Tylostemon. | CXVI. LAURINE& (STAPF). 179 
8. T. longipes, Stapf. A tree, 20 ft. high, glabrous with the 
exception of the fulvous-velvety leaf-buds; branches drying greenish- 
brown, Leaves oblong to elliptic-oblong, abruptly and shortly acuminate, 
obtuse or shortly acute at the base, 4-6 in. long, 2-24 in. broad, 
coriaceous, glabrous, drying brownish-green ; midrib flat or slightly con- 
cave above, prominent below; lateral nerves 6-7 on each side, obliquely 
ascending, indistinctly looping, like the loose reticulation slightly raised 
on both sides; petioles 4—5 lin, long, channelled above. Panicles sub- 
terminal and also from last year’s wood, very lax, subdivaricate, about 
4 in. long and wide, glabrous; peduncles short; branches subopposite 
{particularly the lower) or alternate, very slender; bracts very early 
deciduous (not seen); pedicels finely filiform, 1-3} lin. long. Perianth 
depressed hemispheric when quite open, up to 14 lin. high, quite glabrous 
except for the inner segments, which are more or less minutely pubescent 
towards the tip and ciliolate; receptacle less than 4 the length of the 
perianth ; segments rotundate. Introrse stamens with villous filaments, 
distinctly longer than the anthers and at least as broad, extrorse with 
narrower villous filaments, more than twice the length of the anther, 
and large sessile glands at each side of the base ; staminodes subhastate, 
acuminate, villous without, glabrous within. Ovary glabrous, as long 
as the slender style.—Beilschmiedia elata, Scott-Elliot in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xxx. 96, partly. 
Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Mann, 2255 (partly)! 22554! 
9. T’. cinnamomeus, Stapf. Branchesslender ; the young drying 
cinnamon-colour, the old dark greyish-brown; leaf-buds finely fulvous- 
tomentellous. Leaves oblong to oblanceolate-oblong, acuminate, acute 
or rarely obtuse at the base, 4-6 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, thinly 
coriaceous, drying brown to cinnamon-colour, glabrous; midrib slender, 
rather flat above; lateral nerves 8-10 on each side, the lower running 
out along the margin, the upper looping, like the loose reticulation 
faintly raised; petiole up to 2 lin. long, channelled above. Panicles 
subterminal, 3-1 in. long and wide, dense; branches up to more than 
% in. long, like the branchlets and pedicels filiform, very finely fulvo- 
pubescent all over; bracts boat-shaped, 1 lin. long, early deciduous; 
pedicels up to almost 1 lin. long, mostly much shorter. Perianth 
broad-turbinate, 3- or 4-merous, not quite 1 lin. long, finely greyish- 
brown pubescent without; receptacle 4 the length of the perianth or 
nearly so; segments broad-ovate, ciliolate. Introrse stamens with the 
filaments longer and narrower below than the very short anthers and 
densely villous on the back, glabrous in front except at the edges; 
extrorse anthers with linear more or less papillose-villous filaments and 
a large gland on each side of the base; staminodes rather thin, lanceolate- 
triangular, acuminate, villous on the outer side. Ovary glabrous, as 
long as the slender style. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 28553 
10. T. batangensis, Zngl. Jahrb, xxvi. 390. A tree with pale 
greyish bark, young branches drying greenish; leaf-buds fulvous- 
