\8 in. anona.ce* (oliver). [Anona 



slightly reflexed from the thickened or obtusely-keeled centre ; base narrower 

 concave, erect or slightly spreading. Stamens indefinite ; anthers linear 

 oblong, extrorse, subsessile ; connective produced into a short very obtuse 

 tip, scarcely dilated. Torus convex. Carpels free, indefinite, closely packed 

 ovary pilose ; stigma shorter than the ovary, linear-oblong, sulcate on the 

 inner face, pilose ; ovules solitary, erect. Fruit not seen. 



A tree, with rather large membranous leaves, and solitary, shortly peduncled extra-axillarj 

 flowers. 



I have based this new genus upon the single species described below, which differs from al 

 known Anonacea in the total suppression of the outer petals. Excepting iu this particula 

 (and the free ovaries) the flowers resemble those of an Anona, in which genus, however, th 

 tendency is to suppression of the inner series of petals. Technically it is allied to the Pha 

 anthece. 



1. E. chlorantha, Oliv. I.e. Ultimate branchlets slender, pubescent 

 Leaves membranous, obovate- or oblanceolate-oblong, shortly acuminate 

 cuneate or scarcely rounded at the base, glabrous excepting the puberulou 

 midrib above and petioles, 5-10 in. long, 2-3^ in. broad ; petiole 1^-8 lines 

 Flowers solitary, extra-axillary, on peduncles of about half an inch, with 1 or i 

 lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate sepal-like bracts above the middle, appressed 

 pilose externally. Sepals lanceolate, subacute, 6-8 lines long, strigose-pilosi 

 outside, dark and glabrate within, spreading or reflexed. Inner petals 1-1 \ 

 in. long, 6-8 lines broad, rather obtuse, with closely appressed minute hair 

 externally. 



Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Thomson ! 



3. PIPTOSTIGMA, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 158. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 3, ovate or lanceolate, acute, free. Petal 

 6, free, in two series, valvate in aestivation ; outer petals sepaloid, but slightl 

 exceeding the sepals ; inner petals much longer than the outer, rather tint 

 plane or the margins reflexed ; the base concave, surrounding the genitali; 

 Stamens indefinite, closely imbricate upon a hemispherical torus ; anther 

 sessile, cuneate-oblong, extrorse, the connective truncate, transversely rhoin 

 boidal. Carpels 4-6, united at the apex in a sessde, depressed-globose, ob 

 scurely-lobed, pilose, deciduous stigma ; ovules 6-10, in 1 or 2 series upo 

 the ventral suture. Fruit not seen (said to consist in one species of unite 

 carpela). 



Trees, with subsessile leaves, with numerous secondary nerves and obscure transversel 

 parallel venation, and simple or panicled cymose racemes, from wood of a previous year. 



The two following species are all that are known of this genus, which is confined to We 

 Tropical Africa. 



Leaves sparsely pilose beneath, abruptly cuspidate. Racemes elongate, 

 simple or forked. Bracts linear-lanceolate. Outer petals linear- 

 lanceolate or lanceolate .... i p ■/ 



Leaves glabrous or glabrate, shortly acuminate. Panicles dichotomous. 



Bracts ovate, acute. Outer petals ovate or ovate-lanceolate . . . 2. P. glabrescem 



1. P. pilosum, Oliv. I. c. Extremities softly tomentose with ferru°- 

 nous hairs. Leaves membranous, subsessile, obovate-oblong, shortly apiel 

 late, rounded at the base, glabrous above, more or less pilose beneath espt 



