170 OXY. MONIMIACEH (BAKER AND WRIGHT). [.Xymalos. 
elliptic, cuneate at the base, usually irregularly serrate, more rarely 
entire, glabrous ; main lateral nerves forming loops about 3 lin. within 
the margin; petiole about 6 lin. long. Inflorescence dicecious. Male 
flowers subtended by an ovate pubescent bract shorter than the perianth. 
Perianth nearly 1 lin. long, deeply 4-lobed, pubescent. Stamens about 
10; anthers shortly elliptic, subsessile. Female flowers: Perianth 
3-5-lobed, less than 1 lin. long, pubescent outside, and with a ring of 
hairs inside near the base. Ovary oblong, slightly longer than the 
perianth; stigma sessile, wider than the ovary.—Warb. in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 6A, 53, fig. 21, A, B; Oliv. in Hook. Ic. PI. 
t. 2444; Perkins in Engl. Pflanzenr. Monimiacee, 23; Sim, For. Fl. Cape 
Col. 288, t. 121; Burtt-Davy in Transv. Agric. Journ. v. 416, t. 171. 
A. usambarensis, Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 310. Xylosma monospora, Harv. 
Thes. Cap. ii. 52, t. 181. TYowxicodendron acutifolium, Benth. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xvii. 214. Paxiodendron usambarense, Eng]. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
C. 182, incl. var. serratifolia, 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Mount Kenia, 7000-8000 ft., Battiscombe, 
17! Hutchins ! and without precise locality, Elliott,43! Uganda: Kalungu woods, 
Scott-Elliot, 7367! lower slopes of Ruwenzori, Dawe, 597 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Iruja, Holst, 4249! 
Marangu, 6200-8500 ft., Volkens, 1876, 1908, 2264. British Central Africa: 
North Nyasaland, Whyte ! 
Also in South Africa, where it is known as “ wild lemon ” or ‘ lemon-wood.” 
2. KX. ulugurensis, Lngl. Jahrb. xxx. 310, in obs. A tree up to 
26 ft. high. Branches glabrous, purplish. Leaves dense, oblong, obtuse, 
bullate, rather thickly coriaceous, up to 34 in. long and 1} in. wide, 
glabrous; midrib purplish; lateral nerves about 7 each side, patent, 
prominent beneath ; petiole semiterete, 24 lin. long. Racemes many, 
solitary or in pairs in the leaf-axils, shortly ashy-pilose ; bracts 4 lin. 
long, ovate. Perianth cupular, shortly 4-lobed. Berry ovoid, smooth, 
about 7 lin. long and 4 lin. in diam. Seed of the same shape as the 
berry.—Paaxiodendron ulugurense, Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 389. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Central Uluguru, on the Lukwangula 
Plateau, 7800 ft., Goetze, 274! 
Ihave only seen a fragment of this, and am donbtful whether it is distinct from 
monospora, Baill. 
4, PLAGIOSTYLES, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, ii. 1326. 
Male flowers: Perianth small, 6-8-lobed. Stamens numerous ; 
anthers subsessile, 2-celled, dehiscence longitudinal. Female flowers: 
Perianth 5-lobed. Ovary 1-celled ; stigma sessile, hemispheric, slightly 
excentric, becoming lateral in fruit; ovule solitary, pendulous. Fruit 
fleshy. Seed closely applied to the pericarp; raphe branched; embryo 
small; endosperm oily.—Leaves alternate. Flowers racemose. 
Monotypic, endemic, 
In a note with one of the specimens at Kew, Pierre says that the ovules are soli- 
tary, and not in pairs,as stated in his original description, This genus is closely 
allied to Xymalos, from which it differs chiefly in the curious structure of its seeds. 
