(7) T. A. SPRAGUE. PLANTARUM NOVARUM. HG^i 



Fructus obovoideo-globosus, 5 cm. longus, 4,5 cm. diamelro transverso 

 (exsiccando cpntractus, 5-lobatus), apice leviter depressus, obtuse cuspi- 

 datus, cuspide 2-3 mm. longo, pericarpio carnoso. fere 1 cm. crasso. — 

 Oncoba glauca, Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 1. 117, partim (quoad stirpem Barle- 

 rianum), non Planen. 



Si erra-- Leone : Garrett, 14; in woods of small Valleys, Buyabuya, 

 Scarcies, Scott Elliot, 4764. 



Gold Coast : Kibbi. Axim. W. II. Johnson, 520; Kofrodua, 

 W. H. Johnson, 907. 



Togo : War necke, 84. 



Lagos : B&rl&r, 20136; Moloney, 17; Ido Island, Milien, 46. 



D r Ernst Gilg was the firsl to recognize the preceding species as 

 distinct, (in Warnecke's Togo exsiccatse), and I have therefore much 

 pleasure in naming it in his honour. Oliver in the Flora of Tropical 

 Africa quoted Barter's Lagos plant under Oncoba glauca, and his descrip- 

 tion ofthat species is vitiated by the inclusion in it of characters belon- 

 ging to 0. Gilgiana. It seems désirable, therefore. lo add a short descrip- 

 tion of 0. glauca here. 



Pierre, in Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. n. s. I, 118 has described, under the 

 name Oncoba Klainei, a tree from the Gaboon district, which seems to 

 differ in no respect from 0. glauca. He distinguishes it as follows : — 

 « II y a un Oncoba assez voisin de V.O. glauca que je distingue de cette 

 espèce par des feuilles oblongues, atténuées ou cunéiformes, par ses 

 stipules subulées, par des grappes axillaires très courtes quant au 

 pédoncule commun, mais à Heurs longuement pédicellées, enfin par son 

 fruit lisse ovoïde privé de la pointe caractéristique et terminale de 

 YO. glauca. » — Ail the characters mentioned, wilh the possible excep- 

 tion of the shape of the fruit, are points of agreement with 0. glauca, 

 not of distinction from il. No stress can be laid on whether the fruits are 

 lobed or entire, as that dépends on how they have been preserved. The 

 fruits of Oncoba Gilgiana (Barter, 20136), preserved in spirit at Kew, are 

 entire; the dried fruits of the same number of Barter's collecting are 

 deeply fîve-lobed. The fruits of 0. glauca in the Kew Herbarium are 

 ovoid or ovoid-globose with a very short terminal acumen. The spécimen 

 of 0. Klainei in the Kew Herbarium, Klaine n os 109/221. communicated 

 by M. Pierre, agrées in ail respects, as far as the material goes, with 

 0. glauca, but unforlunately it has no fruits. Pierre's Latin description 

 fîts 0. glauca well, with the exception of the words « capsula... stigma- 

 tibus sessilibus coronata », but the sentence quoted is obviously a lapsus 



