180 CXVI. LAURINE® (STAPF). Tylostemor. 
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velvety. Leaves oblong to oblong-elliptic, acuminate, acute at the 
base, 24-4 in. long, 1-13 in. broad,:thinly coriaceous, glabrous, drying 
almost copper-red, particularly below; midrib slender, flat above, 
prominent and rather acute below; lateral nerves 6-8 on each side, 
ascending, looping, very slender, like the lax reticulation slightly pro- 
minent below ; petiole slender, 4-5 lin. long. Inflorescences and flowers 
unknown. Fruiting panicles lateral and subterminal, spreading, up to 
21 in. long; pedicels up to 3 lin. long, thickened upwards. Fruit 
obliquely oblong, mostly slightly curved, sometimes obscurely and 
obtusely acuminate, up to 1 in, long, } in, in diam. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Batanga, in dry forests, Dinklage, 1375! 
‘11. T. nitidus, Stapf. An arborescent shrub, 15-25 ft. high, with 
slender densely leafy branchlets, drying brown; leaf-buds adpressedly 
fulvous-pubescent. Leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, shortly 
acuminate, rarely subobtuse, subacute at the base, up to 4 in. long and 
11 in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, more or less shining above; midrib 
very slender and rather flat above, somewhat raised below; lateral 
nerves 8-10 on each side, looping some distance from the margin, like 
the loose reticulation faintly raised, particularly below; petiole finely 
channelled above, 3-4 lin. long. Panicles axillary, numerous, 1-1? in. 
long (including the short peduncle), up to over 1 in. broad, finely and 
densely rufo-pubescent all over; branches ascending, 4-5 lin. long; 
branchlets and pedicels very short, the latter not quite } lin. long. 
Perianth broad-turbinate, ? lin. high, up to 1} lin. in diam., finely 
pubescent without; receptacle 4 the length of the perianth, glabrous 
within ; segments rotundate, ciliolate. Introrse stamens with more or 
less hairy filaments, about as long as the very short anthers, but 
narrower ; extrorse anthers with linear loosely hairy filaments and a 
large roundish gland on each side of the base; staminodes subhastate, 
acute, glabrous within. Ovary glabrous, suddenly contracted into @ 
slender, slightly longer style—Beilschmiedia nitida, Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 
a , t.9, fig. E. Afrodaphne nitida, Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvil- 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Lolodorf, in shady, moist places, 1600 ft.» 
Staudt, 104! 106! 
12. T. Dinklagei, Zngi. Jahrb. xxvi. 389. A tree or shrub 
with slender branches, young ones drying greenish-brown, old covered 
with pale bark; leaf-buds finely and adpressedly pubescent. Leaves 
elliptic- to lanceolate-oblong, gradually contracted into an acute 
rather long acumen, obtuse at the base, 13-3 in, long, 1-14 in. broad, 
thinly coriaceous, drying brown, glabrous; midrib very slender, rather 
flat above, slightly raised below; lateral nerves 6-8 on each side, 
obliquely spreading, looping, fine, raised on both sides, reticulation 
loose, faintly raised below, obscure above ; petiole 3-5 lin. long, slender, 
channelled above. . Panicles axillary, 2-24 in. long, finely pubescent 5. 
peduncle more than } in. long, more or less compressed ; lower branches 
