12 lxxxix. boraginEjE (baker and wright). [Cordia. 



very unequal, broadly ovate, acute. Corolla sulphur-coloured, 4 lin. in 

 diam. ; tube cylindrical, 5 lin. long ; lobes 5, oblong, obtuse, 2 lin. long, 

 ljr lin. broad. Stamens inserted in the corolla-throat ; filaments 1^ lin. 

 long, slender, glabrous. Ovary conical, tapering into the style ; style 

 bipartite nearly to the base ; ultimate branches linear, 4 lin. long, 

 stigmatose along the upper part. Fruit ovoid-conic, mucronate, 1 in. 

 long, seated on the ash-coloured hardened cup-shaped calyx. — Hiern in 

 Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 714. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Grolungo Alto ; in forests among the mountains of 

 Sobato de Bumba, Welwitsch, 5428 ! at Undelle, Welwitsch, 5432 ! 



13. C. platythyrsa, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 27. A tree 30- 

 80 ft. high ; branchlets pubescent. Leaves ovate to suborbicular, up to 

 5 in. long and 44^ in. broad, shortly acuminate, obtuse at the base, 

 irregularly crenate or almost entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous above, 

 pubescent beneath ; lateral nerves about 5 on each side ; petiole lJ-2 in. 

 long. Cymes in a terminal ample divaricately branched panicle ; 

 branches and short pedicels densely pubescent; flowers polygamous. 

 Calyx 2 lin. long, funnel-shaped, densely pubescent outside, not sulcate; 

 lobes 3-5, oblong, obtuse. Corolla funnel-shaped ; lobes 4-5, oblong, 

 obtuse. Stamens 3-5, inserted in the corolla-throat ; filaments hairy 

 below their insertion. Fruit oblong, acute, glabrous. 6 lin. long, seated 

 on the enlarged campanulate calyx. — C. populifolia, Baker, I.e. 

 C. lrvingii, Baker, I.e. 1895, 113, partly. G. odorata, Giirke in 

 Notizbl. Kcinigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 59. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Bagru River, Mann, 875 ! Lagos : Abeokuta, 

 Irving ! Cameroons : Bipinde, ZenTcer, 1710 ! 1856 ! 2200 ! Yaunde, Zenker, 247 ! 

 Zenker $ Staudt, 340 ! 



Lower Guinea. Gaboon : Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 390! 451. 



14. C. lrvingii, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 113, partly. — A 

 fine spreading shade tree, 60 ft. high {Johnson). Blanches tomentose 

 when young. Leaves obovate or almost orbicular, up to 9 in. long by 

 6^ in. broad, cuneate or slightly cordate at the base, upper surface 

 minutely pitted, not scabrid, lower surface densely tomentose ; petiole 

 5 in. long. Cymes in a much-branched terminal panicle ; rhachis 

 covered with ash-coloured pubescence ; flowers polygamous. Male 

 flower : Calyx tubular, 3-lobed, not sulcate, woolly pubescent outside, 

 5 lin. long; lobes ovate, acuminate, with a strong intramarginal nerve. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, yellowish (Johnson) ; tube 3|- lin. long ; lobes 6, 

 oblong, obtuse, 2 lin. long, 1^ lin. broad. Stamens inserted in the 

 corolla-throat and as long as the lobes ; filaments hairy on the part 

 adnate to the tube. Rudiment of ovary ovoid, | lin. long, with an 

 apical tuft of straight hairs. Female flowers not seen. Fruit oblong, 

 obtuse, 1| in. long, 10 lin. in diam., seated on the enlarged hardened 

 cup-shaped calyx. 



Upper Guinea. Lagos : interior, Moivland ! Gold Coast : East Akim, Johnson, 

 741! Asakrakra-Kwahu, Johnson, 625 ! 



