D5 ye CXVIIl. THYMELEACEE (PEARSON). | Peddiea. 
Anthers short, linear-ovate. Style stout, rather longer than the ovary ; 
stigma broad, cup-shaped ; hypogynous dise cup-shaped, not lobed, with 
a crenulate villous margin, about 4 as high as the ovary. Fruit not seen. 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Mount Malosa, 4000— 
6000 ft., Whyte ! 
8. P. Zenkeri, Gilg in Hngl. Jahrb. xix. 256. A tree (? shrub). 
Leaves membranous, shortly petioled, elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, 
44-54 in. long, 14-14 in. broad; primary lateral nerves ascending, 
much-branched, prominent. Umbel terminal, 6—10-flowered, glabrous ; 
peduncle about 4 in. long, with numerous prominent bract-scars near 
the base; bracts crowded, linear-oblong, finely pubescent on the margin, 
caducous, 4—} in. long, about 2 lin. broad. Flowers 4-merous; pedicels 
about }+in. long. Calyx-tube glabrous, 4 in. long; lobes oblong or 
triangular, rounded or truncate at the apex, pubescent at the apex, 
otherwise glabrous, erect or spreading during flowering, about 3 lin. long. 
Anthers oblong. Ovary deeply furrowed at the base; style stout, 
shorter than the ovary ; stigma capitate; hypogynous disc cup-shaped, 
irregularly lobed, pubescent, } lin. high. Fruit subglobose, narrowed 
towards the apex, 1-celled, containing 2 seeds, 5 lin. long, 4 lin. broad. 
Seed ovoid-acuminate, flattened along one face, 4 lin. long. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Yaunde, 2600 ft., Zenker, 155 ! 
10. OCTOLEPIS, Oliver; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 201. 
Calyx-tube 4- or 5-partite; lobes imbricate. Petals 8 or 10 in pairs 
at the base of and opposite to the calyx-lobes, entire. Stamens 8 or 10, 
hypogynous or slightly perigynous, alternating with the petals; fila- 
ments free, subulate ; anthers small, ovate or ovate-cordate, 2-celled, 
dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary superior, sessile, ovoid, 4- or 5-celled ; 
style short, terminal; stigma small, dilated, papillose. Ovule solitary 
in each cell, pendulous. Fruit a 4-seeded loculicidal erect leathery cap- 
sule. Seed exalbuminous, spindle-shaped, with a thin leathery testa pro- 
longed at the lower end into a thick corky projection.—Small trees 
or shrubs with silky-fibrous inner bark. Leaves alternate. Flowers 
axillary, white-—Makokoa, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 619. 
Species 5, all in West Tropical Africa. 
Flower 5-merous 
Flower 4-merous. 
Leaves 23~7 in. long. 
Primary lateral nerves 8-9; leaves rarely above 
4 in. long 
° . ° ° - lL. O. decalepis. 
2. O. nodosericea. 
Primary lateral nerves 10-14; leaves always above 
4 in. long. 
Young branches glabrous : : . 3. O. Dinklager. 
Young branches pubescent or puberulous . - 4 O, Casearia. 
Leaves 8-12 in. long. 
Leaves shortly and abruptly acuminate . “= - 4 O. Casearia. 
Leaves long-acuminate : ‘. . . 5. O. macrophylla. 
