F. N. WILLIAMS. FLORULA GAMBIGA. 199 



which prevails in Senegal as in Abyssinia, has fasciculale leaves, which 

 only become scattered and really allernale al Ihe exlremities of Ihe young 

 branches: this is weil figured in Peslalozzi's nionograph of the genus, 

 in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1898, app. UI, t. 2, flg. 2, and t. 9, fig. 1, a, b. In 

 FÏA. I. 92, Oliver reduces B. jnibens lo this species, but the plant really 

 belongs to B. salicifolia Oliver. 



131. Maerua Angolensis Cand. — Trees 50 feet highorsoat 

 Ballanghar, in Upper Baddibu district, on dry, sandy, and rocky (volcanic) 

 soil (Lester, n. 70 N). 



Ser. E. PHALANGIATiE 



Ord. Parietales 

 Farn. 28. DILLENIACEJE 



132. Tetracera Senegalensis Cand. — FS T. 2; Albreda (Per- 

 rottet). Kommbo country (Heudelot, n. 63). In F TA. reduced by Oliver lo 

 T. alnifolia, which, however, would make the species too broad. The 

 Senegal plant is, however, identical with T.obovata, — which isdescribed 

 by De Gandolle first on the same page, and would, therefore, accoiding 

 lo the usage of certain Neo-American authorities, having priority in place, 

 have priority in fact. The différences alleged in the leaves of the two 

 species do not really exist, as such slight diversity in the form of the 

 leaves is found not only on those of the same tree but even on the same 

 branches. 



var. Gambica Williams. — Folia oblonga acuta texturâ multum tenuiora 

 (Whitfield, in Herb. Mus. Brit.). 



Fam. 29. OCHNACE^ 



133. Ochna multiflora Cand. — FTA. I. 319 (Perrottet, in Herb. 

 Kew. ex herb. Delessert, as « 0. dubia »). 



134. Ouratea reticulata Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XYH. 79 (1893). — 

 St. Mary's Island ; near Bathurst, by the side of a stream, 158 mètres above 

 sea-level (H. H. Johnsion, n. 92, in Herb. Kew., 21. Febr. 1883). This is 

 the greatest élévation in Gambia from which I have seen a spécimen of 

 any plant in this List. Not recorded from Gambia by Gilg in bis Revision 

 of the genus in Engl. Jahrb. XXXIII. 267 (1903). FTA. I. 321 (« Gomphia 

 reticulata »). 



135. Lophira alata Banks. — Abundant in both moist and dry 

 woods along Ihe river; FST. 109, t. 24 (Perrotlel). Further east known 

 at the Lawa tree. The Mandingo women of the Gambia wear thefruit-calyx, 

 as an ornament or amulet, hanging down between their breasls. 



