Chloropatane.| XV. MONIMIACEH (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 169 
Shrubs; branches slender. Leaves alternate, penninerved. Flowers 
fascicled. 
Species 2, endemic, 
Leaves obtuse at the base ; lateral nervesabout 10each side 1. C. africana. 
Leaves cuneate at the base; lateral nerves 6-8 each side . 2. C, Batesii. 
1. C. africana, Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 383. Branches slender, 
green. Leaves broadly oblong, penninerved, acute or acuminate, 
obtuse at the base, slightly undulate at the margin, up to 5 in. long 
and 22 in. wide; lateral nerves about 10 each side; petiole 24 lin. 
long, semiterete, channelled above, biglandular at the apex. Flowers 
in axillary fascicles on lateral branches 14 in. long; outer bracts con- 
cave, scarious, inner lanceolate ; pedicels 3 lin. long. -Perianth green ; 
segments ovate-lanceolate.—Perkins & Gilg in Eng]. Pflanzenr. Monim. 
24, fig. 4, M-R. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: in a wood near Yaunde, Zenker, 494, 798 ; 
Batanga, Dinklage, 1057. 
2. C. Batesii, C. 1. Wright. A shrub 4-8 ft. high. Branches 
slender, terete. Leaves elliptic, 5 in. long, 2 in. wide, cuspidate, cuneate 
at the base, thinly membranous, pale green, minutely verrucose below, 
puberulous on the main nerves, otherwise glabrous; lateral nerves 4—6 
each side, slender, looping within the margin; petiole 4 lin. long, 
puberulous, Racemes axillary near the end of the branches; peduncle 
slender, 10 lin. long; pedicels filiform, 8 lin. long. Male flower 2 lin. 
in diam. Perianth shortly 4-lobed, green, glabrous, spherical in bud. 
Anthers obovoid. Female flower unknown. 
Lower Guinea. Cameroons: Efulen, Bates, 409! 
3. XYMALOS, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i 650. 
Flowers dicecious. Male flower: Perianth 4-6-partite; lobes ovate 
or lanceolate. Stamens 10-15; anthers subsessile, 2-celled, dehiscence 
longitudinal. Rudiment of ovary none. Female flower: Perianth 
3-5-lobed. Staminodes absent, or represented by a ring of hairs around 
the base of the ovary. Ovary obovoid or turbinate, glabrous, 1-celled ; 
ovule solitary, pendulous, anatropous; stigma sessile, discoid or sub- 
hemispherical, wider than the top of the ovary. Fruit fleshy, smooth, 
crowned by the persistent stigma. Seed compressed-ellipsoid, albu- 
minous; embryo small; cotyledons roundish, flat.—Shrubs or small 
trees, glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves nearly opposite, coria- 
ceous, shortly petioled, minutely pellucid-punctate. Racemes solitary or 
geminate in the axils of the leaves; bracts ovate or oblong. 
Species 2, one of which extends into South Africa. 
Leaves obovate to elliptic . . ‘ . ° ° . 
Leaves oblong . . ° : . : . : . 
1. X. monospora. 
2. X, ulugurensis. 
1. X. monospora, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 650. A 
shrub or small tree. Branches glabrous. Leaves alternate or almost 
opposite, up to 6 in, long and 24 in. wide, varying from obovate to 
