Cryptocarya. | CXVI. LAURINES (STAPF). 173 
midrib) fulvo-pubescent when young, soon glabrous. Leaves ovate to 
elliptic, subacute to subacuminate, acute at the base, 24—4 in. long, 
1}-2 in. broad, coriaceous, green above, glaucescent beneath; lateral 
nerves 4—5 on each side, the lowest pair more oblique than the others 
and somewhat distant from them, reticulation very close and fine below; 
petioles 4-8 lin. long. Inflorescences up to 10 lin. long, greyish or 
fulvo-pubescent, 7-9-flowered ; peduncle slender, 5-7 lin. long; pedicels 
up to lin. long or hardly any. Perianth not quite 14 lin. long, spar- 
ingly pubescent without; receptacle oblong, 2-1 lin. long; segments 
elliptic, the inner slightly narrower than the outer, all finely pubescent 
within. Filaments pubescent; anthers ovate, acuminate, outer 6 about 
% lin. Jong, inner smaller, narrowly acute; stamina] glands stipitate, 
their stalks inserted between the stamens of the second and third whorl, 
but converging in pairs towards the latter; staminodes substipitate. 
Fruit globose, 6—8 lin. in diam. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara, on mountain slopes near 
Muafa, 3600 ft., Buchwald, 167! 492! 
Buchwald’s specimen 492 in the British Museum collections has globose fruits, 
black with a bluish bloom, and crowned with the short persistent cylindric neck of 
the receptacle. Engler, on the other hand, describes the fruit as reddish-hairy. 
2. TYLOSTEMON, Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 389, 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth herbaceous, campanulate, turbi- 
nate or hemispheric, 6- (rarely 8-) lobed ; receptacle cupular or turbinate, 
usually occupying half of the perianth ; lobes equal or subequal, small. 
Stamens in 4 whorls, the outer 2 whorls fertile, inserted at or just above 
the base of the perianth-lobes, the third fertile or like the fourth stami- 
nodial and inserted in the upper part of the receptacle ; anthers 2-valved, 
of the 2 outer whorls introrse, of the third (if fertile) extrorse or 
subextrorse; filaments of the 2 outer whorls broad, much shorter to 
somewhat longer than the anthers, more or less papillose to villous, of 
the third whor! similarly hairy, much more slender, with a large gland 
at each side; glands either adnate to the very base or up to or beyond 
the middle of the filament, very rarely (7. ugandensis) fused with the 
receptacle and lining it as a fleshy disk; staminodes (of the third whorl 
if barren) usually reduced to the filaments and glands, of the fourth 
whorl usually representing reduced anthers, sessile or subsessile, tri- 
angular, subcordate or subhastate, rarely reduced to rudimentary 
filaments. Ovary sessile, more or less immersed in the receptacle, 
attenuated into the slender style; stigma small. Fruit oblong, borne 
on the slightly thickened or sometimes obconical pedicels; pericarp 
crustaceous. Seed with a delicate testa, adnate to the pericarp; coty- 
ledons large, plano-convex.—Trees or shrubs, glabrous with the exception 
of the leaf-buds, and usually also the inflorescences. Leaves alternate, 
rarely subopposite, penninerved. Flowers small, greenish, in some- 
times large and many-flowered axillary or subterminal panicles, with 
small boat-shaped early deciduous bracts. 
About 21 species, mostly in West Africa, 
