GERANIACE^ (E. G. Baker) 17 



9-10 mm. long ; proximal leaflets 2-4 mm. long. Calyx ± 5 mm. 

 long. 



The distinguishing features of this plant are the leaflets in 15-20 

 pairs, the absence of the peduncle, and the narrow white petals. 



A plant in the Kew Herbarium, from the Bev. W. G. Thomson, 

 from Old Calabar, n. 24, is probably identical with the above. 



Impatiens Talbotii Bak. fil. sp. nov. Herba caule glabro in 

 sicco longitudinaliter striate internodiis inferioribus longiusculis 

 superioribus brevioribus ; foliis alternis membranaceis ovato- 

 lanceolatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis basi rotundatis vel late cuneatis 

 acutis apice ipso obtusis sparse hirtulis margine crenato-serratis 

 crenaturis mucronatis nervis lateralibus utrinque 6-9 arcuatis 

 petiole mediocri suflultis ; racemis axillaribus folio longioribus 

 saepissime laxe 6-9-floris pedunculis pedicellisque hirtulis ; 

 hracteis ad pedicellorum basin angustis pedicellis multoties brevi- 

 oribus ; scimlis angustis ; lahello subito in calcar filiforme longum 

 contracto ; aJis latere exteriore profunde lobatis vexillo multo 

 longioribus ; vexillo ovato in sicco coeruleo ; fructu apice acute 

 basi cuneate. 



Oban ; n. 430. 



Hcrh 15-20 cm. high. Leaves 7-10 cm. long, 4 '0-4 -5 broad; 

 petioles 10-22 mm. long. Bacemes 10-15 cm. long, 6-9-flowered. 

 Pedicels patent, 20-27 mm. long. Bracts ± 2-3 mm. long. S2)ur 

 25-30 mm. long. Wings + 15 mm. long. 



The distinguishing features of this plant, which belongs to the 

 Sect. Longicornes Warb., are the alternate, petiolate, slightly hairy 

 leaves, the 6-9-flowered lax racemes longer than the leaves, the 

 pedicels slender, 20-27 mm. long and the long slender spur 

 (25-27 mm.) and lobed wings. 



Allied to I. filicormi Hook. fil. from the Cameroons, but 

 I. Talbotii has much larger flowers. Allied also to I. i^leistantlia 

 Gilg, in Engler Jahrb. xliii. 124, but I. Talbotii has slightly hairy 

 smaller leaves and shorter petioles, and the racemes are lax, not dense. 



SIMARUBACE^. 



Balanites aegyptiaea Del. var. anglolensis Welw., hitherto 

 known only from Angola, was collected between Garua and 

 Golembe, JS'erth Cameroons. 



MELIACE^. 



Guarea parviflora Bak. fil. sp. nov. Frutex ; foUolis circ. 

 9 oblengo-eblanceelatis vel oblongis viridibus apice acuminatis 

 feliolis distalibus majoribus quam proximalibus subduplo longi- 

 oribus nervis lateralibus in distalibus utrinque 9-10 arcuatis in 

 proximalibus 5-8 ; Jlorihus parvis in paniculam dispositis ; calycis 

 tuho brevi dentibus brevibus ; petalis albis lineari-oblongis ; tnho 



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