Zwei neue Meliaceengattungen aus dem tropischen Afrika. 
Von 
Hermann Harms. 
Pseudoeedrela Harms nov. gen. Sepala 4—5, basi cohaerentia, ovata 
vel oblongo-ovata, apice subacuta. Petala 4—5, libera, oblongo-spathulata, 
breviter unguiculata, apice rotundata, in alabastro contorta, calycem 4-plo 
vel plus 4-plo excedentia. Tubus stamineus urceolatus quam petala subduplo 
brevior, margine tantum vel usque ad medium fere in lacinias latas 10 fissus, 
laciniae apice 2-dentatae; antherae 10, ovales, obtusae, inter dentes iis 
plerumque breviores insertae, filamentello brevissimo dorso paullo supra 
basin insidentes. Discus carnosus, cupularis, basin ovarii cingens. Ovarium 
minutum, sub-semiglobosum, 5-loculare; ovula in loculis compluria, bise- 
riatim pendula; stylus cylindricus, brevis, stigmate perlato disciformi coro- 
natus. Capsula oblonga tripollicaris, ad basin fere septicide 5-valvis, valvae 
lineari-ellipticae, lignosae, extus lenticellis punctulatae, intus sublaeves, 
post dehiscentiam reti fibroso valido, demum a columella anguste 5-alata 
vel 5-gona ruptim soluto conjunctae; semina in loculis 5, pendula, 4 seria- 
tim(?) columellae dense imbricatim adnata, apice circa umbilicum in medio 
situm radiatim plicatula, compressa, deorsum in alam aequilatam oblongo- 
linearem, nucleum 4-plo superantem, obtusam producta; albumen subnullum, 
cotyledones late obovatae, compressiuseulae, radicula supera umbilico 
proxima, cotyledonibus 5—6-plo brevior. — Arbor ingens (80-pedalis ex 
Schweinfurth), trunco columnari, cortice rimoso, aterrimo. Folia ad ramu- 
lorum apices fascieulata (cicatricibus semiorbicularibus), griseo-pallido- 
viridia, subeoncoloria, pinnata; foliola utrinque 3—9, exacte fere alterna, 
brevissime molliterque pubescentia, juventute dense tomentosa, demum 
sparsius pilosa, brevissime petiolulata, horizontaliter fere patentia, oblonga 
vel oblongo-linearia, obtusiuscula, valde inaequilateralia, subfalcata, basi 
latere antico subtruncata, postico in petiolulum desinentia, apicem versus 
angustata, grosse et irregulariter sinuato- vel repando-dentata (dentibus 
obtusis), penninervia (costis utrinque 6—412), rhachi tereti, basin versus 
glabrata, petiolo brevi basi abrupte incrassato. Paniculae axillares multi- 
