38 III. anonace^; (oLivEit). [Monodora. 



yellowish, variegated with very dark blackish-red or purple-brown spots. 

 Inner petals shortly clawed, lamina ovate-cordate broadly cordate or ovate, 

 obtuse, more or less distinctly auricled at the base on each side ; auricles in- 

 curved, pilose ; the margin and sometimes the back of the petals are also 

 more or less pilose or puberulous, \— § as long as the outer petals. Stigma 

 lobulate or nearly entire. Fruit large, globose, usually more or less distinctly 

 longitudinally striate or obscurely ridged, with a thick woody pericarp, 4-6 

 in. diam. — Bot. Mag. 3059. Xylopia undulata, P. de Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. 27 

 t. 16 (excl.fr.). 



Var. grandifiora (M. grandiflora, Benth. in Linn. Trans, xxiii. 474, talib. 52, 53.) 

 Leaves \-2 ft. Bract about the middle of the peduncle or a little above. 



Upper Guinea. St. Thomas's and Prince's Island, Ambas Bay, Mann ! Old Calabar, 

 Thomson t 



Lower Guinea. Golnngo Alto, Angola, in primeval forests attaining an elevation of 

 2400 ft. above the sea, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



In the original M. Mi/ristica, as described by Dnual and Mr. Bentham from specimens 

 gathered from trees (one or two ?) introduced into the West Indies, where it is cultivated 

 under the name of the Calabash Nutmeg, the leaves are usually rather small, about 4-6 in. 

 long and 1-2 in. in breadth, and the bract is near the summit of the peduncle immediately 

 under the flower. I have not seen any wild specimens precisely corresponding to these cul- 

 tivated ones, but I feel little hesitation in regarding them as specifically the same. 



Dr. Welwitsch describes the tree as growing to a height of 50-60 ft., with a trunk 2-21 

 ft. diam. 



2. M. teimifolia, Benth. in Linn. Trans, xxiii. 475. A tree from 7-30 

 ft. in height. Leaves membranous, oblanceolate or oval-oblong, acute or 

 shortly acuminate, at the time of flowering usually not exceeding 3-4 in. l> 

 length, but not fully developed. Petioles 1-2 lines. Peduncles either from 

 the young extremities and nearly leaf-opposed or on short lateral shoots from 

 wood of the previous year, about 1-2 in. long, with an ovate or ovate-la"' 

 ceolate clasping bract. Flowers variable in size, at length 2-4 in. across. Se- 

 pals connate at the base, more or less ovate-lanceolate, tapering, acute or ob- 

 tuse, undulate. Outer petals pearly- or greenish-white marked with deep red, 

 crisped, ovate-lanceolate, tapering ; inner petals much shorter, the extremity 

 linear-oblong or obtusely acuminate, with a pilose lateral tooth on each side 

 near the middle. Fruit ovoid, attaining 4 in. in length and 3 in. diam. 



Upper Guinea. Eppah and Aghamia, on the Niger, Barter ! Ambas Bay aud Fer- 

 nando Po, Mann ! Old Calabar, Mann ! Thomson ! 



3. M. angolensis, Welwitsch in Linn. Trans, xxvii. (ined.) t. 1. P<*' 

 fectly glabrous. Leaves oblong-elliptical or obovate-oblong, shortly acumi- 

 nate or cuspidate, rounded or cuneate at the base, membranous at first, at 

 length more or less coriaceous, 2-6 in. long, 1-2J in. broad. Flowers lg~ 3 

 in. diam. Peduncles 1-3 in. Sepals lanceolate, from a rather broad base, 

 crisped, deciduous. Inner petals with a transversely elliptical or oblontJ 

 lamina, terminating in an abrupt obtuse or rather acute cusp or acumen much 

 shorter or sometimes nearly equalling the shorter diameter of the lamina: 

 claw narrow, 2-3 lines long, more or less puberulous-tomentose on the 

 margin or nearly glabrous, destitute of the lateral, pilose, tooth-like appen- 

 dage of the lamina of M. tenuifolia. The inner petals are coloured rose or 

 pink, at least towards the margin; the outer variegated with deep redorp« r ' 





