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130. Angrecum  Smithii, Rolfe; aphyllüm, radicibus  fasciculatis 
gracilibus subteretibus subflexuosis osis pallide viridibus, caule brevissimo, 
racemis gracilibus brevibus 8-12-floris, braeteis lanéeolato-oblongis 
rvis, sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis acutis suberectis, 
labello liueari-lanceolato acuto suberecto, calcare recurvo-patenti conico, 
columna brevissima, pollinarii stipite simplice. 
Has.—Mt. Kilimanjaro. 
Radices 4-6 lin. longe. Racemi 1 poll. longi. BibHob 1 lin. longer. 
Pedicelli } lin. longi. Sepala et grito llin.longa. Labellum | Hn. 
longum ; calear vix 1 lin. lo ongum 
A minute leafless species sent to Kew by Consul C. S. Smith, of the 
Kilimanjaro UL Commission. It flowered early in 1894, bum 
again during the present year. It was found te on the 
branch with Minim bilobum, var. !Kirkit: It is like a vitatis 
edition of .4. guyonianum, Rchb., £, but differs in Miti roots only 
half as thick, racemes several times shorter, and distinctly smaller flowers. 
As the latter species has recently been referred to Mystacidium it 
seems advisable to point out that, like the present one, it has only a single 
stipes tothe Wer wi certainly does not belong tothat genus, It 
has also been transferr E which, however, has only the 
leafless habit to 255 dieit, and even that is mE for leaves 
re sometimes developed, though they ES away early. It has seven 
published synonyms Sage iie globulosum and M. Smee 
and unz, are not only synonymous but originally b 
on hh same number), and as at least half of them have arisen rod 
pure misconception jt seems desirable to append these remarks, otherwise 
the present species might also be transferred to Mystacidium. 
CCCCXLIII.—IBOGA ROOT. 
(Tabernanthe Iboga, Baill.) 
With plate. 
The san FA a plant known as Iboga in the Gaboon and Bocca on 
ue Congo, s tonic properties, and in large doses are said to stimu- 
te the ere re Up to quite recently the only inf 0 
ontained in the Catalogu ip Produits des Colonies 
aris Exhibition, 1867, p. 108. Specimens were 
exhibited ith the Towing note by M. Griffon du Bellay : “ Gabon, 
Tabernemontana (Sp. ?). Iboga des gabonnais. Les E 
toniques, à haute dose, sont un excitant du systéme nerveu A 
note based a this is also to be found in Moloney’s Forestry of West 
Africa, p. 3 
M some specimens of the roots and twigs were communicated to 
ew by Dr. Hugo Müller, F.R.S. who stated “the roots called Bocca 
are used and much valued on the lower Congo as a e" 
The plant according to Baillon, who first identified it, is known at 
a z as Iboga, but it has other uu names. It is the Aboua 
of the penne and Obouété of the Gabo 
Recently a figure and description were rgüblished 4 in Zooker's Icones 
Pantari [4th Series], tab. 2337. It belongs to the natural order 
u 85826. B 
