184 CXVI. LAURINEE (STAPF). | Zylostemon. 
and then sometimes gathered into a leafy compound panicle, 14-2 in. 
long, all parts like the flowers greyish-fulvous puberulous; peduncle 
very short ; bracts boat-shaped, ovate, 3-4 lin. long; pedicels {—-} lin. 
long. Perianth globose-turbinate, } lin. to 1lin. long; receptacle 3 the 
length of the perianth; lobes rotundate-ovate. Stamens of the first 
and second whorl with very short and broad obovate hairy filaments ; 
staminodes of the third whorl conical, hairy except at the tip, with a 
stout roundish gland on each side, of the fourth order ovate, acute, 
hairy without, rather thin. Ovary glabrous; style not exceeding the 
perianth.—Beilschmiedia obscura, Engl. ex Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soe. 
Xxxvil. 112. Afrodaphne obscura, Stapf, l.c. (name only). 
' Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 2117! 2612! Gaboon (?) 
Como, by streams, Bates, 845! 
19. T. papyraceus, Stapf. Branches pubescent when young, 
soon glabrescent, drying dark brown; leaf-buds reddish tomentose, 
acuminate. Leaves elliptic-oblong, subobtuse or subacuminate, rounded 
at the base, 4-8 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, papery, drying{dull greenish- 
brown above, reddish-brown below, glabrous; midrib flat or shallowly 
channelled above, much raised below ; lateral nerves 9-11 on each side, 
rather straight, then curved towards the margin, and looping close to it, 
faintly sunk above, raised below, reticulation loose, slightly raised on 
both sides ; petiole rather stout, faintly channelled above, 3—4 lin. long. 
Panicle slender, up to 2 in. long, including the peduncle (over 1 in. 
long), fulvo-pubescent all over; bracts ovate, acute, up to 2 lin. long, 
densely fulvo-tomentose; branchlets and pedicels filiform, the latter 
4-3 lin. long. Perianth turbinate, not quite 1 lin. long, finely and 
minutely fulvo-puberulous ; receptacle 2 the length of the perianth; 
segments broad-ovate, obtuse, more or less pubescent within. Stamens 
sparingly and minutely papillose-pubescent on the back and below 
the anthers in front; filaments shorter than the anthers, those of the 
third whorl with rudimentary anthers forming a subrhomboid head and 
a stout gland on each side; staminodes of the fourth whorl minute, 
cylindric, hairy. Ovary papillose-pubescent with a short style. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 2065! 
20. ‘T.. membranaceus, Stapf. Branches slender, glabrous, 
drying brown or greenish; terminal bud slender, very finely fulvous- 
pubescent. Leaves oblong or oblanceolate, acuminate (acumen often 
very narrow, gradually attenuate at the base), about 4 in. long and up 
to 1} in. broad, membranous to subcoriaceous, glabrous, concolorous, 
drying a light greenish-brown; midrib slender, flat or faintly concave 
above, slender, raised below; lateral nerves about 7 on each side, 
obliquely ascending, more or less looping or running out into an indis- 
tinct submarginal nerve, like the loose reticulation slightly raised on 
voth sides; petiole 2-3 lin. long, channelled. Panicles from the axils 
of the upper (sometimes arrested and early deciduous) leaves, very 
slender, 1-1} in. long, finely fulvo-pubescent ; branchlets and pedicels 
