Olai. 



XXXIX. OLA CINE* (OLIVER). 349 



1. 0. Mannii, Oliv. A glabrous shrub of 6-8 ft. Leafy branches 

 subterete with short, more or less prominent, decurrent lines from the leaf- 

 bases. Leaves firmly membranous or thinly coriaceous, very shortly petio- 

 late or subsessile, oblong-elliptical or -lanceolate, acute or acuminate, rounded 

 or cuneate at the base, entire or repand-denticulate towards the apex ; prin- 

 cipal lateral veins subdistant, broadly looping some little distance within the 

 margin, not very prominent ; 3-6 in! long, 1-2| in. broad ; petiole 1-2 lines 

 or less. Flowers in very short axillary racemes or fasciculate. Common 

 pmuncle ^-\ in. Pedicels J-l line ; bracts ovate or rotundate, much 

 shorter than the pedicels. Calyx shortly cupuliform, subentire. Stamens 

 usually 8, 5 anantherous, opposite to the petals, 3 antheriferous, alternating 

 with the petals, all more or less adnate. Ovary 3-celled below. Fruit 

 wholly enclosed within the rather loose, coriaceous, accrescent calyx, f-f in. 

 i" Bra., globose or depressed globose. Pericarp coriaceous. 



Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Camaroons river, and Sierra d. Crystal, Maun ! 



*• 0. viridis, Oliv. A small shrub. Extremities suleate or angular 

 with faint decurrent lines ; punctate with minute whitish dots. Leaves sub- 

 membranous, elliptical, more or less narrowed or acuminate to the obtuse or 

 freely acute apex, narrowed at the base into the petiole and subsessile, 

 obscurely repand-denticulate towards the extremity or entire, 3-4 in. long, 

 jjr"** in. broad. Flowers waxy, white or chocolate-coloured, 1-1£ lines 

 on g, in axillary distichous racemes of \ in. or less ; bracts ovate or lanceo- 

 »te about equal to or exceeding the very short pedicels. Calyx shortly cu- 

 P'dilorm. Stamens 8, 5 usually anantherous, opposite to the petals, 3 au- 

 'neriferous, alternate. Ovary 3-celled below; stigma subcapitate. Fruit 

 i? obose, about the size of a pea, naked, the small unchanged calvx persisting 

 at 'he base. 



Vpper Guinea. Eppah, Niger, Barter ! 

 *«ower Guinea. Golnngo Alto, Angola, Dr. Wehcitscli ! 

 j^ger specimens are not in fruit, 

 "flo K ,),ant mast be near,v allic(1 t0 °- (/ambecola, which, however, is described as 



"bus magnis" and " fruetu subnudo," etc. 



b 3 - O. gambecola, Baillon in Adans. iii. 121. Shrubby. Leaves metn- 

 jaiious, sessile, broadly ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, veiny. Flowers 

 celPi racem . ose > racemes axillary, lax. Base of the ovary immersed, 3- 

 ea - Fruit small, nearly naked, globose, glabrous. 

 PPer Gninea. Senegambia, Heudelot. 

 scl "iptio n taken from M. Baillon's memoir. 1 have not seen a specimen. 



ht °* triplinervia, Oliv. A glabrous shrub of 6 ft. Extremities 

 obi e ) vith decurrent lines from the leaves. Leaves rather coriaceous, 

 late°T ell ' ptica1, narr °wed to each end, more or less acuminate, basal pair of 

 iiinr fa ' nerves rather prominentlY continued, about } in. within the margin, 

 v er ! 6 ! him »»alf the length of the "leaf ; 6-7 in. long; 2 2f in. broad ; petiole 

 i„ V bort or obsolete, the lamina being narrowed nearly to the base. Flowers 

 i *? rt » Hillary, apparently distichous racemes; pedicels very short, exceed- 



■ l *e ovate bracts. Calvx shortly cupuliform. Petals 6 (or 5). Stamens 



