Leptauhs.] xxxix. olacine,e (oliveh). 355 



Upper Guinea. Bagroo and Kongui rivers, Mann ! 



The Kongui specimens have leaves three times as large as those of the Bagroo plant and 

 the flowers subsessile, but I cannot distinguish them specifically. 



12. APODYTES, E. Meyer; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 351. 



Calyx small, 5-toothed or -partite. Petals 5, free, valvate, glabrous or 

 nearly so. Stamens 5, alternate, free or very shortly adherent to the base of 

 the petals ; filaments usixally compressed below, subulate or filiform above. 

 Anthers linear to lanceolate-oblong. Ovary 1-celled ; style more or less 

 oblique; ovules 2, pendulous. Fruit crustaceous, obliquely ellipsoidal or 

 rounded. " Seed pendulous, with a small embryo near the apex of a fleshy 

 albumen." — Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, entire, penniveined. Flowers 

 in terminal panicles or axillary fascicles (Rhaphiostylis, Planch.). 



A small genus, confined to the tropics of the Old World. 



Fl 

 lowers in terminal panicles. Leaves broadly- or ovate-elliptical, ob- 

 tuse or acute 1. A.dimidiata. 



'owers in axillary fascicles. Leaves oblong or oval-oblong, acuminate 2. A. beninensis. 



1- A. ditnidiata, E. Mey.; Benth. in Linn. Trans, xviii. 684. t. 41. 

 « tree of 15-30 ft. or more; extremities usually appressed-puberulous at 

 hrst. Leaves petiolate, rather coriaceous, shining above, ovate-elliptical or 

 broadly elliptical, obtuse acute or shortly and broadly cuspidate, rounded or 

 broadly cuneate at base, entire, venation' obscure, glabrous, l|-3 in. long, £ 

 o nearly 2 in. broad ; petiole from }-\} in. Flowers l±-2 lines long in 

 UUQ \ in terminal, loose or subthyrsiform, many-flowered panicles, exceeding 

 0r ^ er topped by the leaves, sessile or shortly pedicellate, from very minute 

 0r obsolete bract-scales. Calyx very small, 5-fid ; lobes deltoid. Anthers 

 "near- or lanceolate-oblong. ' Ovary' pubescent. Young fruit 1-sided, com- 

 bed, oblong-rotundate or obliquely rounded. — A. acutifolia, Hochst. in 

 3- fcchimp. Abyss. 



Jjower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch I 

 «ue Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 

 lao at the Cape. Nearly allied to A. mauritiana, Planch, mss. {Icacina mauritiana, 

 ***, Contr. Bot. i. 56). 



2 - A. beninensis, Honk. f. Jc. Plant. 778. A glabrous shrub with 

 [f te ext remities. Leaves firmly membranous or coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, 



her obtusely acuminate, narrowed to the cuneate or but slightly rounded 



1' ent 're, glabrous, midrib prominent beneath, subdistant lateral veins 



°4erately so, reticulation faint, 3-6 in. long, 1-2$ in. broad ; petiole 1-2 



or es - F Jowers |-| in. long, pedicellate, in 3-10-tlowered axillary fascicles 



exceptionally subsolitary ; pedicels glabrous, shorter than or equalling the 



wers. Calyx glabrous'; lobes ovate-rotundate. Filaments compressed 



J°», subulate or filiform above. Ovary glabrous.— Wu^hio^fU* beninemis, 



.'anch. i n P] NJgrit 259 R Heuc t e i ot ii, Planch.; Miers' Contrib. Bot. 



iSl* G . Uinea - s enegambia ! Cape Palmas, T. Vogel! 

 er Guinea. Congo, Smith ! 



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