96 SOUTH NIGERIAN PLANTS 



peduncles 1 cm. or so long, and very slender branches of thrice that 

 length. Bracts 2-3 mm. long, ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 minutely silky pubescent on the back. Pedicels usually 1-2 mm. 

 long. Perianth-tube 1'25 mm. long; lobes 1"5 mm. ciliolate. 

 Stamens of the two outer whorls 1*15 x 0*8 mm., of the extrorse 

 whorl 1*15 mm. long, the glands at the base of these obovoid and 

 nearly 1 mm. in length. Staminodia barely 1 mm. long. Ovary 

 ' 5 mm. Style nearly 1 mm. long. 



Allied to the last. It differs from T. longij^es Stapf, inter alia, 

 in the more shortly petioled shining conspicuously nerved leaves, the 

 persistent bracts, the smaller flowers on shorter pedicels and the 

 diverse stamens. 



Tylostemon (§ Ennearrhena) foliosus S. Moore sp. no-\'. 

 Frutex ramis subteretibus glabris cortice badio obcluctis ; foliis 

 mediocribus breviter petiolatis ellipticis utrinque obtusis coriaceis 

 glabris ; paniculis terminalibus nisi ex axillis summis oriundis 

 quam folia multoties brevioribus e ramulis paucis patentibus 

 sistentibus subtiliter fulvo-pubescentibus ; bracteis satis perspicuis 

 ovate - cymbiformibus acutis dorse minute fulvo-tomentosis ; 

 pedicellis flores plerumque aequantibus vel excedentibus ; peri- 

 anthii turbinati extus minute pubescentis intus fere glabri lobis 

 quam tubus brevioribus suborbicularibus margine cilielatis ; 

 staminum serr. 1 & 2 filamentis brevibus quam antherae sub- 

 orbiculares deorsum necnen dorse villesae angustioribus ; stamiiium 

 ser. 3 filamentis latis villosis antheras conoideas glabras circa 

 aequantibus biglandulosis ; staminodiis triangularibus acutis 

 villosis ; ovario subglobese glabre quam stylus glaber crassus 

 apicem versus attenuatus paullulum breviore. 



Oban ; n. 2342. 



A bushy s7<?'?/&. Leaves 12-18 x 3-4 cm., drying olive -green above 

 and brown below ; lateral nerves 7-8 pairs, dividing and inarching at 

 some little distance from the midrib, together with the reticulum 

 prominent on both sides of the leaf ; petioles about 1 cm. long, stout, 

 channelled above, drying black. Panicles 1-3 cm. long, from less 

 than 1 cm. to nearly 4 cm. across, the latter measurement referring 

 to the terminal inflorescence. Bracts 3-4 mm. long. Pedicels often 

 3-4 mm. in length, those of flowers at the top of the branchlets often 

 reduced to 1 mm. Floivcrs 2 mm. long, and the same in diameter; 

 tube 1" 25 mm., lobes '75 mm. long. Stamens of whorls I. and II. 

 not quite 1 mm. long, of the third whorl 1 mm. ; glands of the latter 

 small, about '2 mm. in diameter. Staminodcs '8 mm. long. Ovary 

 about • 75 in diameter. Style 1 mm. long. 



In foliage this is very like T. obscurus Stapf, but that has 

 markedly smaller flowers, besides belonging to the § Hexarrhena, 

 Its position in the genus seems to be next T. cinnamomeus Stapf. 



