24 in. anonace^e (olivek). [Uvaria. 



rib of leaves above minutely puberulous. Leaves (bronze-brown when dry) 

 ovate-oblong to elliptic-oblong, obtusely acuminate, more or less rounded 

 at base; margin subcrispate-undulate ; midrib prominent beneath; reticu- 

 lation obscure, 4|-5| in. long, lf-2i in. broad ; petiole l£-2 lines. Flower? 

 Fruit on a short, stout, lateral peduncle, | in. long ; carpels 1£ in. long, 

 £-£ in. diam., closely rusty-tomentose, transversely cristate, obtuse, on stipes 

 \ in. long. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Purdie ! 



A specimen in flower, from Cape Coast, in the British Museum herbarium may belong to 

 the same species. The calyx is 3-fid, with rotundate lobes. 



5. CLEISTOCHLAMYS, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 175. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx closed in bud (sepals connate), splitting 

 across the apex into 2 or 3 unequal or equal valves. Petals 6 (seen only 

 in unexpanded flowers) ; 3 outer ovate, valvate in aestivation, 3 inner rather 

 smaller, imbricate in aestivation. Stamens indefinite (about 30); anthers sessile 

 or subsessile, cuneate-quadrate, extrorse ; the connective slightly dilated and 

 truncate beyond the cells. Torus slightly convex. Carpels free, 6-8 ; ovary 

 glabrous or nearly so, narrowed above into a short linear-oblong recurved 

 stigma ; ovules solitary, erect. Fruit-carpels oblong, obtuse, stipitate. 



A glabrous shrub. Leaves rather narrow obovate-oblong or oblong, penninerved. Flowers 

 very small, axillary, sessile. 



This plant was placed, with doubt, in the genus Popoioia, by Mr. Bentham (Linn. Trans, 

 xxiii. 470), who, however, had not seen flowering specimens. These have been since sup- 

 plied by Dr. Kirk. The salient characters of the genus are, the connate sepals forming » 

 calyx, at first closed ; the imbricate inner petals, which, with the truncate stameus, place it 

 in the tribe Uvariea, and the very small, usually solitary, axillary flowers. 



1. C. Kirkii, Oliv. I. c. Much branched and entirely glabrous. Leaves 

 firmly membranous or rather coriaceous, oblanceolate-oblong or oblong, ob- 

 tuse rounded or rather acute at the apex ; base obtuse ; lateral veins nume- 

 rous, anastomosing; size very various, usually from l|-4 in. long, £-1? * 

 broad ; petiole 1-2 lines. Flowers very small (only seen in bud, about 1-1 T 

 lines diam.), with a few minute, imbricate, rotundate, scaly bracts. Calyx 

 glabrous, smooth, thinly coriaceous. Fruit-carpels black, edible when ripe, 

 oblong, very obtuse or mucronulate, glabrous, 6-8 lines long, 3-4 lines diam-, 

 on stipes of 2-3 lines, 1-seeded.— Popowia ? Kirkii, Benth. in Linn. Trans, 

 xxiii. 470. 



Mozamb. Distr. Foot of Moramballa ; near Tette ; near Senna, Zambesia, Dr. Kirk- 



6. CLATHROSPERMUM, Planch.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL I ^ 



Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual. Sepals 3, minute, ovate or rotun- 

 date. Petals 6, in two series, valvate in aestivation, concave, thick ; inn* 

 rather smaller or very minute. Stamens 10 or fewer ; anthers subsessile or 

 on short thick filaments, extrorse with parallel cells, obtuse, the connective 

 not produced above, but in one species much produced behind the cells- 

 Carpels 6-8 in the £ , indefinite in the ? , free ; ovary pilose ; stigma linear, 



