Tylostemon. | CXVI. LAURINEX (STAPF). 17 
Or 
Perianth sparingly and minutely pubescent, drying 
black, not quite 1 lin. long i : : . 16. 7. Zenkeri. 
Panicles 1-2 in. long, on short peduncles. 
Leaves distinctly coriaceous. 
Leaves 5-9 in. by 14-4 in., drying brown . . 17. T. gaboonensis. 
Leaves 3-5 in. by 13-23 in., drying dark and 
dull brown (fuscous) : - - 18, Z. obseurus, 
Leaves papery or almost membranous. 
Leaves papery, elliptic-oblong, rounded at the 
base ; ovary pubescent . ; : ‘ . 19. 7. papyraceus. 
Leaves almost membranous, gradually attenuate at 
the base; ovary glabrous . < : . 20. 7. membranaceus, 
1. 'T. sessilifolius, Stapf. Branches stout, drying grey, glabrous. 
Leaves sessile, oblanceolate-oblong, acuminate (acumen slender and up 
to 1 in. long), narrowed from above the middle towards the base, cor- 
date with rounded auricles, up to 15 in. long and 4} in. broad, papery, 
glabrous, drying fuscous-brown, slightly shining; midrib flat or nearly 
so and moderately broad above, raised and rather narrow below; 
lateral nerves about 12 on each side, ascending, the lower much more 
oblique than the upper, not or indistinctly looping, like the loose 
elegant reticulation raised on both sides. Panicle over 3 in. by 2 in., 
rather slender, finely pubescent in the upper part; peduncle short; 
lower branches distant, up to 2 in. long, undivided up to half-way, 
much divided and many-flowered higher up; ultimate branchlets and 
pedicels very short, the latter filiform, under 1 lin. long. Perianth 
(not quite open) subglobose-turbinate, 2 lin. long, very finely pubescent 
without; receptacle about half the length of the perianth; segments 
rotundate. Introrse stamens with filaments as long and broad as the 
short anthers, minutely and sparingly hairy at the base of the anthers 
and along the middle line of the filament ; extrorse stamens with a hairy 
tip to the connective and a roundish large gland at each side of the base 
of the filament ; staminodes triangular. Ovary glabrous.—Afrodaphne 
sessilifolia, Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii.111. Beilschmiedia sessili- 
Jolia, Engl. ex Stapf, 1.c. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 2256! 
2. 'T. fruticosus, Stapf. A shrub, 5 ft. high, with greyish or 
green branches; leaf-buds minutely fulvo-tomentose. Leaves elliptic- 
oblong, acuminate (acumen up to 1 in. long), obtuse at the base, 8-12 
in, long, 3-5 in. broad, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, drying brown, 
slightly shining; midrib rather broad, flat or slightly convex above, pro- 
minent and rounded underneath ; Jateral nerves 7—9 on each side, curved, 
intermediate 1-2 in. apart, the lower more oblique than the upper 
spreading, sunk above, raised below, loose reticulation raised on both 
sides ; petiole stout, 3 lin. long, narrowly channelled above. Panicles 
3-4 in. long, up to 24 in. wide, slender, finely fulvo-pubescent all over ; 
peduncle 4-1} in. long ; lowest branches up to more than 1 in. long, dis- 
tant, undivided in the lower third or half, then copiously divided and 
many-flowered ; ultimate branchlets and pedicels filiform, short, the 
