Tylostemon. | CXVI, LAURINEX (STAPF). 181 
spreading, up to 1] in. long, loosely flowered; ultimate branchlets and 
pedicels filiform, the latter up to 1 lin. long, clavate in fruit. Perianth 
broad-turbinate, scarcely 14 lin. long, very minutely pubescent without, 
greenish ; receptacle 4 the length of the perianth or almost so, sparingly 
and minutely hairy within; segments ovate to broad ovate-oblong, very 
sparingly and minutely hairy upwards. Introrse stamens with fila- 
ments as long as and narrower than the anthers and papillose along 
the edges and middle front line; extrorse anthers with slender papillose 
filaments and a large gland on each side; staminodes filiform, hairy. 
Ovary glabrous, very gradually passing into the slender style. Fruit 
oblong, about 1 in. long, not quite } in. in diam. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Batanga, in dry, open forests, Dinklage, 1140! 
13. T. ugandensis, Stapf. A shrub; old branches with a rough 
greyish bark, young ones smooth, drying blackish; leaf-buds fulvous, 
silky-velvety. Leaves elliptic, obtuse to obscurely acuminate, obtuse to 
rounded at the base, 4-6 in. long, 2 to over 3 in. broad, coriaceous, 
glabrous, drying brown, very dark above; midrib flat above, rounded 
and moderately prominent below; lateral nerves 9-11 on each side, 
rather spreadingly oblique, indistinctly looping, like the reticulation 
faintly raised above, more so below; petiole 3-4 in. long, stout, shallowly 
ehannelled above. Panicles axillary, 1-3 in. long, 14-2 in. wide, finely 
rufo-puberulous all over; peduncle 4-1 in. long; lowest branches more 
or less spreading, undivided to 4 or 4 way up, then copiously branched, 
many-flowered ; ultimate branchlets.and pedicels subfiliform, the latter 
up to over 2 lin. long. Perianth greenish, very shallowly turbinate, 3- 
or 4-merous, very minutely fulvo- or rufo-puberulous, 14 to over 2 lin. 
in diam.; receptacle about 3 the length of the perianth, rather fleshy 
from the large adnate staminal glands, which dry a deep black, hairy 
at the base within; segments rotundate-ovate, minutely hairy inside. 
Introrse stamens subsessile, hairy on both sides; extrorse stamens with 
a villous filament about as long as the anther and a large gland on each 
side; staminodes very small, ovate, villous on the outer side. Ovary 
glabrous, as long as the style.—Beilschmiedia ugandensis, Rendle in 
Journ, Linn. Soc, xxxvii. 203. 
Nile Land. Uganda: shore of Victoria Nyanza, to the north of Bakova 
River, Bagshawe, 142! 
14. T. caudatus, Stapf. Branchlets drying blackish, Leaves 
oblong, caudate-acuminate (tips slender, to over 1 in. long), obtuse at 
the base, about 9 in. long, up to 33 in. broad, coriaceous, quite glabrous, 
concolorous, somewhat shining below, drying greenish-brown ; lateral 
nerves about 8 on each side, curved, looping within an additional sub- 
marginal nerve, reticulation of veins distinct on both sides; petioles 
3 lin. long, stout. Panicle lax, up to 8 in. long, finely fulvo-puberulous ; 
peduncle up to.3 in. long; bracts few, ovate, concave, deciduous, up to 
2 lin. long, fulvo-tomentellous; pedicels 1-2 lin. long. Perianth turbi- 
nate, 14-2 lin. long, fulvo-tomentellous without ; receptacle ? lin. high, 
