INTRODUCTION IX 



The collection includes 1,016 species and varieties, 195 of 

 which are new ; there are nine new genera. The new genera 

 are AliJwnfieopsiK and Denneffia in the order Anonacese, the 

 former allied to the Indian genus AJplionsea, the latter to 

 Melodorum ; Crater anthus, a genus of Myrtacese intermediate in 

 structure between Nnpoleona and the tropical South American 

 AsterantJws ; AfroJiamelia (Rubiacese) most nearly allied to the 

 tropical American Hamelia, and, in the same order, Dorothea 

 and Diplosporopsis, new members of the tribe Gardenie?e, and 

 Glohulostylis, the affinity of which is with Cuviera in the tribe 

 Vangueriefe ; ScypJiostrycTinos (Loganiacefe) closely allied to Strycli- 

 nos ; Talhotia* a member of the tribe Justicia?£e in the order 

 Acanthace?e ; and Amaiiriella, a member of the subfamily Philo- 

 dendroideffi in Aracefe. 



Of the new species seven belong to the order Anonaceae, 

 three to Violacece, three to Guttifera?, one to Malvacete, six to 

 Sterculiacese, including four new Colas, two to Geraniace£e, two 

 to Meliacepe, two to Olacacefe, one to Celastrace?e, three to 

 Sapiudacese, three to Anacardiacese, five to Leguminospe, one to 

 Rosacepe, eight to Myrtacese six of which belong to the genus 

 NapoJcona, three to Melastomacete, thirty-four to RubiacejB, one 

 to Ebenacere, one to Oleacete, twelve to Apocynaceae, four to 

 Asclepiadacese, nine to Loganiacepe, one to Convolvulaceae, one 

 to Pedalinese, twenty-one to Acanthacese, four to Verbenaceae, 

 three to Aristolochiaceae, three to Laurinese, two to Euphorbia- 

 cese, twenty to Orchidacere, two to Liliaceje, and three to Araceae. 



A few specimens have been included in the enumeration 

 which were collected on a journey through Nigeria and the North 

 Cameroons to the Bornu Country and Lake Chad ; the locality 

 of these is indicated in each case. A full list of the plants 

 collected on this journey forms an Appendix to Miss O, Macleod's 

 " Chiefs and Cities of Central Africa." 



Mr. Talbot refers to the extraordinary large number of cauli- 

 florous trees and special attention was paid to these when collect- 

 ing, and Mrs. Talbot has also made careful coloured drawings of 

 the flowers. Many of them are new. Such are several species 

 of Cola, Napoleona and Drypetes, species of Tetrastemma, 

 Ompthalocarpum, Diospyros and others. 



* This is equivalent to Afrofittonia Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xlix. 406, 

 published March 28, 1913, and thus too late for notice in this memoir. 



