182 CL. aroidejE (brown). [Cercestis. 



tate-lanceolate or hastate ; front lobe oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 acute ; basal lobes j-2 in. long, usually deltoid, obtuse, more or less 

 divergent, separated by a large sinus. Peduncle 2J-3J in. long. 

 Spathe about 2 J in. long, convolute, slightly constricted below the 

 middle, apiculate, green. Spadix about 2 in. long; female part J-J 

 the length of the male part. Ovary shortly ovoid; stigma broadly 

 orbicular. Berries 4-4 J lin. thick, red. Seed about J in. long, ovoid. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Batanga, on forest trees and shrubs, Dinklage, 

 790, 1302. 



KoT^er Guinea. Gaboon : Munda ; Sibange, at Abandu River, Buttner^ 518. 



I have not seen tliis species. 



5. C, kamerunianus, X. E. Br. Stem about ^ in. thick, glabrous, 

 rooting as it climbs. Leaves spreading or ascending, glabrous ; petiole 

 2-4 in. long, slender, terete, flattened down the face, with a very broad 

 sheath about \ in. long; blade 5-8 in. long, 2-o in. broad, lanceolate- 

 oblong, acute or acuminate, narrowed from below the middle to the 

 shortly cordate base. Peduncle \-^h in. long, terete, smooth. Spathe 

 l|-2 in. long, convolute at the base, expanded above, concave, obtuse. 

 Spadix about as long as the spathe or a little longer, cylindric; female 

 part about J in. long. Ovary globose, 1- rarely 2-celled ; stigma sessile. 

 - — Alocasiophyllum kamei'uniaimiu, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 449, t. 19 ; 

 Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 475 ; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

 Nachtr. zu ii.-iv. 60. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Barombi District, at Wege, between Kmnba 

 >.'inga and Mokonje, Preitss, 147 (ex Engler). 



laovrer Guinea. Gaboon River, Mann, 1041 ! 



16. ANUBIAS. Schott; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 975. 



Spathe expanded nearly to the base or convolute to the middle, 

 persistent. Spadix longer or shorter than the spathe, free, monoecious, 

 without an appendix ; male and female parts contiguous. Perianth 

 none. Female flowers : Ovary 2-3-celled ; style very short or ; stigma 

 discoid or cushion-like ; ovules numerous in each cell, anatropous, axile. 

 Male flowers : Anthers 5-6, connate into a sessile hexagonal truncate 

 body, opening by subterminal pores. Berries enclosed within the 

 spathe, subglobose, 2-3-celled, many-seeded. Seeds small, irregularly 

 ovoid ; testa rather thick ; albumen fleshy ; embryo axile. — Herbs with 

 creeping stems or rhizomes. Leaves alternate, petiolate, pinnately 

 veined ; veins numerous, parallel ; petiole sheathing. Peduncles 

 axillary, solitary, elongated. 



An endemic genus of 7 or 8 species. 

 Leaves lanceolate, broadest at the middle, at least 3 

 times as long as broad; midrib and veins quite 

 glabrous beneath. 

 Blade of leaf 9-12 in. long ; spathe 2\ in. long, con- 

 volute 1. A. Afzelii. 



