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corolla-tube, alternate with 5 minute lanceolate staminodes inserted in 
the same level. Ovary silky ovoid; style 4 in. long, moderately stout, 
naked, sulcate at the stigmatose tip. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! and a plant seen in fruit only with an 
ellipsoid glabrous drupe an inch long, with a thin pericarp and single large seed from 
aeeria, Carder! and a closely allied plant, seen in bud only, from Congo, Prof. C. 
ith J 
_4. S. dulcificum, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 183. A shrub 6 ft. high, 
with slender strict glabrous brownish branchlets. Leaves shortly pe- 
tioled, exstipulate, obovate-cuncate, reaching a length of 4-6 in., obtuse, 
subcoriaceous, glabrous. Flowers few in a cluster, on cernuous ferru- 
gineo-pilose pedicels 4 in. long. Calyx ferrugineo-tomentose, with 5 
oblong obtuse segments. Corolla whitish, little longer than the calyx, 
deeply 5.fid. Stamens 5; filaments very short; anthers oblong, not 
exserted from the corolla; staminodes setaceous, as long as the sta- 
mens. Ovary subglobose ; style reaching to the top of the corolla. 
Fruit the size of a gooseberry, glabrous, succulent, l-seeded. Seed the 
same shape as the fruit, with a fragile brown glossy pericarp—Bumelia 
dulcifica, Thonn & Schum. Pl. Guin. 130. 
Upper Guinea. Aguapim, Thonning. 
5. S. densiflorum, Baker. A tree 30 ft. high, with moderately 
stout terete branchlets, thinly coated with brownish pubescence at the 
top. Leaves distinctly petioled, exstipulate ; petiole #-1 in. long; 
blade obovate-cuneate, reaching a length of nearly a foot, and a 
breadth of 4—5 in. above the middle, obtuse or shortly cuspidate, nar- 
Towed gradually from the middle to the base, subcoriaceous, glabrous 
on both sides, with 16-20 pairs of distinctly-raised arching main veins. 
Owers forming a dense continuous mass on the branchlets both in 
the axils of the leaves and below them, on slender stiff nearly glabrous 
pedicels 21 in. long. Calyx }', in. long, thinly matted with brown 
tomentum ; tube very short ; segments spreading, lanceolate. Corolla 
twice as long as the calyx ; tube very short; segments oblong-lanceo- 
late, reflexing. Filaments subulate, glabrous, as long as the corolla- 
Segments; anther ovoid-sagittate, very small, }—} as long as the fila- 
ment ; staminodes linear, as long as the corolla-segments. Ovary glo- 
bose, densely brown-silky, 5-celled ; style slender, glabrous, 7's 10. long. 
Upper Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Mann ! 
6. S. revolutum, Baker. A tree 30 ft. high, with slender terete 
naked branchlets. Leaves distinctly petioled, stipulate ; stipules rigid, 
mear-subulate, 1-8 in. long; petiole —1 in. long ; blade oblanceolate- 
oblong, reaching a length of 6-8 in., and a breadth of 2}-27 in. above 
ie middle, acute, cuneate at the base, subcoriaceous, glabrous on both 
Sides, with 10-19 pairs of arching distinctly-raised maim veins. Flowers 
very like those of S. densiflorwm, but fewer and less dense. Pedicels 
slender, glabrous, stiff, reaching }—? in. Calyx green, 7’, 1n. long, with 
. very short tube and spreading lanceolate segments. Corolla baie 
Tz In. long, with a very short tube and reflexing oblong-lanceolate 
