Tylostemon. | CXVI. LAURINEH (STAPF), 185 
filiform, the latter } lin. long. Perianth broad campanulate-turbinate, 
slightly over 1 lin. long, finely pubescent without, glabrous within ; 
receptacle less than 4 the length of the perianth ; segments obtuse, outer 
rotundate-ovate, inner narrower, more or less oblong-ovate. Stamens 
villous on the back with the exception of the broad tip of the connective, 
glabrous in front; outer staminodes clavate, villous except at the 
thickened tip with a stout gland on each side of the base, inner lanceo- 
late to ovate-quadrate, thin, more or less hairy on the back, } lin. long. 
Ovary glabrous, narrowed upwards with a very short style. Fruit 
oblong, shortly and obliquely apiculate, not quite 1 in. long and less 
than 4-in. in diam.; pericarp faintly striate, thin. Testa delicately 
membranous, almost entirely adnate to the pericarp. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 2855! 3562! 
Imperfectly known species. 
21. 'T.. crassifolius, Zngl. Jahrb. xxvi. 390. <A tree 60-120 
7. high, with a long smooth trunk and hard yellowish-brown wood ; 
branchlets short, drying blackish; leaf-buds fulvo-pubescent. Leaves 
oblong, at both ends shortly acute, to subobtuse, 4-6 in. long, 14-2 
in. broad, coriaceous, drying dark greyish-brown, dull, glabrous ; mid- 
rib flat above, raised and rounded below, moderately slender ; lateral 
nerves 7—9 on each side, indistinctly looping, like the loose reticulation 
slightly raised on both sides; petiole up to 5 lin. long, shallowly chan- 
nelled. Inflorescences and flowers unknown. Fruiting panicles axillary, 
Shorter than the ‘leaves; branches spreading; pedicels 2 lin. long, 
thickened upwards. Fruit oblong, attenuated below, up to 1 in. long, 
4 lin. in diam. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Johann-Albrechtshohe, 1000 ft., Staudt, 505! 
3. HYPODAPHNIS, Stapf. 
Flowers dicecious. Perianth herbaceous, 6-partite to the base; 
segments subequal, deciduous (?). Male: Perfect stamens 6 in 3 
whorls, staminodes 0; anthers 4-valved, valves collateral, of the 2 
outer whorls introrse, of the third extrorse; filaments slender, linear ; 
. Stamina] glands 8, large, inserted below the filaments of the second 
whorl and embracing the bases of their filaments. Ovary inferior, 
turbinate; style cylindric, rudimentary; ovule present, but small, 
not developing. Female: Stamens as in the male, but smaller, barren 
with imperfect anther-cells. Ovary inferior as in the male, but style 
nearly as long as the stamens with a subdiscoid stigma; ovule large, 
developing. Fruit unknown.—Tree. Leaves alternate, penninerved, 
coriaceous. Flowers small in subterminal, many-flowered panicles. 
Species 1, in West Africa, 
1. H. Zenkeri, Stapf. A shrub or tree, 20-30 ft. high, with 
densely leafy branches ;.all the young parts densely and finely fulvo- 
