Pycnanthus.| -CXIV. MYRISTICACEH (STAPF). 159 
North Central. Ubangi Territory: Krebedje, Chevalier, 6009! 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Don! Boa Entrada, Chevalier, 
18755 ! 13719! Samuelson (seeds in the Kew Museum)! Mount Caffé, 2000 ft., 
Welwitsch, Carp. Coll. 883! Gaboon, Griffon de Bellay and Duparquet, 120. 
Spanish Gaboon: Fang Country, 1500 ft., Tessmann, B. 65! Angola: Golungo 
Alto; frequent in forests in various localities, Welwitsch, 781! 782! 782n! 7820! 
782p ! and Carp. Coll. 881! 882! Casengo, 1000-2300 ft., Gossweiler, 679. 
Var. spherocarpa, Stapf. Fruit subglobose, 3—3 in, in diam., on one side with a 
slightly prominent sutural ridge, on the other with a shallow groove, hence sub- 
cordate in transverse section. 
Wile Land. German East Africa: Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1167! 
This may in the future prove to be a distinct species. 
The seeds of the type are remarkable on account of their containing great 
quantities of a fat (up to 72 per cent.), and according. to Welwitsch they are used 
by the natives for illumination purposes, burning like tapers even when fresh, 
2. P. microcephala, Stapf (not of Warb.). A tree 60-80 ft. 
high; branchlets like all the young parts of the plant very finely 
tomentellous ; tomentum reddish or ochreous, consisting of minute 
(often stellate) papille, soon rubbing off. Leaves oblong to lanceolate-. 
oblong, shortly cordate at the base, contracted into a fine acumen, up 
to 1 ft. long and 2-3 in. (or more) wide; tomentum in the mature 
state reduced to a few scattered minute whitish stellate hairs; midrib, 
lateral nerves and veins as in P. Kombo, but the nerves 40-60 on each 
side ; petiole stout, up to 6 lin. long, very soon glabrous. Male panicles 
3-8 in. long, up to 6 in. wide, finely rusty-tomentellous, at length 
glabrescent ; peduncle 3-14 in. long, like the rhachis and branches more 
slender than in P. Kombo ; heads loosely clustered on the short secon- 
dary branchlets, globose, up to 1 lin.in diam. Perianth and andreecium 
asin P. Kombo. Female panicle unknown. Fruiting panicle somewhat 
contracted, up to 8 in. long; primary branches obliquely erect, up to 
3 in. long; pedicels extremely short. Fruit obovoid (not quite mature), 
up to 1 in, long and 8 lin. in diam., with distinct sharp but slender 
sutural ridges; pericarp very finely fulvous-tomentellous,—WVyristica 
microcephala, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. xiii. 48, t. 1261. 
Upper Guinea, Fernando Po, Mann, 572! 
Imperfectly known species. 
3. P. Dinklagei, Warb. in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. |xviii. 258. 
A tree about 30 ft. high, with pendulous branches ; branchlets glabrous, 
dark brown, lenticillate. Leaves elliptic-oblong, rounded at the base, 
subacute, 4—5 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, coriaceous, pale chocolate-brown 
beneath when dry, glabrous; midrib prominent below; lateral nerves 
about 15 on each side, dark, hardly raised, thinning out towards the 
margin and joined by faint arches; veins delicate, anastomosing ; 
petiole terete, finely channelled, up to } in. long. Male panicles axil- 
lary, ferruginous-pubescent, 24-3 in. long, with 4-5 branches on each 
side, ultimate branchlets short; bracts broad-ovate, densely hairy, 
