426 xliv. sapindace-E (baker). [Capania. 



ruginous-bristly, the lower flowers lax, solitary or 2-3 together, nearly sessile, 

 with 1-3 linear ferruginous bracts at the base. Buds hard, oblong; the 

 flowers 2 lines long. Sepals coriaceous, five in number, oblong or lanceo- 

 late, equal in length but not so in width, broadly imbricated, densely matted 

 with (lark brown pubescence on the back. Petals 5, equalling the sepals, 

 brownish, narrow-oblong, about a line broad, densely grey-villose, without a 

 scale. Stamens equalling the petals, the filaments dilated below, villose, an- 

 thers linear. Capsule woody, ^ in. long, 3-lobed, deeply emarginate at the 

 apex, densely ferruginous-bristly. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po and banks of the Muni river, lat. 1° N., Mann ! 



6. BLIGHIA, Kcenig; DC. Prod. i. 609. 



Flowers polygamo-dioecious, regular. Calyx small, cup-shaped, 4-5-lobed, 

 the lobes valvate or slightly imbricated. Petals 4-5, with a scale from the 

 inner side, usually short, obovate-spathulate, villose. Disk complete, tumid. 

 Stamens 7-10, inserted beneath the disk, centrical ; the filaments filiform, 

 usually villose ; anthers shortly oblong, much exserted. Ovary substipitate, 

 with 3 angles, 3-celled ; style terminal, the stigma 3-toothed. Ovules solitary 

 in the cells, arising from the centre of the axis. Capsule roundish, fleshy, 

 3-celled. Seeds with a crustaceous testa and large arillus. Cotyledons 

 thick, often curved. — Tall trees. 

 All endemic. 



Calyx deep-cleft, with oblong sepals, slightly imbricated in bud . . 1. B. sapida. 

 Calyx cleft about halfway down, with deltoid divisions not at all im- 

 bricated in bud. 



Leaves 1-jugate 2. B. unijugata. 



Leaves 2-jugate ....-■ 3- B. zambesiaca. 



1. B. sapida, Kosrdg ; DC. Prod. i. 609. A tree, 30 ft. high, with 

 strong, woody, grey, sulcate branches, the ultimate ones slightly grey-downy. 

 Petioles under 1 in. long, the rachis 4-6 in. Leaves abruptly pinnate, with 

 3 or 4 pairs of short-stalked, erecto-patent, opposite leaflets, the upper ones 

 obovate-oblong, 4-6 in. long by half as broad, the point blunt or acute, the 

 base subcuneate, the edge quite entire, the lowest pair much shorter, texture 

 subcoriaceous, both sides pale green, ultimately glabrous, the veins beneath 

 raised. Flowers in short-stalked, simple, axillary racemes, 3-4 in. long, | in- 

 broad. Pedicels 2 lines long, grey, matted, stout, with a broad short green 

 bract at the base. Flowers 2 lines or more long ; the five sepals oblong, grey- 

 matted, slightly imbricated in bud ; the five petals broader and considerably 

 longer, greenish-white, pubescent within and furnished with emarginate 

 scales more than half their length and broader. Petals and sepals both 

 finally patent. Stamens 7-10, the filaments grey-downy, considerably ex- 

 ceeding the corolla in the male flowers. Capsule roundish in general outline, 

 about 4 in. long, bluntly 3-gonous, fleshy, glabrous, at first yellowish, finally 

 red, with three cells, with a single hard black seed in each as large as a 

 cherry, with a prominent white arillus enveloping the lower half or two- 

 thirds. — Cupania edulis, Schum. et Thonn. PL Guin. 190. Akeesia africana, 

 Tussac. Fl. Ant. i. t. 3. p. 66. 



