444 Xlv. anacabdiace^ (ohver). [HamatostapJiis. 



Upper Guinea. Nupe, Niger, Barter ! 



Mr. Barter calk the fruit the " Blood-plum " of the Nupe district. 



6. TRICHOSC^PHA, Hook. f. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 423. 



f ? Flowers small, unisexual or hermaphrodite. Calyx 4(-5)-fid ; lobes ovate 

 or deltoid. Petals 4(-5), ovate, valvate in aestivation. Male fl. ; Stamens 

 as many as and alternate with the petals ; filaments filiform, inflexed in bud ; 

 anthers elliptical or ovate-oblong, versatile. Ovary 0. Female or herma- 

 phrodite fl. : Stamens shorter ; filaments subulate; anthers ovoid (effete?). 

 Ovary sessile, ovoid, surrounded by a more or less distinct disk, densely hir- 

 sute ; styles usually 3, nearly or quite free, glabrous ; stigmas capitellate. 

 Ovule solitary, pendulous. Fruit (in one species) ovoid, dry and indehiscent, 

 bearing the remains of the styles. Seed exalbuminous, with a thin testa. 

 Cotyledons thick, plano-convex. — Small trees or scandent shrubs. Leaves 

 ample, alternate, unequally pinnate, 9-15-foliolate ; leaflets entire, membra- 

 nous or coriaceous. Flowers in short, dense or clustered, terminal panicles. 



Confined to W. equatorial Africa. 



Leaflets membranous or thinly coriaceous. Male flowers in compact pa- 

 nicles . . 1. T. Manntt. 



Leaflets coriaceous, shining above. Male flowers sessile, densely clustered 



in branching panicles 2. T. lucens. 



1. T. Maxmii, Hook.f. in Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PI. i. 423. A small 

 tree. Leaves imparipinnate, ample, 2-3 ft. long, 11-13-foliolate, the rachis 

 more or less hirsute- or strigillose-pilose ; leaflets approximated in pairs or 

 alternate, oval-oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, usually acuminate, glabrous 

 above excepting the impressed strigillose midrib, sparsely pilose or at length 

 wholly glabrous beneath, with prominent midrib and curved looping lateral 

 nerves ; 5-10 in. long, l£-3£ in. broad (the lower often smaller) ; petiolules 

 not exceeding 1 or 2 lines or 0. Flowers 2-3 lines in diam., collected in 

 very dense short panicles at the ends of the branches 2-4 in. long and 

 broad. Pedicels 1-2 lines, of the perfect flower stout, strigillose or glabrous. 

 Calyx 4(-5)-fid ; lobes deltoid, acute. Stamens of the male flower with fili- 

 form filaments, exserted, of the hermaphrodite shorter than the petals. Ovary 

 densely hirsute; styles free nearly from the base, glabrous. Fruit ovoid, 

 apiculate, tipped with the remains of the styles, about % in. long, coriaceous 

 and thinly pilose. 



Upper Guinea. Gaboon river and Old Calabar river, Mann ! 

 The petals of the male flowers retain a deep-red colour when dry. 



2. T. lucens, Olw. A climbing shrub, attaining 30 ft. Leaves rather 

 coriaceous, £-2 ft. or more in length, rachis puberulous or glabrescent ; M»* 

 lets 11-15, the lateral approximated in pairs, oval-oblong, acuminate, shining 

 above, midrib and lateral nerves prominent beneath, early wholly glabrous or 

 finely puberulous beneath or the impressed midrib above only minutely stri- 

 gillose, 3-7 in. long, \\-1\ in. broad ; petiolule 3-6 lines in the male, about 

 1 line in the female plant in our specimens, Flowers 1^-2 lines in diam., 

 4-merous (male only seen), sessile, in dense oblong or rounded clusters on 



