NO. 5 NEW EAST AFRICAN PLANTS — STANDLEY 1 3 



cm. long, 2.5-6.5 cm. wide, subcordate to obtuse at the base, obtuse 

 to acuminate at the apex, sometimes abruptly acuminate, entire, 

 thin, glabrous on the upper surface or sparsely hirtellous along 

 the midvein, thinly hirsute or hirtellous beneath, the veins impressed 

 on the upper surface, prominent beneath, the secondary ones laxly 

 reticulate ; panicle terminal, up to 12 cm. broad, many-flowered, 

 dense, the branches densely short-hirsute ; calyx 5-lobed, 2 mm. 

 long, ferrugino-puberulent, the lobes ovate, acute, minutely cilio- 

 late ; corolla tube 3 mm. long, glabrous, the lobes 2-3 mm. long, 

 oval, rounded at the apex, ciliolate ; stamens exserted, inserted in 

 the corolla throat ; style long-exserted, divided one-fourth its length ; 

 fruit 5-6 mm. in diameter, 4-lobed. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 631940, collected 

 along the trail from Nyeri to Wambugu. British East Africa, 

 altitude 1,500 to 1,800 meters, October 21 to 25, 1909, by E. A. 

 Mearns (no. 1981). Nos. 1939 and 1970 from the same region 

 also represent this species. 



The proposed species is related to Ehretia abyssinica R. Br., but 

 that has nearly or quite glabrous leaves and a lax, less pubescent 

 inflorescence, as well as a larger corolla. 



ACHYROSPERMUM MEARNSII Standley, sp. nov. 



Caules subteretes, dense fulvo-pilosi ; folia petiolata, laminis 

 ovalibus vel ovali-ovatis, apice abrupte et breviter acuminatis. basi 

 abrupte ad petiolum gracilem decurrentibu^s, tenuibus, crenatis, 

 sparse pilosis, subtus punctatis ; racemi spiciformes densi ; bracteae 

 latae, apice late rotundatae et apiculatae, longe ciliatae ; calyx 

 pilosus, lobis ovatis apiculatis, tubo multo brevioribus ; corolla parva' 

 extus pilosa vel puberula. 



Stems very stout, subterete, densely fulvous-pilose or finally 

 glabrate; leaf blades oval or oval-ovate, 5-10 cm. long, 3-7 cm. 

 wide, abruptly short-acuminate at the apex, abruptly decurrent at 

 the base to a slender petiole, the lower naked part of the petiole 

 7-15 mm. long, densely pilose, the blades thin, crenate, rather 

 sparsely pilose, slightly paler beneath and finely punctate ; inflores- 

 cence terminal and on short weak lateral branches, the racemes 

 spicate, very dense, 2-6 cm. long, about 2 cm. thick ; bracts about 

 6 mm. long and 10 mm. broad, broadly rounded at the apex and 

 apiculate, long-ciliate ; pedicels about i mm. long ; calyx 6 mm. 

 long, pilose, the lobes ovate, apiculate, much shorter than the tube ; 

 corolla 8-9 mm. long, pilose or puberulent outside. 



