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soon quite glabrous; midrib prominent below, channelled above; 
lateral nerves 8-13 on each side; petiole $-1 in. long, subflexuous, 
stout, channelled. Male panicles axillary or extra-axillary near the 
ends of the branches, 2-34 in. long and wide, very lax, sparingly 
pubescent or almost glabrous ; peduncle $—1 in. long ; primary branches 
slender, spreading ; ultimate divisions up to more than } in. long ; involu- 
cral disk 1-2 lin, in diam., bearing about 15-20 chrome-yellow flowers ; 
pedicels clavate, very short. Perianth 3-partite, about 1 lin. long, 
sparsely and finely reddish-pubescent, particularly along the margins 
of the broad-ovate lobes. Andreecium } lin. long; stipes slender ; 
anthers 3, rarely 4, distinct, } lin. long. Female panicle similar to 
the male, but less divided; branches shorter and stouter, at length 
divaricate; umbels usually recurved when young; involucral disk 
reduced to a rim; pedicels stout, 1-14 lin. long in flower, up to 10 lin. 
in fruit, ferruginous-pubescent. Perianth as in the male, but per- 
sistent and slightly enlarged in the fruit. Fruit obovoid-oblong, 1-14 
in. long, } in. in diam. ; pericarp glabrous. Seed 12 lin. long, 7 lin. in 
diam.; testa reddish brown, shining; endosperm deeply ruminate.— 
C’. cuneatum, Warb. apud Heckel in Rev. Cult. Colon. xii. (1903), 182, 
figs. 1-6 ; in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 385. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 2109! 2492! 2665! 2735! 
3281! 3637! and without precise locality, Rudatis, 14! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Kondui, on the Sankuru River, in sandy 
soil in woods, 1400 ft., Ledermann, 8! 12! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Libreville, Klaine, 960! 1156! 1186! and with- 
out precise locality, K/aine, 693! Spanish Gaboon: Alén Akolentangan, 1500 ft., 
Tessmann, B. 108! 
2. ©. Preussii, Warb. in Notizbl. Kénigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 99. 
A tall tree with drooping branches and stout terete branchlets, which 
are finely and fugaciously rufous-puberulous near the tips. Leaves ob- 
ovate-oblong and more or less panduriform, obtuse orshortly acute near 
the base, acuminate or subcuspidate, 7-9 in. long, 3-4 in. broad, char- 
taceous, rufous-tomentellous in bud, soon glabrous, bright green; mid- 
rib prominent below, rather stout towards the base ; lateral nerves 7-11 
on each side; veins very indistinct ; petioles } to almost 1 in. long, stout, 
channelled. Male panicles usually extra-axillary, up to 2 in. long, 
finely rufo-pubescent, glabrous below; peduncle slender, $—1 in. long ; 
first internode up to ? in. long, the following (2—5) very much shorter ; 
ultimate divisions 10-2 lin. long; involucral disk 1-2 lin. in diam., 
supporting an umbel of 20 or more yellowish-green flowers ; pedicels 
slender, up to 1} lin. long, clavate. Perianth ferruginous, finely and 
sparsely pubescent, 3- (rarely 4- or 5-) partite, 1 lin. long. Andrecium 
3 lin. long; anthers 3-5, } lin.long. Female inflorescences unknown. 
Fruiting branches panicled, about 5 in. long; peduncle 13-2} in. long ; 
pedicels 7-10 lin. long, 14 lin. thick, glabrous. Fruits oblong-ellipsoid, 
almost 2 in. long, 14 in. in diam., yellow; pericarp 3 lin. thick, glabrous ; 
aril carmine. Seed 1} in. long, } in. in diam.; testa dark reddish 
brown, deeply grooved ; rumination-folds about 2 lin. deep. Embryo 
