Slromlosia.] xxxix. olacine^e (oi.iveu). 351 



shortly pedicellate from axillary sessile cushions. Calyx-limb shortly 5-lobed : 

 lobes ovate-deltoid. Petals elliptical, broadly pointed, pilose within above. 

 Ovary broad, surrounded by an inconspicuous disk ; base partially immersed, 

 3-celled nearly to the top ; 'style subulate. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, T. Vogel ! Mann ! 



Specimens of what may be a seeoud species of Strombosia are in the Kew herbarium, 

 from the Sierra del Crystal {Mann /), but scarcely sufficient for description. 



6. COULA, Baillon in Adansonia, iii. 64. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx reduced to a very short nearly entire ring, 

 "etals 5 (rarely 4), free, thick, valvate. Stamens hypogynous, free, four 

 times as many as petals, unequal ; filaments erect, subulate. Ovary free, 

 3-4-celled below, 1-celled above, narrowed into a subulate style ; ovules 

 solitary in each division of the ovary. Fruit drupaceous, 1-celled, 1-seeded. 

 seed pendulous ; albumen fleshy ; embryo minute.— A tree. Leaves alter- 

 nate, pctiolate, coriaceous. Flowers in axillary or supra-axillary, branched 

 racemes, about equal to the petioles. 



, Based upon the following; species, of which I have not seen a specimen. The description 

 19 taken from M. BaillonVaeeouut of it. 



1- C. edulis, Baill. I. c. t. 3. Leaves ovate, abruptly acuminate, rounded 

 « cuneate at the base, 3-4 in. long, 2 in. broad ; petiole about £ in. long, 

 "acemes rusty-puberulous ; pedicels slightly thickened above. Fruit sub- 

 globose, Mf fa. in diam. 



Upper Guinea. Gaboon, Aubry LeComte I 



1- RHAPTOPETALUM, Oliv. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 995. 



Calyx cupuliform, entire or lobulate, unchanged in fruit. Petals 3, peri- 

 lous, coriaceous, glabrous, valvate in aestivation. Stamens indefinite (30- 

 40 ) ; filaments short, united below in a tube adnate to the base of the petals ; 

 others erect, narrow-linear, dehiscing by a short longitudinal slit near the 

 ■get. Ovary slightly immersed or " half-inferior," 4-celled ; style filiform ; 



j p rna minute ; ovules about 6 in each cell of the ovary, pendulous. Fruit 

 j )£ or ellipsoidal, coriaceous, 1-celled, 1-seeded. — A glabrous tree, 

 ^aves coriaceous, alternate, entire. Flowers in axillary, few-flowered, verj 



ort denies or subumbellate fascicles. 



n , m ° Dot . v P' c genus, apparently confined to W. equatorial Africa. Notwithstanding the 

 do" i ° f ovules iu cacn cell of the ovary, which indicates an affinity with Styracacea as 

 but" ° Ut t0 me b y M - Baillon, I leave this plant in Olaciuece, as in most other respects, 

 , er "P^why in habit, it accords so well with the latter family. It forms, however, an in- 

 est «ng connecting liuk between the two groups. 



!• R. coriaceum, Oliv. in Jonrn. Linn. Soc. viii. 159. t. 12. A gla- 

 , 0US tle e, attaining 3U ft. Branches terete, with slightly prominent raised 

 gj decurrent from the petioles. Leaves coriaceous, elbptical, shortly and 

 olj tusely produced at the apex, base rounded or cuneate, entire, midrib and 

 s °raetimes the lateral veins rather prominent beneath ; 3-5 in. long, \\-%\ 



