on the midrib 

 beneath, penninerved, with a pair of glands at the base on the lower 

 side ; petiole hispid, \-\ in. long ; stipules subulate. Male spikes 

 copiously or sparingly panicled, rarely simple, terminal ; buds globose, 

 J lin. wide ; rhachis pubescent. Female flowers in simple terminal lax 

 spikes. Capsule 3-celled, muricately tubercled, pubescent, J in. across; 

 styles simple, linear-subulate. — Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 904 ; 

 Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 23 ; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen- 

 Congo, ii. 280 ; Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 649 ; Th. & H61. Durand, 

 Syll. Fi. Congol. 494. A.Jloribunda, De Wild. <fe Durand, PL Thonner. 

 Congol. i. 20 ; Th. & Hel. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 494, partly ; not of 

 Miill. Arg. A. comoensis, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Ivii. Mem. 

 viii. 124. 



Upper Guinea. Seneganibia : Rio Nunez, Heudelot, 746 ! French Soudan 

 Banancoro, Chevalier, 499 ! French Guinea : Kouria, Chevalier, 14707 ! Conakry, 

 Maclaud, 55 ! JDyhowsJci, 47 ! and without precise locality, Far mar, 206 ! Sierra 

 Leone: River Pungas, ^/rWt«5 / Scarcies River, ^cott-Elliot,^^^^ \ 4629! 47141 

 and without precise locality, Smeathmann / i^iboria : Grand Bassa, Togel, 35 ! 

 Binklage, 1723! 1814! 2017! Ivory Coabt : River Conioe; between Alepe and 

 Malamalasso, Chevalier, 17507 ! 



Soutb Central. Gaboon : Boniindo, Duparquct ! near Libreville, Klaine, 

 634! 1230! Belgian Congo: Bangala; Afongala, Ngali, 1500 h. Tkonner, 14! 

 Aruwimi; Isangi, ia«yen^; and without precise locality, Dexoevre ! 



