Allanblackia.'] xxil. guttifer* (olivek). 163 



sessile, peltate, smooth, entire ; placentas slightly projecting, free throughout, 

 each with about 16-20 biseriate, heraianatropous, ascending ovules with an 

 inferior micropyle. llipe fruit not seen. (Young fruit elongate-conical, 

 crowned with the persistent stigma.)— A glabrous tree with opposite, rather 

 coriaceous, penniveined leaves. Flowers in terminal or subterminal umbel- 

 late racemes or panicles, l|-2 in. diam. 

 A monotypic genus known only from Biafra. 



1. A. floribunda, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 43. A tree of 40 ft. 

 with terete branches. Leaves oblong-elliptical or slightly ovate-oblong, more 

 or less contracted to the acuminate or apiculate apex, rounded or sometimes 

 subcordate at the base, with a prominent midrib beneath and numerous pa- 

 rallel scarcely prominent lateral veins, 4-6 in. long, l|-2l in. broad; petiole 

 H in. Flowers rather numerous, about 1| in. diam., in terminal rather 

 umbellate racemes or subpaniculate, the leafy axis sometimes produced 

 beyond the inflorescence ; peduncles stout, l-*-2 in. long, 1-3 together, from 

 the axils of the uppermost reduced leaves. Sepals coriaceous, orbicular, 

 wneave, the outermost much smaller than the inner and sometimes slightly 

 kwer than the rest. Petals obovate-cuneate, twice as long as the inner 

 sepals and exceeding the phalanges in the male flower. Anthers closely 

 crowded on the upper face of the cuneate-spathulate phalanges towards the 

 a pex. Stigma about $ in. broad.— Hook. Ic. Plant. 1004. 



wpper Guinea. Camaroons river, Mann I 



2. SYMPHONIA, Linn. f. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 173. 

 , Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, broadly rotundate imbricate Petals 

 5 . exceeding the sepals, closely convolute. Stamens 15 in 5 pha an es, 

 formate nearly or quite to the extrorse linear anthers; anthers of each pha- 

 la »ge connate, produced into a lanceolate or triangular cotmectwe I)i,k 

 ^puliform, thick, surrounding the base of the stammal column Ova y 5- 

 «k Style thick short or° elongate, deeply 5- obed "boje ; bbe r. ad.a te 

 m a minute apical stigma ; ovules usually 3-5 in each cell (,n he ^African 

 £**). Fruit an ellipsoidal 1-seeded berry (or globose, fcMeaded).^^ 

 ty> an undivided thick radicle {tigella); cotyledons O.-lrees or shrubs 

 * lth parallel-penniveined leaves. Flowers umbellate, crimson. 

 J A «*11 genus of which all the species, excepting the following, appear to be confined to 

 •"^agascar. 



f J- S globulifera, Linn. f. Su PP L ^'J^lZZ'lo eS 

 e n c % glabrous, with oval-oblong rather conaceous leaves n^ ™ roa der above 

 H usually shortly and obtusely acuminate sometimes rather broader ^ 



J^efgraduaUy tapering to the P etl f ' Vis 'solitfrV'or 2 or 3 U>- 

 g* H in. Flowers in many-flowered ^s^oht^ o tj 



th er, terminating lateral shoots shorter than the surrou n< in c i 



J* «bort stout peduncles ; pedicels J-l in. bug. Bndjjhi £ »^ 

 ^ each cell of the ovary. Fruit 1-seeded, ^S^£Si£S. Se°ed 

 »JJ by the remains" of the style (? W> &*£~E£ &**"■ 

 glab rous or, from the fibrous dissolution of the testa, appaic ^ ^ 



