Heptapleurum. | LXIX. ARALIACEE (HIERN). 31 
in fruit raised on a short column of about their own length; stigmas 
subcapitate ; fruit subglobose, acutely 5- or 6-ribbed, } in. long. 
Upper Guinea. Camaroons mountains, Mann! fr. February, 4500 ft. alt. 
6. H. Mannii, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 942. A quite glabrous 
tree, 40-50 ft. high. Branches 4-4 in. thick close to the extremities. 
Leaves 3-10-foliate ; petioles 6-11 in. long, terete, faintly sulcate ; 
leaflets oval-oblong, acuminate at apex, somewhat cuneate or scarcely 
rounded at base, thinly coriaceous, 4—8 in. long, shining above, entire, 
on stalks 1-2} in. long. Inflorescence 7-17 in. long, terminal; pri- 
mary pedicels 4-3 in. long; secondary obsolete; bracteoles ovate acu- 
minate. Capitula of about 20 flowers, } in. in diameter. Calyx and 
corolla green. Stigmas papilliform, scarcely raised above the wide 
convex disk. Fruit subglobose, 1-10th in. long, 5- or 6-ribbed.— 
Paratropia Mannii, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 10.  Astropanaa: 
Manni, Seem. in Journ. Bot. 1865, 178. Sciodaphyllum Manni, Seem. in 
Rev. Heder. 51. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po and Camaroons mountains, 4500-7500 ft. alt., Mann ! 
3. CUSSONIA, Thunb.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 944. 
Calyx with sinuous or obscurely 5-dentate margin ; petals 5, valvate ; 
stamens 5; anthers ovate. Epigynous disk flattish or shortly conical ; 
ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, short. Fruit 2-celled, fleshy or dry ; albumen 
Tuminated.—Glabrous subglabrous or softly terete trees with palmatifid 
or digitate leaves, with crenate or entire leaflets crowded near the ends 
of the branches, Stipules lanceolate, partly connate within the petiole. 
JOwers spicate or racemose, hermaphrodite, bracteate, sessile or con- 
tinuous with the pedicels.—Spherodendron, Seem.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen, Plant. i, 1009, 
Genus of about 12 species, limited to Tropical and Southern Africa and the neigh- 
uring islands, 
Flowers spicate, sessile. 
Leaves almatipartite . . . . 1 1 we ee ew ew ee OL CQ arborea. 
Leaves digitate. 
aflets and spikes sessile or subsessile. 
7 aflets crenately serrulate ; petioles 5}-74 in. long . 2. C. Kirkii. 
Le eo entire; petioles 15 in.Jlong . 2. 1 ee eee BE Barteri. 
Flowen. ets lobed and clavate spikes, both stalked . . . . . 4. C. spicata. | 
Pedicelled 2 2. 2, kk ee ee ee 5 Cl. angolensis. 
toner Btborea, Hochst. in A, Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 336, t. 56. A softly 
the entose tree, with branches thick at the extremities, marked with 
lon ine of the fallen leaves. Petioles subsulcate, terete, 6-18 in. 
if f eaves palmate, with 5-7 lobes divided to 3-1 in. from petiole, 
7 ck 3 lobes oval, narrowed towards base, acutely acuminate at 
at fon’ “tie green above, paler beneath, serrulate. Inflorescence about 
teole lene? consisting of spikes crowded at ends of branches ; brac- 
spi il anceolate, shorter than the fruit. Flowers sessile, crowded, 
Pirally arranged on the spikes, polygamous. Rachis 3-4 in. thick. 
