118 CIX. POLYGONACEE (BAKER AND WRIGHT). [ umes. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 7000 ft., Mann, 1235 ! 
1990! 
Wile Land. Eritrea: near Saganeiti, Schweinfurth § Riva, 836! 1815! 
Abyssinia: near Gennia, in the region of Memsach, Schimper, 380! without precise 
locality, Schimper, 883! Uganda: Ruwenzori, 7000-9800 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7699! 
Dawe, 557! British East Africa: Aberdare Mountains, James! between Kibwezi 
and Machakos, Scott-Elliot, 6692! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, Johnston, 130! Thom- 
son! Volkens, 676! Usagara; Robeho Mountains, Speke § Grant! British 
Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Nyika Mountains, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte! Shire High- 
lauds, Buchanan, 77! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 513! 552! 
Also in Tropical Asia. 
R. Steudelii has been separated from R. nepalensis by the absence of tubercles 
on the back of the fruiting perianth-segments, but the tubercles may be absent and 
present in the same panicle. 
A specimen of the European and North Asian R. crispus, Linn. (Sp. Pl. ed. i. 
335), has been collected by Sir Evan James on the Aberdare Mountains, where it has 
probably been introduced. 
4, SYMMERIA, Benth.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 105. 
Flowers diecious. Male: Perianth 6-partite; segments orbicular, 
the 8 outer smaller. Stamens 20-30, inserted on a central disk ; 
filaments very short. Rudiment of ovary none. Female: Perianth 
with 3 free ovate deciduous outer segments, the 3 inner coherent into a 
fleshy mass and much enlarged after flowering, pyramidal, trigonous. 
Ovary acutely trigonous; style free at the apex; stigmas 3, fimbriate. 
Nut acutely trigonous, its faces plane or convex. Seed similar in shape 
to the nut; endosperm ruminate; embryo nearly straight; cotyledons 
broad. 
Monotypic. 
1. S. paniculata, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. 680. A 
shrub, glabrous in all its parts. Branchlets terete, woody. Leaves 
oblong, coriaceous, obtuse, cordate or cuneate at the base, 6-9 in. long; 
main veins arcuate, raised nearly to the edge; petiole short, clasping 
the branch at the base. Male flowers in an ample terminal panicle; 
branches many, long, spreading, slender ; flowers small, in few-flowered 
sessile clusters spaced out on the branches. Female flowers shortly 
pedicelled. Female perianth coriaceous, trigonous, 6-7 lin. long.— 
Meisn. in Linnea, xxi. 266, in DC. Prodr. xiv. 186, and in Mart. Fi. 
Bras. v. i. 46, t. 23; Scott-Elliot in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 95. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 334! Sierra Leone: near Kambia, 
Scott-Hiliot, 4467! near Mandira, Limba Country and Kahrini (Karena), Scott- 
Elliot, 5562! 5573! 
Also in Guiana and North Brazil. Called “mongmoi” by the Mendis near 
Kambia. 
