420 cxxxix. DioscoREACEiE (baker). [Dioscoo^ect. 



furih, 365! Galabat : Matamiiia, Schweinfurth, 589! 591! Abyssinia, Schimper ! 

 Quartin-Dillon. British East Africa : Niamniam ; Tuhamis Seriba, Schweiufurth, 

 3779! 



£ower Culnea. Island of St. Thomas: Correa, 150 ft., Quintas, 104; ! 

 Angola : Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 4052 ! 



XWEozaxnb. Bist. Portuguese East Africa : Morambala Mountain, Kirk ! 

 Lupata, on the River Zambesi, Kirk ! British East Africa : Nyasaland ; Manganja 

 Hills, Metier ! Namasi River, Cameron ! Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 184 ! Upper 

 Shire Valley, Kirk ! Shibisa (Chikwawa) to Tshinnjuzo, Kirk ! and witliout precise 

 locality, Buchanan, 46 ! 204 ! 



10. D. phaseoloides, Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xv. 141). Stems slender, 

 twining, unarmed, pubescent. Leaves alternate, distinctly petiolate, 

 trifoliolate, subcoriaceous, pubescent on both sides; leaflets obscurely 

 stalked ; end leaflet oblong, with a distinct mucro, 2-2 J in. long, | in. 

 broad at the middle ; venation pinnate ; side leaflets slightly obtuse. 

 Male flowers in short dense spikes fascicled in the axils of the leaves or 

 produced from leafless nodes ; bracts broadly ovate, cuspidate, densely 

 pubescent. Male flowers seen only in the bud stage. Female flowers 

 and fruit unknown. 



Xrile £and. British East Africa : Niamniam ; at Gumango Hill, Schtveinfurth, 

 3928 ! 



17. D. Vespertilio, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 538. Whole plant 

 quite glabrous. Leaves alternate, subcoriaceous, trifoliolate, long- 

 petiolate ; leaflets distinctly stalked, the end one obovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 rounded at the base, 2-3 in. long, 1-1 J in. broad above the middle, 

 with 1-2 alternate veins branching from the midrib. Flowers unknown. 

 Capsule with an axis 1-1 i in. long and two transversely oblong wings 

 1-J in. long. Seeds unknown. 



upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Uon ! 

 No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 



18. D. (Helmia) beccariana, Martelli, Fl. Bogos. 83. Stems 

 slender, twining, unarmed, pubescent upwards. Leaves alternate, 

 distinctly petiolate, 5-f oliolate when fully developed, membranous, sub- 

 glabrous or more or less pubescent ; leaflets obscurely stalked, obovate 

 or oblong, distinctly mucronate, obtuse or acute, penninerved, reaching 

 3—4 in. long, IJ in. broad. Male flowers in dense fascicled shortly 

 peduncled axillary spikes, sometimes from leafless nodes ; bracts ovate, 

 cuspidate, membranous, pubescent, twice as long as the flowers. Male 

 perianth pubescent, ^ in. diam. ; outer segments ovate, obtuse ; inner 

 narrow. Fertile stamens 3, shorter than the perianth. Female 

 flowers in long lax spikes. Ovary cylindrical, densely pubescent. 

 Capsule oblong, acutely angled, glabrous, | in. long. Seeds | in. long, 

 with a basal oblong wing 3 times the length of the nucleus. — 

 D. schweinfurthiana, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 141). J), pentaphylla, 

 A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 317, not of Linn. D. qiuartiniana, Engl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 172, not A. Rich. D. quartiniana, var. 

 pentadactyla, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 148. Botryosicyos pentaphyllus, 



