Sarcocephalus. | LXX. RUBIACEZ (HIERN). 39 
}-# in.; stipules short, obtuse, keeled, minutely ciliate. Flowering 
heads about 2 in. diam., terminal. Calyx-teeth furnished with alter- 
- nating filiform-clavate appendages of +', in. long, which are soon torn 
up from their attachment by the growth of the white pale pink or 
yellowish fragrant corolla, the latter din. long. Style brownish pink ; 
stigma snow-white. Fruiting head 24-8} in. diam., of a deep red 
colour, with brown granulated surface and solid firm edible core, 
which occupies about a quarter of the diameter.—Cephalina esculenta, 
Schum. and Thonn. Pl. Guin., p. 105, quoted by DC. in Prodr. iv. p. 
368, and others as (0. scandens. Nauclea latifolia, Smith! in Rees 
Cycl. xxiii. n. 5. N. sambucina, T. Winterbottom, account of 
Sierra Leone ii. p. 45 (1803). 
_ The peach or country fig of the natives at Sierra Leone. A specimen of gum from 
this plant is in the Kew Museum. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, G. Don!, Th. Vogel!, Afzelius!, Smeathman! ; 
Senegambia, Park! ; Monrovia, Th. Vogel (Niger Fl: 32): Cape Coast, 7h. Vogel ; 
Guinea, Thonning (flowers in May and June); Bagroo River, Mann! (flowers in 
April); Niger, Nupe, Barter ! (common, fruit ripe in October). 
_, Common on the coast of the Niger. Native name in the neighbourhood of Bassa 
doy,’ and amelliky at Sierra Leone (Winterbottom J. ¢.). 
, 2. S. Russeggeri, Kotschy ex Schweinf. Rel. Kotsch. p. 49, t. 
33 (excl. fig. 6-7, 9-12). A shrub of 6-20 ft. or a tree ranging up to 
ft., very nearly glabrous, shining. Leaves broadly elliptical or 
occasionally somewhat oblong, shortly and suddenly acuminate, in most 
cases abruptly narrowed into the petiole, with 6—7 lateral veins on 
each side, 3-12 by 2-10 in.; petiole 1-1} in.; stipules short, obtuse, 
keeled, minutely ciliate. Flowering heads 1-1} in. diam., axillary and 
terminal. Calyx-teeth irregularly jagged, without alternating ap- 
Dendages, Corolla white, 4-8 in. long, sweet-scented. Fruiting head 
Y 23 in. diam., brown, apple-tasted, edible; pulp reddish pink ; seeds 
(laggy oer haus, sp., T. Thoms. in Speke, Journ., App. p. 636 
Worth Central. Monbuttu-land, Schweinfurth ! ; 
land ue and. Sennaar, Kotschy! Woods at Madi, Speke and Grant! ; Djur- 
d, Schweinfurth ! Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth! 
2. ADINA, Salisb. ; Benth. et Hook. f, Gen. Pl. ii. p. 30. 
& Flowers crowded, compact, on globose common bracteolate re- 
oPtacles. Calyx-tubes contiguous, prismatic; limb half 5-cleft. 
5p latube usually elongated ; throat funnel-shaped, glabrous; lobes 
tt Short, ovate or rounded, valvate in the bud. Stamens 5, inserted on 
4 1 throat of the corolla ; filaments short; anthers basifixed, shortly 
ie ong, exserted. Disk cup-shaped. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform, 
wen exserted ; stigma capitate ; ovules numerous, pendulous, imbri- 
ees Capsule septicidally dicoccous; cocci dehiscing inside. Seeds 
conn e? Wnged at both ends.—Trees or shrubs with terete branches, 
ome or whorled petiolate leaves, interpetiolar ample oblong obtuse 
pules, solitary or panicled pedunculate heads, and small flowers. 
A tropical or sub-tropical genus of about 7 species, chiefly Asiatic and American. 
