Telraeera.] n. dilleniace^e (oliver). 13 



3 j in. broad. Petiole 4-10 lines, often slightly winged, glabrous or ciliate. 

 Panicles glabrous or with loose or appressed deciduous hairs. Flowers 4-8 

 lines diara. Sepals glabrous thinly hairy or puberulous outside, glabrous 

 usually within. Carpels glabrous or nearlv so. — T. senega! ensis, DC. Syst. 

 Veg. i. 401. T. obovata, DC. 1. c. T. scabra, Hook. f. Fl. Nigrit. 203. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Whitfield! Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! and others; 

 Brass, and near the Nun river, T. Vogel! Barter! Mouth of Niger aud Fernando Po, 

 Mann! etc. 



Lower Guinea. Golongo Alto, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



Var. Leaves narrowed into the petiole (71 rvgosa, G. et P. Fl. Seneg. 321). Senegal, 

 lerrottet ! 



. ^ugh the courtesy of Dr. Garcke, I have had the opportunity of examining the ori- 

 ginal specimens of this plant in Willdeuow's herbarium. 



3. T. Boiviniana, Baill. in Adans. vii. 300. t. 7. An erect or ascending 

 shrub of 2-3 ft. Leafy branches sparsely pilose, glabrescent below. Leaves 

 obovate-lanceolate or -oblong; apex rounded, obtusely pointed or acute, nar- 

 rowed at the base, denticulate or serrate, rugose, rather scabrous and with 

 snort scattered hairs above, tomentose beneath, with prominent lateral 

 nerves, 3-5 in. long, 11-2 in. broad. Petiole 4-8 lines. Peduncles and 

 short pedicels pilose-tomentose. Flowers in few-flowered terminal cymes, 

 V. 15 lm es diara. Sepals slightly pilose within. Anthers ovate or ovate- 

 oblong ; cells nearly parallel or slightly divergent below. Carpels 3-4, gla- 

 brous, or densely hairy and jrlabrescent when ripe and about twice as long as 

 the sepals. 6 



Var. Carpels glabrous. 



tower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



*"■ Carpels densely hirsute. 

 0%amb - Dwtr. Rovuma river, Drs. Kirk and Meller ! Zanzibar, Dr. Kirk ! Boivtn. 



Order III, ANONACEiE (by Prof. Oliver). 



rarel?? 3 ' distiuct or more or less connate. Petals 6, in two series, or 

 vate ' °! 16 Series bein « suppressed, free or shortly connate at the base, val- 

 in c/ 0r /7 lrabncate in aestivation. Stamens indefinite, numerous (10 or fewer 

 Plane , S ^ m " M ) 1 f ree, usually closely imbricate upon a convex or rarely 

 rate tb US ; filaments short or 0. Anthers adnate, linear, cuneate or quad- 

 cells' P- C ? nnectiy e usually produced, or truncate and dilated above the 

 celled ° f 8everal or numerous free carpels, or syncarpous with a one- 



th e flA Vary { Mono <lora), or the ovaries cohering or separately imbedded in 

 linear ^i™ 9 { - Anom )- Stigmas capitate, sessile, or styles ovate oblong 

 inner f Sublllate > usually sulcate and stigmatose at the apex or along the 

 suturp ■ ° Vllles l > 2 > or more, basal and erect, or attached to the ventral 

 distinct i° ne ° r two series ( in Monodora, parietal, indefinite). Fruit-carpels 

 paratel • ° r several -seeded, sessile or stipitate, usually indehiscent, or se- 

 (/ , *»/nw- lmn l ersed in « P U| PV or coriaceous fruit (Anona), or simply cohering 

 coria OP .^ a )' or unitef l into a globose or ovoid, many-seeded, woody or 

 with T 18 -T nh Wonodora). Seeds with a copious ruminated albumen, 

 shrub, Wlthout an ar ilms. Embryo minute, near the hilum.- frees or 

 ' SOr netime8 climbing or scrambling. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, 



