176 CXVI, LAURINE# (STAPF). | Z'ylostemon. 
latter 4 lin. long; bracts boat-shaped, subacute, 2 lin. long. Perianth 
(not quite open) globose-turbinate, up to ? lin. long, very finely puberulous 
without ; receptacle not quite half the length of the perianth ; segments 
rotundate. Introrse stamens with very short filaments, almost as broad 
as the anthers, bearded laterally below the anthers; extrorse stamens 
with very sparingly and minutely hairy filaments, with a large gland on 
each side of the base; staminodes subcordate-lanceolate. Ovary glab- 
rous, gradually passing into a style of equal length.— Beilschmiedia 
JSruticosa, Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 386, t. ix. fig. B. Afrodaphne fruticosa, 
Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 111. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Lolodorf, in the underwood of the primeval 
forest, 150-1600 ft., Staudt, 403! Bipinde, Morisei waterfall, at 250-350 ft., Zenker, 
1063! 
Engler distinguishes Zenker 1063 as a variety tetramera, characterised by 
tetramerous flowers. The flowers of Zenker 1063 which I examined were all 
trimerous. As the number of parts varies also in other species from 3 to 4, even in 
the same inflorescence, I have neglected Engler’s distinction. 
3. T.. Preussii, Stapf. A shrub with glabrous green branchlets. 
Leaves lanceolate, long-acuminate (acumen up to 10 lin. long), acute at 
the base, up to 10 in. by not quite 3 in., thin; lateral nerves 7-8 on 
each side, ascending ; petiole terete, deeply channelled, about 5 lin. long. 
Panicles as long as the leaves, very shortly rusty-pubescent, lax, with 
long slender branches; pedicels as long as the flowers or slightly longer. 
Perianth ? lin. in diam., wide-turbinate, hairy within and without ; 
segments ovate, under 3 lin. long, with long hairs at the base of the 
filaments. Extrorse stamens with a suborbicular 2-lobed gland on each 
side of the base; staminodes reduced to ovate glands. Ovary long- 
hairy, passing into a short conoid style.—Beilschmiedia Preussii, Engl. 
Jahrb, xxvi. 387, t. ix. fig. C. <Afrodaphne Preussti, Stapf in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xxxviii. 111. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: in open forest between Victoria and Bimbia, 
Preuss, 1272. 
4, T. minutiflorus, Stapf. Branches glabrous, drying greenish 
brown ; leaf-buds finely acuminate, fulvous-velvety. Leaves oblong, 
acuminate (acumen linear, to over 4 in. long), shortly acute or rounded 
at the base, 6 to almost 12 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, 
drying greenish brown, concolourous; midrib slightly convex (rarely 
flat) above, moderately raised below ; lateral nerves 8-10 on each side, 
very obliquely ascending, distinctly looping (at least towards the tips), 
with an additional submarginal nerve, like the loose reticulation raised 
on both sides; petioles 3-5 lin. long, stout, channelled above. Panicles 
terminal and axillary, up to more than 6 in. long and wide, very finely 
pubescent ail over, with the exception of the flowers; peduncle short or 
up to 2 in. long, slender; lower branches obliquely spreading, up to 
4 in. jong, undivided almost to the middle, then much divided and 
many-flowered ; bracts ovate, cymbiform, up to 3 lin. long, tomentose 
dorsally, deciduous ; pedicels }—-1 lin. long during flowering, at length 
