Lecaniodiscus.] xliv. sapindace*: (baker). 429 



1. L. cupanioides, Planch, in Fl. Nigrit. 251. A tree 30 ft. high, 

 with strong, woody, finely grey-downy, sulcate branches. Petiole woody, 

 ly-2 in. long. Leaflets oblong or with a slight obovate tendency, in 4-5 

 nearly sessile opposite pairs, the upper ones 4-6 in. long, 2-2£ 'in. broad, 

 blunt or bluntly cuspidate, the base broadly cuneate, the edge entire but 

 slightly crisped ; texture membranous, upper surface glabrous, the lower nearly 

 so with the main veins a little raised. Flowers in fascicles in nearly sessile 

 axillary racemes, 4-6 in. long, 1 in. broad. Petioles slender, 3-4 lines long, 

 ike the axis slightly downy, with a linear-subulate, deciduous, very downy 

 tact at the base. Buds i|-2 lines long, the sepals oblong, blunt, finally 

 renexed and purplish with 2 prominent, grey, vertical ribs on the inside. 

 tetals 0. Stamens 10, unequal, much exserted, naked. Capsule bony, ob- 

 ">ng, rather pointed, £ in. deep, clothed with dense, short, yellowish-grey to- 

 mentum. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ! Niger country, T. Vogel ! Barter ! 

 flowers purplish-green, fragrant. 



2. L. fraxinifolia, Baker. A shrub with woody, sulcate, finely grey- 

 downy branches. Petiole about 1 in. long. Leaflets 'in 5-7 sessile,' subop- 

 Posite pairs, \-\ in. distant from one another, the full-grown ones oblong- 

 jnceolate, 2-3 in. long, f-1 in. broad, the point bluntish or subacute, the 

 PP father rounded, the margin entire ; texture membranous, colour pale 

 •go, both sides glabrous, the main veins slender and1>ut slightly raised be- 

 neath. Flowers fascicled, in nearly sessile axillary racemes, \\-1 in. long, 

 ?in. broad; pedicels equalling the' calyx, which is \ in. deep. Sepals 4-5, 

 oolong, blunt, coriaceous, more or less matted with grey down, usually ap- 

 pressed to the young ovary. Petals 0. Stamens 8-1 0', much exserted in 

 ne male flowers. Ovary 'flask-shaped, densely grey-downy, crowned by the 

 8u -bsessile, 3-lobed stigma. Capsule broad-oblong, pointed, £ in. deep, the 

 ° uter s hell hard, nearly black, with a thin grey-downy bloom. 



Moxamb. Distr. Zambesi-land ; Tette, Senna, and banks of the Shire, Dr. Kirk ! 



9- CHYTRANTHUS, Hook. f. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 403. 



Flowers polygamous, irregular. Calyx urceolate, coriaceous, oblique, 5- 

 jjjW above the middle, the lobes valvate, unequal. Petals 5, unequal, 

 j'near-spathulnte, slightlv exceeding the calyx, with a short scale and subu- 

 jte process above the claw. Disk annular, pubescent. Stamens 8, within 

 he disk, approximated in 2 bundles; the filaments filiform and pilose; 

 P*» linear-oblong. Ovary 3-lobed, short, tomentose, 3-celled ; style 3- 

 d - Ovules solitary in the cells, erect. Capsule large, orbicular, 3-lobed 

 most down to the axis, the lobes compressed and coriaceous, the cells hairy. 

 gj not arillate, orbicular, compressed, with an elongate hilum, the testa 

 ° r »aceo us . Cotyledons conferruminate, adhering to the testa j radicle in- 

 ^spicuous.— A small tree. 



* 51D gle species, restricted to W. tropical Africa. 



