Hexalobus.] m. anonace^; (oliver). 27 



Trees or shrubs, glabrous or pubescent, with axillary, solitary or fascicled, sessile or pedi- 

 cellate flowers. 



A small genus, of which the only species described belong to Africa and Madagascar, 

 waves glabrous, acuminate. Flowers on distinct pedicels, bearing a 



pair of con mite deciduous bracts 1. M. grandiflorus. 



waves more or less softly pubescent, at least on the under surface, ob- 

 tuse or acute. Flowers sessile or subsessile 2. H. senegalensis. 



1- H. grandiflorus, Bentli. in Linn. Trans, xxiii. 488. t. 49. A tree, 

 attaining 60 ft., with the extremities glabrous, or at first sparsely pilose. 

 Leaves narrow-oval or oblanceolate, acuminate, thinly coriaceous, glabrous or 

 with very thinly scattered hairs beneath, the midrib glabrous or puberulous ; 

 4-9 in. long, lf-2 in. broad ; petiole 2-4 lines. Flowers solitary or in 

 pairs, on peduncles of \- \ in., bearing a narrow leaf-bud and a pair of rusty- 

 sericeous connate bracts. Sepals ovate, concave, thick and almost woody in 

 texture, 4-6 lines long. Petals whitish, subequal, linear-lanceolate, trans- 

 versely plicate, silky-pubescent, 1* in. or more in length. Anthers linear, 

 sometimes elongate, the connective obtuse or truncate, scarcely prolonged 

 beyond the cells; filament much shorter than the anther. Carpels 10-12 ; 

 °vary densely pilose ; stigmas short, reflexed, 2-lobed ; ovules numerous, 2- 

 semte. (Fruit-carpels 3-6, sessile, about 3 in. long, \\ in - thick > rust .v"- 

 Pubescent-tomentose, rounded at the apex, with numerous seeds, transversely 

 Pwked, extending from side to side. It is not quite certain that the fruit 



ere described belongs to the same species.) 



Upper Guinea. Ambas Bav, Mann ! and Old Calabar, Thomson I 



^e fruiting specimen described above was collected by Mr. Barter on the Niger. 



2 - H. senegalensis, A. DC. Mem. Anon. 37. A small tree, the ex- 

 remities pubescent or tomentose. Leaves oblong or narrowly oval, obtuse 



J "arrowed to an acute or subacute apex, rounded or obtuse at the base, 



0r 7 Hose or pubescent, at length glabrescent above, usually softly pubes- 



■JJ beneath, the larger 4-5 in. long, 1-1 i in. broad, subsessile or petiole 



J*w*ly exceeding 1 line. Flowers cream-coloured, axillary, solitary or 2 or 



together, with 2 or 3 deciduous concave bracts. Sepals ovate, pubescent 



ci P Uose -silky. Petals narrow-lanceolate, tapering to the apex (in N iger spe- 



mens T _i in long) Anthers linear; connective slightly transversely di- 



«*f. rounded or truncate; filaments short. Carpels 4-6. Fruit-carpels 



dial ( .1 ° r subsessile > in our specimens 1-1* in. long, £-1 in. thick, terete or 



doc constricte <l, the transverse seeds separated by thin layers of the en- 



ar P-— Uvaria monopetala, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 8. t. 2. 



Kun P PP v r Guinea - Senegambia, Leprieur and Perrotlef, Heudelot ; Gambia, Whitfield I 

 JJVr, Barter I 



e Lan d- Upper Nile (Schweinf. et Asch. JEnum.) ; Madi, Speke and Grant! 



9 - ARTABOTRYS, R. Br. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 24. 



Pi 



vaW WerS herma P"rodite or unisexual. Sepals free or coherent at the base, 



two , p e - m ® 8tivat ion. Petals 6, free, nearly equal, valvate in estivation in 



iudervf 8 ' concav e at the base around the genitalia, open above. Stamens 



mt > °i>long quadrate or cuueate ; connective thickened, truncate or di- 



