Cordicc] lxxxix. boragine^e (baker and wright). 13 



Var. pHosa, C. H. Wright. Ultimate branches of the inflorescence clothed with 

 spreading brown hairs. 



Upper Guinea. Lagos, Millen, 210 ! 



15. C. liebrechtsiana, Be Wild. & Durand in Comptes-rendus 

 Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxviii. 38. A tree ; branchlets pilose. Leaves 

 alternate, ovate-rotundate, obtuse or shortly acute, rounded or more or 

 less acute at the base or subcordate, 1|— 8 in. long, l-|-6 in. long, 

 entire, undulate, glabrous above, pilose beneath ; nerves prominent 

 beneath ; petiole f-6 in. long. Cymes axillary, very long, irregularly 

 much branched, many-flowered, 9-18 in. long; flowers subsessile. 

 Calyx obscurely longitudinally ribbed, velvety outside, glabrous inside, 

 4 lin. long, 2 lin. in diam. ; teeth 2-5, more or less acute. Corolla 

 tubular-campanulate, 14 lin. long, pale yellow ; lobes 5, undulate. 

 Stamens 5, included ; anthers dark brown. Ovary globose ; style 

 short. Fruit unknown. — Reliq. Dewevr. 163. 



South Central. Congo Free State : without precise locality, Deivevre. 

 Judging from the description, this must be extremely close to G. Irvingii, Baker. 



16. C. Johnsoni, Baker. A small shrub; branchlets densely 

 hairy. Leaves very shortly petioled, orbicular, 1^—2 in. long and 

 broad, obtuse, entire, broadly rounded at the base, subcoriaceous, 

 slightly hairy on the upper surface, densely hairy all over beneath ; 

 lateral nerves 3—4 on each side. Cymes dense, compound, many- 

 flowered, long-peduncled ; flowers polygamous ; branches very pilose ; 

 pedicels very short. Calyx turbinate, 4 lin. long, densely and 

 adpressedly pubescent on both surfaces, not ribbed ; lobes small, ovate, 

 scarious, with strong intramarginal nerves. Corolla pale-yellow ; tube 

 funnel-shaped, 3^ lin. long ; lobes 4-5, oblong, obtuse, 2 lin. long. 

 Stamens inserted just above the middle of the corolla-tube ; filaments 

 densely pilose just above their insertion. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Afram Plains, Johnson, 705! 

 Very closely allied to C. Irvingii, Baker, of which it may he a young or stunted 

 state. 



17. C. Warneckei, Gierke MSS. A shrub ; branches pubescent. 

 Leaves obovate, 1| in. long, obtuse, entire, subcuneate at the base, 

 subcoriaceous, scabrid on the upper surface, pubescent all over beneath; 

 petiole 4 lin. long. Flowers in dense terminal cymes, with pubescent 

 branches ; pedicels very short. Calyx turbinate, pubescent on both 

 surfaces, not ribbed, 4 lin. long ; lobes small, ovate, acuminate, with a 

 strong intramarginal nerve. Corolla-tube narrowly funnel-shaped or 

 almost cylindrical, 5 lin. long; lobes 5, oblong, 1| lin. long, obtuse. 

 Stamens inserted a short distance down the corolla-tube, rather shorter 

 than the corolla-lobes, densely pilose in the lower part Ovary rudi- 

 mentary, globose. 



Upper Guinea. Togo, Wamecke, 100 ! near Lome, Warnecke, 308 ! 

 This may prove to be only a variety of C. Johnsoni, Baker. 



