178 CXVI. LAURINEE (STAPF). [ Z'ylostemon. 
tomentellous dorsally, 2-3 lin. long, early deciduous; pedicels filiform, 
not much over } lin. long. Perianth wide-campanulate, 14 lin. long, 
loosely and minutely pubescent ; receptacle 4 the length of the perianth, 
but well defined; segments oblong, very obtuse, ciliolate. Introrse 
stamens with broad-linear filaments, very sparingly hairy, almost twice 
the length of the anthers, extrorse narrower, rather more hairy, with a 
large gland at each side of the base; staminodes subhastate, acuminate, 
hairy without. Ovary glabrous, almost as long as the slender style.— 
Beilschmiedia Staudtii, Eng). Jahrb. xxvi. 387, t. 9, fig. D. Afrodaphne 
Staudtii, Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 111. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Johann-Albrechtshdhe, Staudt, 857! 
7. 'T. Mannii, Stapf. <A tree, about 20 ft. high; branches 
moderately stout, the old grey, the young drying greenish-brown, 
striate, somewhat compressed upwards; leaf-buds adpressedly greyish 
to fulvous-pubescent. Leaves lanceolate, oblanceolate or oblong, acute 
or acuminate (acumen over 4 in. long, attenuated from a broader base), 
acute (rarely subobtuse) at the base, 4—9 in. long, 14-4 in. broad, thinly 
coriaceous, drying greenish-brown; midrib flat or nearly so above, 
sometimes rather broad, prominent and rounded below ; lateral nerves 
7-10 on each side, ascending, running out along the margin, fine 
above, stouter beneath, like the loose reticulation raised on both sides ; 
petiole 4-3} in. long, more or less channelled above. Panicles sub- 
terminal and on short sparingly leafy lateral branches, 2-6 in. long, 
14-4 in. broad, very sparingly pubescent or glabrous; peduncle short, 
like the rhachis more or less compressed; lower branches spreading, 
1-4 in. long, loosely but copiously divided above the lower }4 or 3; 
ultimate branchlets and pedicels filiform, the latter usually not exceed- 
ing 1 lin. (rarely 2 lin.) long; bracts small and very early deciduous. 
Perianth broad-turbinate to hemispheric, up to almost 14 lin. long, 
glabrous except for the ciliolate margins or sparingly and minutely 
pubescent outside; receptacle }-2 the length of the perianth or nearly 
so; lobes broad-ovate or rotundate. Introrse stamens with the filaments 
somewhat longer than the short anthers and hairy along the edges and 
the middle line and on their back; extrorse anthers with linear, more or 
less hairy filaments and a large roundish gland on each side of their 
base ; staminodes ovate to subhastate, acuminate or apiculate, hairy on 
the outer side. Ovary glabrous, gradually passing into a style of about 
equal length. Fruit oblong, stipitate, over 14 in. long, about 3 in. in 
diam., obtuse, brown, somewhat shining; stipes solid, 3lin.long. Seed 
over 1 in. long.—Oreodaphne ? Mannii, Meisn. in DC. Prodr, xv. i. 130. 
Beilschmiedia sp., Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 152,158. 2B. elata, 
Scott-Elliot in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 96 (excl. Mann, 2255a). Afro- 
daphne Mannii and A. elata, Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soe. xxxvii. 111. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Musaia, Falaba, Scott-Elliot, 5125! 
Mofari, Scarcies River, Scott-Elliot, 4400! Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 1695! 
2609! 3167! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: by the Gaboon River, Mann ! 
