Catalogue of the plants collected by Mr. & Mrs. P.A. Talbot in the Oban district, South Nigeria / by A.B. Rendle [and others].

  • Alfred Barton Rendle
Date:
1913
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Credit: Catalogue of the plants collected by Mr. & Mrs. P.A. Talbot in the Oban district, South Nigeria / by A.B. Rendle [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    34 cm. long, 20 cm. broad, with petiole about 1'5 cm. long; lateral veins 12-15 pairs. Stipules 4'3 cm. long, 2'5 cm. broad. Corolla- tube 1‘8 cm. long; lobes about the same length and up to 5 mm. wide. Anthers 8-9 mm. long. Distinct from the preceding species in the broader leaves and stipules, the broader and more fleshy corolla-lobes, etc. Triealysia pleioraera Hutchinson sp. nov. Species foliis magnis, corollae lobis numerosis mox reflexis, antheris villosis valde distincta. Hamuli subteretes, glabri. Folia oblonga, breviter subacute acuminata, basi rotundata, 20-23 cm. longa, 7 • 5-8 • 5 cm. lata, tenuiter cbartacea, utrinque glabra, nitidula, nervis lateralibus utrinque 9-10 arcuatim ascendentibus conspicuis infra promi- nentibus, nervis tertiariis laxis subparallelis distinctis e costa sub angulo recto ortis; petioli 1 cm. longi, plano-convexi, glabri; stipulae intrapetiolares, connatae, truncatae, 2 • 5-3 mm. longae, intra appresse pubescentes, ciliatae. Cymae axillares, subsessiles, 10-15-florae, circiter 3'5 cm. diametro; bracteae stipulis similes; pedicelli ad 5 mm. longi, glabri; bracteolae connatae, calycis basin circumdantes, breviter acuminatae, extra puberulae. Calyx tubulosus, 4 mm. longus, minute denticulatus, extra appresse pubescens, intra pilis brevibus nigris setulosus. Corollae tubus cylindricus, 1 cm. longus, extra costatus, glaber, intra aracbnoideo-pubescens, 11-12-lobatus, lobis mox reflexis oblanceolato-obovatis vel subspatbulatis breviter acute acuminatis circiter 8 mm. longis et 3 mm. latis extra pubescentibus intra versus apicem puberulis. Stamina 11-12; fllamenta corollae fauci inserta, erecta, 5 mm. longa, glabra; antberae erectae, 5 mm. longae, villosae. Ovarium 3-loculare, loculis circiter 4-ovulatis; stylus exsertus, 1 ■ 5 cm. longus, basin versus glaber, superne pubescens, bilobus, lobis 2 • 5 mm. longis obtusis. Oban; n. 1277 (Herb. Kew.). [J. H.] Cremaspora glabra Wernham sp. nov. Frutex nisi foliorum basis saepe puberulus glabratus, ramulis gracilibus rectis horizontal- iter divaricatis; foliis lanceolatis vel ellipticis vel oblongis utrinque angustatis basi nonnunquam subrotundatis acuminatis apice obtuso, breviter petiolatis, venis secundariis infra conspicuis, paucis distantibus ; stipulis deciduis brevissimis latis apiculatis; florihus glaberrimis in cymis sessilibus axillaribus paucifloris fasciculatis; calycis utrinque glabri lobis rotundatis; corollae tubo brevi quam lobi oblongo-lanceolati obtusi nudto minoribus ; stylo glabro bilobato. Oban; n. 1536. Leaves varying from an average of about 75 cm. x 2'5 cm. to an oblong shape 9 ■ 5 cm. X 4'5cm.; secondary veins 3-4 pairs; petiole to 5 mm. Stipules about 1 mm. long. CaZ2/a;-segments, 2 cm. x 2 mm.