Trachyphrynium.'] cxxxiv. scitamine^ (baker). 319 



acuminate, pilose, connate in the lower half. Outer staminodia obovate, 

 obtuse. Capsule trigonous, densely echinate, 2 in. diam. ; valves 

 acutely keeled. Seeds globose. 



ITpper Guinea. Cameroons : near Barombi, Preuss, 32, 321! 340; low foreat 

 Between Karombi and Kumba, Preuss, 60 ; forest north-west of Makonje, Preuss, 78 ; 

 between Kumba-Nenga and Mambanga, Preuss, 144! 



Ziower Guinea. Gaboon : Munda; Sibange Forest, Buettner, 541, 544. 



2. T. danckelxnannianuxKiy J. Braun d: Schumann in Mitth. 

 Deittsch. Schultzgeh. ii. (1889) 153. Branchlets woody, terete, stramineous, 

 armed with small hooked spines. Leaves oblong, acute, firm, glabrous, 

 3-5 in. long, lJ-2 in. broad, rounded at the base; sheaths glabrous, 

 2-3 in. long ; thickened free apex of the petiole J in. long. Inflor- 

 escence simple, with a very flexuose rhachis and very short internodes ; 

 bracts orbicular^ erecto-patent, glabrous, J in. long and broad. Ovary 

 densely hairy. Flower J in. long. Sepals small, lanceolate, Corolla- 

 tube longer than the sepals. Fruit densely echinate, 2 in. diam. ; 

 valves rounded on the back. — Schumann in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 429, figs. 

 L, M, 432. 



Upper Guinea> Cameroons: common in woods, Braun! near Bipinde in 

 forest, Zenker, 929 ! near Barombi, Preuss, 255 ! 4-07 ! Yaunde, Zenker &■ Staudt, 

 610! 



Iiower Guinea. Gaboon : Munda ; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 85 ! 



3. T. braunianum. Baker. A tall shrub, with terete, woody, 

 stramineous, unarmed, sarmentose branchlets. Leaves firm, glabrous, 

 oblong, cuspidate, 3-6 in. long, lJ-3 in. broad, rounded at the base ; 

 sheaths glabrous, 2-4 in. long ; free thickened apex of the petiole \ in. 

 long. Inflorescence simple, spreading from the tip of the stem ; rhachis 

 pubescent, flexuose ; internodes about \ in. long ; bracts oblong-lanceolate, 

 f-1 in. lon^. Flowers in pairs, whitish, 1 in. long. Sepals lanceolate, 

 pubescent, J in. long. Outer staminodia obovate, twice as long as the 

 sepals. Capsule subglobose, densely muricate, J in. diam. Seed 

 subglobose, brown, \ in. diam., with a large basal aril. — Hybophrj/- 

 nium braunianum, Schumann in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 428, 429, figs. A, 

 F, H, K. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : in a ravine near Mount Leicester, Barter ! 

 near Wilberforce, Johnston ! woods near Kambia, Scott-Elliot, 4508 ! near Kafogo, 

 Scott-Elliot, 4464! Duunia, Scott-Elliot, 4884! and without precise locidity, 

 Afzelius ! Don! Gold Coast, Burton Sf Cameron! Lagos, Moloney! Yorubi, 

 Moloney ! Western Lagos, Eowland ! Niger Delta : Abo (Ibu), Vogel, 13 ! Lower 

 Niger: OmiB?^, Barter, 1784! Old Calabar, Thomson, 108! Cameroons: Cameroon 

 River, Mann, 2146 ! Batanga ; near Lobe River, Bates, 201 ! on the Tobacco Farm 

 of Kriby, in low forest, Preuss, 256. 



KTlle Ziand. British East Africa: Niamniam ; Atasilii Brook, Schweinfurih, 

 3061 ! Mbrwole River, Schweinfurth, 3085 ! Nabambisso River, Schweinfurth, 2934, 

 3044, 3713. 



Iiower Guinea. Corisco Bay, Mann, 1909 ! Lower Congo : Stanley pool, 

 Callewaert ! left bank of the Congo below Kobaka, Buettner, 546 ! 



