Picralima. | LXXXIV. APOCYNACEE (STAPF). 97 
Corolla-tube long, glabrous outside, loosely pubescent within in the 
middle third, 7—9 lin. long ; lobes about as long as the tube. Anthers 
1} lin.long. Style (including the stigma) 4 lin.long. Berries 4—6 in. 
long, 3-4 in. in diam. Seeds about 1 in. long.—kK. Schum. in Engl. 
& Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 284; Erginz. i. 60; Hook. Ic. Pl. tt. 
2745-6. Tabernemontuna nitida, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1594, 22, 
& in De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo in Ann. Mus. Congo, Lot. 
sér, 2, i. fase. i. 39; De Wild. & Durand, Reliq. Dewevr. in Ann. 
Mus. Congo, Bot. sér. 3, fase. ii. 153. 
Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Robt! Cameroons: Ambas Bay, Jann, 710! 
Lower Guinea. (Gaboon: Mount Bouét, near Libreville, Jolly, 27; Klaine, 
299 ! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Lukolela, Dewevre, 847! Lokandu, 
Dewévre, 1113! 
There are 2 leaves in the herbarium at Brussels, accompanied by a coloured 
drawing by Demense (105), named Huntevia sp., Hallier f., and referred to by him 
as Hunteria in his Kautschuklianen, 190. These leaves were collected near the 
Sankuru River in the Congo Free State, and differ only slightly in their dimensions 
from those of Klaine’s specimens. The drawing represents a green pear-shuped 
fruit } natural size. The measures calculated from it are :—10% in. long and 63 in. 
wide. The pericarp is shown thick and the seeds somewhat asymmetrically oblong- 
elliptic in outline, 14 lin. long, 64 lin. wide. Demeuse’s plant is, no doubt, a 
Picralima, and possibly identical with P. klaineana. 
8. PLEIOCARPA, Benth. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. 
699. 
Calyx small, eglandular; sepals 5, almost or quite free, sub- 
membranous except at the herbaceous base, obtuse or acute. Corolla 
silver-shaped; tube cylindric, slightly widened below the mouth ; 
lobes 5, overlapping to the left. Stamens enclosed in the widened part 
of the corolla-tube; anthers free from the stigma, ovate to oblong- 
lanceolate, acute; cells obtuse at and dehiscing to the base. Dise 0. 
Carpels 2-5, distinct ; style filiform ; stigma at the level of the anthers, 
oblong-ellipsoid, papillose, not or very obscurely apiculate; ovules 1—4 
in each cell. Mericarps baccate, fleshy, coriaceous when dry, spreading, 
often rugose, 1- or 2- (rarely 3-) seeded. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, slightly 
laterally compressed ; testa membranous; endosperm almost horny ; 
cotyledons very thin, foliaceous, oblong; radicle thickened at the base, 
as long as or slightly longer than the cotyledons.—Glabrous shrubs or 
small trees. Leaves opposite or ternate, coriaceous; lateral nerves 
rather straight and parallel, usually numerous, connected by a more or 
less conspicuous marginal nerve; axillary stipules 0; axillary glands 
very obscure or 0, Flowers in sessile axillary and often opposite (rarely 
pseudo-terminal) clusters, very rarely in compact panicles or pseudo- 
umbels, 
Species 9, besides several imperfectly known, endemic. 
Corolla 3-2 in, long. Carpels 3-5, 1—-4-ovuled, 
Leaves oblong or elliptic, 13-32 in. broad. 
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