Clathrospermum.] in. anonace^e (oliver). 25 



oblong or globose ; ovules 5 or fewer, in one series. Fruit-carpels stipitate, 

 1-3-seeded. 



Climbing shrubs, with membranous or rather coriaceous leaves ; the venation more or 

 less transversely parallel. Flowers very small, axillary, on simple forked or paniculate 

 peduncles or from the old wood. 



Notwithstanding the important differences between the two following species, I feel but 

 little hesitation in referring them to the same genus. To adopt the alternative of creating 

 » new genus for C. Mannii, with our present imperfect knowledge of the family, would be 

 premature. 



flowers hermaphrodite. Inner petals nearly equalling the outer. Anthers 

 dilated behind the cells 1. C. Vogelii. 



Flowers unisexual. Inner petals minnte. Anthers not dilated behind the 

 «dls . ■ 2. C. Mannii. 



, 1- C. Vogelii, Planch.; Benth. in Linn. Trans, xxiii. 479. A climb- 

 ing shrub, with slender branchlets, minutely rusty-sericeous at first or gla- 

 brous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, obovate- or elliptical-oblong, shortly acu- 

 minate or obtuse, glabrescent, glaucescent or reddish -glaucescent beneath, 

 3 ~6 in. long, 1-2 in. broad ; petiole 1-2 lines. Flowers very small, on 

 slender axillary pedicels, |-1 in. long, at first with a minute bracteole near 

 the middle. Sepals ovate-rotundate, slightly connate, £-£ line long. Petals 

 puberulous ; outer broadly elliptical, scarcely 2 lines broad ; base incurved ; 

 lnDer ohovate-cuneate, with a thick claw. Stamens about 9-10 ; anthers 

 extrorse, with very short parallel cells ; connective not produced above, but 

 plated behind the cells into a triangular appendage. Carpels 6-8 ; ovary 

 shortly pil ose . sty l e ij near) obtuse, glabrous, minutely notched or sulcate at 

 l0 P; ovules about 3 superposed. Fruit-carpels 1-3-seeded, £-1* »• W. 

 narrowed between the seeds, glabrous, on stipes of 1-5 lines.— Uvartat 

 ^gehi, Hook. f. Fl. Nig. 208. t. 17. 



the X N- Per Guinea - On the Quorra, T. Vogel 1 Sierra Leone, and Nupe and Onitscha on 

 •Hgw, Barter ! Bagroo river, Mann ! 



2 - C. Mannii, Oliv. A climbing shrub, attaining 50 ft. ; the extremi- 

 S mst y-pubescent or shortly pilose at first. Leaves membranous, obovate- 

 ^ong, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, glabrous above unless on the 

 : a 7 1 e | 8 ',! Bore °r ^ss pubescent or at length glabrate beneath ; midrib and 

 paral el ilteral ^^ inent ^^ 5 _ g in Umg> lf _ 3 in . broad. Flowers 



Z •, ' ° n sim P le or fork ed peduncles or in fasciculate panicles, often trom 

 Zj axils of fallen leaves ; the peduncles sometimes repeatedly forked and very 



J? T° U8 ' with minute bracts > formin s lar s e clusters from knot p ? r , tlons 



S li old wood ; $ 2-3 lines diam., <J rather smaller, depressed-globose, 

 vervf. °? te ' X *~* line lo "£- 0" ter P eta,s dee P ] y concave ' as br0ad aS ' 0n f ' 



oi» L t0wards t,,e a P ex - ab ° ut 2 lines broad ' p» berulous - Inne j p e i als 



rne.i. S "u° Uneate ' obtlls e, equalling or shorter than the carpels. Male fl. : Sta- 

 Eux 7 ' div ^ging from the centre, surrounded by numerous very rainu te 

 SSl a 8tan »»odia ; anthers oblong, obtuse, connective not produced ; 

 sessill 8 , Fema,e fl - : Ca rpels numerous (about 60) ; ovaries pilose ; stigma 

 SfrJot ° ° r rounded -° blon &> sulcate ' £ labrouS i 0VUleS B ' unlSenate ' 



C afcf G ^ nea - Gaboon river (males only), Mann! Kongui river, Mann! and Old 

 ••(fcMfe, only), Tkamunl 



