162 CXIV. MYRISTICACEEH (STAPF).  [Scyphocephalium. 
anthers } lin, long. Fruit (quite young) subglobose, 14 in. in diam., 
densely fulvo-tomentose.—Warb. in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. Ixviii. 
249. Myristica Mannii, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. xiii. 49, t. 1262. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Old Calabar, Mann, 2290! Cameroons: 
Cameroon River, Mann, 752! near Victoria, Winkler, 360! Duala, near Ndokoti, 
Winkler, 741! and without precise locality, Braun, 3! 
3. S. chrysothrix, Warb.in Notizbl. Kinigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 98. 
A tree; young branches ferruginous-tomentellous, at length glabrous, 
greyish and with scattered prominent lenticels. Leaves oblong-obovate, 
narrow and acute at the base, abruptly and obliquely cuspidate, 5-7 in. 
long, 14-24 in. broad, soon glabrous on both sides; midrib very 
prominent ; lateral nerves spreading, parallel, about 16 on each side; 
veins obscure; petiole 3-6 lin. long, rather slender. Inflorescences 
unknown. Fruiting peduncle stout, short, bearing at the apex one or 
few fruits on pedicels about 1 in. long and 4 lin. thick. Fruit depressed- 
globose, almost 4 in. in diam., about 3 in. high, covered with a dense 
woolly yellowish-red tomentum which rubs off easily ; sutural ridges 
faint; pericarp almost 1 in. thick when fresh; aril red. Seed 14 in. 
in diam., not quite 1 in. high; testa 5-7 lin. thick. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: in forests, Braun, 162. 
3. CAALOCARYON, Warb. in Notizbl. Kénigl. Bot. Gart. 
Berlin, i. 99. 
Male flower: Perianth cupuliform, 3- (rarely 4-) partite. Filaments 
united into a column; anthers 3-5, adnate to the upper half of the 
column. Female flower: Perianth as in the male, slightly larger. 
Ovary ovoid-globose, glabrous ; stigma sessile, 2-lobed. Fruit medium- 
sized, oblong; pericarp dehiscent, fleshy, usually thick ; aril covering 
the seed, deeply laciniate and fenestrate. Seed oblong; testa crus- 
taceous; endosperm more or less deeply ruminate, with a (some- 
times narrow) cavity in the centre, full of fat, destitute of starch ; 
rumination-folds radial. Cotyledons free, suberect.—Leaves chartaceous 
or coriaceous; lateral nerves oblique, curved towards the margins, 
faintly looping. Flowers in dense small loosely panicled umbels, when 
quite young surrounded by an involucre of caducous bracts, the bases 
of which are joined into a disk and persist. 
Species 3, endemic. 
Fruits obtuse. 
Leaves oblong to lanceolate-oblong i : ee? a fe 
Leaves obovate-oblong and more or less panduriform . 2. C. Preussii. 
Fruits acute 3. C. oxycarpum. 
1. C. Klainei, Pierre apud Heckel in Rev. Cult. Colon. xii. (1903), 
130. A tree 30-50 ft. high; branchlets slightly pubescent when quite 
young, soon glabrous. Leaves oblong to lanceolate-oblong, more or less 
acute or subobtuse at the base, more or less acuminate, 5-12 in. long; 
2 4 in. broad, coriaceous, adpressedly rufo-pubescent in bud, very 
