ADDENDA 



5ft. Prevostea insignis, Rendle. A shrub ; leafy branchlets 

 terete, bearing a brown pubescence. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-obovate, 

 apex acuminate, subcoriaceous, glabrous, the midrib and G to 8 

 ascending secondary nerves conspicuous on the lower surface, up to 

 about 6 in. long by 2J in. broad ; petiole densely brown-pubescent, 

 about h in. long. Inflorescence terminal, about 2 in. long in the fruit ; 

 peduncle densely brown-pubescent ; fruits usually geminate in the 

 axils of small densely pubescent foliaceous bracts : pedicel ^ in. or more 

 long, bearing just below the middle a pair of membranous, narrowly 

 obovate, glabrous bracteoles, about ^ in. long. Flowers absent ; the 

 two outer persistent membranous veined sepals suborbicular with 

 rounded apex and reniform base, the outer larger reaching in the 

 specimen 2J in. by 2J in. Fruit unripe, one-celled, one-seeded, 

 apparently indehiscent. 



Upper Guinea. Liberia : Kakatown, Whyte ! 



Distinguished from the other species by its terminal inflorescence. 



6ft. S. togoense, Dammer in Schlechter, West-Afr. Kautschuk-Exped. 

 312, name only. A climbing shrub. Stem slender, twining, glabrous ; 

 young branches pilose. Leaves thin, broadly lanceolate, slightly undulate, 

 decurrent on the petiole, about 2J in. long, 1|- in. broad ; petiole \- f- in. 

 long. Cymes lateral, small, subumbellate ; peduncle pilose ; pedicels 

 glabrous, slender, thickened towards the apex. Calyx cup-shapecl, 

 5-toothed, \\ lin. in diam. ; teeth broad, acute, less than a line long. 

 Corolla 5-fid ; lobes recurved, linear-lanceolate, puberulous outside, \ in. 

 long, 1 lin. wide. Stamens 5 ; filaments very short, free ; anthers con- 

 glutinate, 2 lin. long, pores terminal. Ovary conical, scarcely \ lin. 

 long; style \ in. long ; stigma flat. — Engl. Jahrb. xxxviii. 59. 



Upper Guinea. Togo : amongst climbing shrubs near Badja, Schlechter, 

 1297-4. 



Allied to S. hifurcum, Hochst. 



8ft. S. darassumense, Dammer in Engl. Jahrb. xxxviii. 57. An 

 unarmed shrub about 8 ft. high. Branches slender, elongate, terete, 

 furnished when young with very minute early deciduous hairs. Leaves 

 ovate, \-^ in. long, J-^ in. wide, hairy when young like the branches ; 

 petiole slightly shorter than the blade. Flowers solitary ; pedicels 

 slender, about ^ in. long, filiform, very minutely stellate-pilose. Calyx 

 4-partite ; lobes long triangular, acute, 1J lin. long, very minutely 



