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subsemiteres, radicula supera, vues et s a toS semine 
oli 
pericu coriacea. Flores parvuli, n umerosi, i xillis foli- 
ymas densas congesti, breviter vel brevissime pedicellati, 
albidi p flavescentes. 
Species 2 in Africa tropica. 
Key to the species. 
Alabastra cylindrica, 14-20 mm. (7-10 lin.) longa ; ; corollae 
lobi or ngo-lineares, tu tinete longiores * folia in 
r costam 'et nervos secundarios subt tus magis 
nina’ e pubesoantia, ht greet seminis arde bos inuda... 1. africana. 
la 
4 conica, m. (3-6 lin.) longa; corollae lobi 
Corollae tubus extra glaberrimus, prope basin con- 
i iscus ovarium excedens, 5-crenulatum ; 
, glabra, foveolata ; seminis arista basi = sae .. 2, elastica. 
nf 
um 
ipsum constrictus; discus ovario eie ^dobns; olia 
in axillis inter costam et nervos secun su 
ru efoveolata; seminis ica ab ipsa basi p eru 3. latifolia, 
1. F. africana, Stapf in Proc. Linn. Soc. 1900, 2. Arbor 45-24 m. 
(15-80 ped.) alta. Truncus erectus, cylindricus; cortex extus 
cinereus, sublaevis, medio fuscus, intus albidus; ramuli teretes 
vel sub nodos compressi, exsiccando plerumque ni 
g us. 
for tudine admodum variabilia ; lamina oblonga, rarius 
ovato-oblonga, basi attenuata vel interdum rotundata, apice breviter 
et abrupte acuminata, 12-23 cm. (5-9 poll.) longa, 4-9 em. ( 34 
poll.) lata, integerrima, margine undulata et exsic eis revoluta, 
supra glaberrima, sicca plerumque fusca, infra in axillis inter 
costam et nervos secundarios plerumque pubescens, efoveolata 
nervis secundariis utrinque je (raro 11), M eins m pears or 
arcuato-connexis, tertiariis venisque inconspicuis s 4-8 
m. (2-4 lin.) longus. Cvitine breviter pedunculatae, er pem 
labrae; pedunculus 6 mm. in. ded racteae 
parvae, ovatae, acutae vel subacutae ; pedicelli ad 4 mm. (2 lin.) 
longi. res flavescentes ; alabastra subcylindrica, paululo 
curvata, 14-20 mm. (7-10 lin.) longa. Cal yx 35 mm. (1$ lin. 
longus; segmenta late ovata vel elliptica, margine minute ciliolato 
un 
excepto glabra; degens - plures cum uoque segmen 
iine Corollae tubus medio vel paulo infra constrictus, 
3—4 lin.) longus, glaber: lobi oblongo-lineares, 10-12 mm 
(5-6 Jin.) longi. Stam medio tabo vel paulo supra inserta ; 
minute pilosulae. Discus 5jlobfüs vel oo INE 9-partitus, 
ovario à brevior. Fructus folliculi fusiform acu minati, 
semi 
aliter siae PM ad 20 cm. (8 poll.) Jokipii sui 3-4 mm. a & siti 
(14-2 lin.) distantibus. Semina glabra, 12-16 mm. (6-8 lin.) 
longa ; arista 3-4 cm. (11-12 poll.) longa, basi nuda, pilis 6-7 € 
E 
Stapf in Hook. Icon. Plant. E 2696-2697, and in Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. 
190; De Wild. in Rev. Cult. Col. x. 74. Kickxia africana, 
Benth. in Hook. Icon. "Plant. t. 1276; Henriques in Bol. Soc. 
