Tylosteman. | CXVI, LAURINE# (STAPF). vies 
up to 13 lin. long, filiform. Perianth hemispheric, up to 1 lin. long, 
glabrous except the ciliolate margins ; receptacle about 4 the length 
of the perianth, rather thick-walled, glabrous within ; segments rotun- 
date. Introrse stamens with very short obovate-quadrate filaments, 
slightly hairy on the back and bearded laterally at the base of the 
anthers, extrorse narrower, glabrous except for a tuft of hairs on the 
front of the filament, with a large roundish gland at each side of the 
base; staminodes ovate-lanceolate, villous on the back. Ovary glabrous. 
Young fruits oblong, apiculate.——Oreodaphne ? minutiflora, Meisn. in 
DC. Prodr. xv. i. 130. <Afrodaphne minutiflora, Stapf in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xxxvii. 111. Beilschmiedia, Benth. et Hook. f, Gen. Pl. ili. 158. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon River, Wann! 
5. T’. grandifolius, Stapf. Branches stout, drying dull brown; 
leaf-buds rather large, acuminate, very finely velvety. Leaves oblanceo- 
late-oblong, very shortly and acutely acuminate, gradually attenuated 
at the base, 6-10 in. long, 3-34 in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib 
acutely and shallowly channelled above, very prominent below; lateral 
nerves 6—7 on each side, very oblique, running out along the margin, 
slightly sunk above, prominent below, reticulation very loose, raised on 
both sides, particularly below; petiole very stout, rugose, slightly 
channelled above. Panicles subterminal, very many-flowered, up to 
5 in. by 3 in., very minutely fulvous-tomentellous all over; peduncle 
short, like the rhachis more or less compressed; lower branches 2 in. 
long, sometimes spreading, undivided up to }-1 in.; ultimate branch- 
lets and pedicels short, the latter rarely over 1 lin. long; bracts boat- 
shaped, apiculate, up to 3 lin. long, deciduous. Perianth campanulate, 
up to over 14 lin. long, very finely downy without; receptacle 3} to % 
the length of the perianth, thick-walled; segments ovate, the inner 
broader, almost rotundate. Introrse stamens with papillose filaments 
about as long as the short anthers, slightly narrower towards the base ; 
extrorse stamens with densely tomentellous sublinear filaments and a 
large gland at each side of the base ; staminodes subcordate-triangular, 
pubescent on the outer side. Ovary gradually tapering into a style of 
equal length.—Afrodaphne grandifolia, Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
Xxxvil. 111. Cryptocarya? grandifolia, Engl. ex Stapf, l.c. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 2250! 22504! 
6. T. Staudtii, Stapf. A shrub. Branchlets very minutely rusty- 
pubescent when quite young. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute 
or shortly acuminate, acute at the base, 6-9 in. long, 2$~3 in. broad, 
thinly coriaceous, glabrous, drying dull greenish-brown; midrib flat 
above, moderately raised below; lateral nerves 7-8 on each side, 
ascending, running into a submarginal nerve, like the loose reticulation 
more raised below than above; petiole about 4 lin. long. Panicle 
many-flowered, up to 3 in. long, not much over 1 in. wide, rathe 
contracted, sparingly and very finely pubescent ; peduncle short ; lower 
branches about 1 in. long, divided from low down; bracts fulvyous. 
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