10 LXXXIX. BORAGINE^E (BAKER AND WRIGHT). [Cordia. 



anthers brown, about 1 lin. long. Style green; stigmas 4, exserted. 

 Fruit ovoid, 7 lin. long, 4 lin. in diam., much longer than the persistent 

 calyx. — Reliq. Dewevr. 162. 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Old Kasongo, Dewevre. 



6. C. aurantiaca, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 26. A tree 

 15-25 ft. high; branchlets brown velvety pubescent when young. 

 Leaves oblong, acuminate, rounded at the base, 6 in. long, 2 in. broad, 

 pilose on the chief nerves on both surfaces, more rarely glabrous ; 

 petiole 6 lin. long, pilose especially on the upper side. Cymes terminal, 

 rather dense ; branches and calyx densely brown velvety pubescent ; 

 flowers subsessile, 5-7-merous. Calyx G lin. long, tubular ; teeth short, 

 broad. Corolla-tube 6 lin. long, cylindrical ; lobes obovate, long 

 mucronate, much undulate, half as long as the tube. Stamens inserted 

 about halfway up the corolla-tube ; filaments hairy at or just above the 

 base. Style 4 lin. long; stigmas peltate. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. 715 ; GUrke in Notizbl. Konigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 53, in obs. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Barter ! Mann, 4 ! Cameroons : Bipinde, 

 Zenker, 931 ! 1355 ! 2115 ! Yaunde, ZenJcer, 757 ! 1431 ! Zenker Sr Stauclt, 406 ! 



Lower Guinea. Loando : Chinchocho, Soyaux, 53 : Gaboon : Munda : 

 Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 132 ! Lower Congo : Smith! Angola: Golungo Alto; in 

 forests and on the hanks of streams near Sange, Baiigo, Menha-Lula, Luinha River, 

 &c, Welwitsch, 5430 ! 5466 ! 



In the original description the corolla-lobes are erroneously stated to be 

 orbicular. 



7. C. Dusenii, Gurke in Notizbl. Konigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 58. 

 A tree ; branchlets glabrous. Leaves ovate or oblong, 6-7 in. long by 

 half as broad, entire, obtuse at the base, long acuminate or mucronate 

 at the apex, membranous, glabrous on both surfaces ; petiole 5-9 lin. 

 long. Panicles from the axils of the upper leaves, few-flowered, lax ; 

 pedicels long. Calyx campanulate, 6 lin. long, fusco-tomentose, 

 10-sulcate ; teeth 5, deltoid, 2 lin. long, long acuminate. Corolla 9-10 

 lin. long ; lobes spathulate, very long mucronate. Stamens 9 lin. long ; 

 filaments pilose at the base. Fruit ovoid-conical, glabrous. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : between Victoria and Bimbia, Preuss, 1256 ; 

 and without precise locality, Dusen, 359a. 



8. C. Fischeri, Gurke in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. G. 335. A tree or shrub ; 

 branchlets pubescent. Leaves broadly oblong, 3-4 in. long, 2\ in. broad, 

 obtuse, entire, coriaceous, scabrid above, densely pubescent beneath ; 

 petiole 4-15 lin. long Cymes terminal, few-flowered, sessile or shortly 

 peduncled. Calyx between turbinate and cylindrical, 4 lin. long, sub- 

 tomentose, with 10 obscure ribs; teeth 4-5, deltoid. Corolla half as 

 long again as the calyx. Stamens slightly exserted. Ovary glabrous. 

 — Gurke in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 307. 



IVXozamb. J>ist. German East Africa: Masai Highlands, Fischer, 437. 



9. C. subcordata, Lam. III. i. 421. A middle-sized tree; young 

 branchlets glabrous or slightly pubescent. Leaves crowded at the tip 



