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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    tubo calycem excedente a basi amplificato intus glabro lobis oblongis obtusis intus praesertim dimidio proximali pubescentibus ; staminihus faucibus affixis breviter exsertis; ovario subgloboso quam stylus longipre. Oban ; n. 1256. A copiously branching scandent shrub. Leaves + 10 x 5 cm., the largest 15 x 6^'5 cm., grey-green in the dry state, palely shining on both surfaces ; midrib somewhat prominent on the upper side, excavated down the middle ; lateral nerves and the reticulum pro- minent on both sides ; petioles + 1 cm. in length, concave on the upper side. Cymes very slender, 2-4'5 cm. long and about the seme in diameter. Bracts + 1 mm. long; pedicels mostly 1-3 mm. Calyx '5 m. long, its lobes ’4 mm. Corolla 2'5 mm. long, the tube •75 mm., the lobes 1'75 mm. Filaments '4 mm. long; anthers as long, broadly ovate. Ovary '75 mm; style '5 mm. long. Fruit unknown. The very slender open cymes, the small flowers and relatively large leaves with the two lateral nerves running parallel to the margin without any interrupting curves, are the chief characteristics of this s]pecies. SCYPHOSTRYCHNOS S. Moore, gen. nov. Calyx 5-partitus; segmenta lata, imbricata. Corolla ,bypo- cratei'imorpha; fauces squamis in tubum exsertum alte connatis coronam referentibus onustae ; lobi 5, aestivatione valvati. Stamina 5, ad basin coronae inserta, corollae lobis alternantia ; filamenta brevia ; antherae dorsifixae, 2-loculares. Discus brevis- simus, cupuliformis, ore denticulate. Ovarium 2-loculare ; stylus filiformis ; stigma capitatum ; ovula quove in loculo oo, pluriseriata. Frutex alte scandens. Folia opposita, paullo supra basin trinervia. Flores in cymas axillares pedunculatas tricLotome paniculatas plurifloras nonnunquam in cirros validos uncinatos mutatas digest!. Bracteae parvae. Seyphostpyehnos Talbotii S. Moore sp. unica. Planta glabra ramis validis teretibus cortice cinereo obductis; foliis breviter petiolatis ovatis vel ovato-oblongis apice cuspidulatis ipso obtusis basi truncato-rotundatis coriaceis supra nitidis prominenterque rethiulato-nervosis subtus nervis paucis lateralibus eminentibus exemptis subobscure reticulatis; cymis foliis raulto brevioribus pedunculis validis nitentibus insidentibus ; hracteis cymbiformibus calyci arete applicatis ; calycis segmentis rotundato-deltoideis obtusis vel obtusissimis fulvo-ciliolatis; corollae tubo calycem duplo superante lobis ovato-oblongis obtusis tubo subaequilongis ; antheris oblongis corona fere omnino inclusis; ovario ovoideo in stylum se ipsum excedentem angustato. (PI. 10.) Oban; n. 1664. Leaves very coriaceous, mostly 14-20 cm. long and 8-11’5 cm. broad, but sometimes markedly smaller, e.g., 7-9 x 5'5-7 cm., broAvn