440 CXXI, BALANOPHOREE (BOTTING HEMSLEY). [ Zhonningia. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Aburi, Johnson, 521! 
The Talbot drawing numbered 475 is referred to this species. An unnumbered 
drawing of a specimen in fruit may be this or 7. sanguinea, 
5. T. sessilis, Lecomte in Journ. de Bot. x. 229-235, t. 1. Tuber 
1-4in. in diam. Rhizome solitary, hairy, 2-3 lin. in diam. Pedunceles 
none or very short, not scaly. Scales of the involucre multiseriate, 
glabrous, ovate, acute, outermost and innermost small, not more than 
a line long, intermediate 4-5 lin. long. Flower-heads spherical, about 
1 in. in diam., bisexual; receptacle subglobose, constricted at the base, 
7-8 lin.in diam. Male flowers relatively very few, in one or more series 
outside of the female flowers, destitute of a perianth (2), reduced to 
flattened clavate bodies 24 lin. long; anther-cells 4-8, linear, more or 
less curved, unequal in length, dehiscing longitudinally. Female flowers 
very numerous, 1-2 lin. long; perianth tubular, inflated, 4—5-lobed ; 
lobes deltoid, obtuse ; style clavate, papillose, about as long as the 
perianth ; ovary linear, almost equalling the perianth; ovule none, J, 
2 or 3 free embryo-sacs being formed in the tissue of the carpel. Fruit 
an achene crowned by the withered perianth. Seed without integument, 
reduced to albumen surrounding a nearly spherical embryo, seated in 
the centre of the upper part of the albumen. 
Lower Guinea. French Congo: humid forest on the River Loukamba, an 
affluent of the Kouilou, Lecomte. 
Description compiled from Professor Lecomte’s account of the plant, which is 
evidently allied to 7. angolensis, Hemsl., differing in the smaller flower-heads, 
relatively small male flowers and the much more highly developed perianth of the 
female flowers. 
6. T. angolensis, //emsl. Tuber not seen, Rhizomes branching, 
3-5 lin. thick, densely tomentose, bearing numerous, almost crowded 
flower-heads, Volva distinct, truncate or obscurely lobed. Peduncles 
4-1? in. long, numerous, contiguous, constricted below the flower-heads ; 
scales thick, ovate, 3-4 lin. long, subacute, very hairy on the covered 
surfaces. Scales of the involucre similar but larger and glabrous on 
both sides, longest 9-10 lin, long, intermediate scarious, mostly very 
broad at the base, abruptly acute, innermost very small, 1-3-toothed at 
the apex. Flower-heads spherical, 3-1} in. in diam., bisexual, “ rose- 
coloured” (Monteiro); receptacle hemispherical or almost spherical by 
constriction at the base. Male flowers in one or more cireumferentia’ 
series, 24-3} lin. long. Perianth of usually 3 linear acute one 
lobes, the free part 3-2 lin. long, the longest about half the length 0 
the staminal column. Anther-cells 1-5. Female flowers very numerous, 
1-1} lin. long ; ovary longer than the style.—* 7’. sanguinea,” Monteiro, 
Angola and the River Congo, i. 198. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Bembe, Monteiro! : 
It is quite probable that this may prove to be the same as 7. sessilis, Lecomte, 1 
spite of slight described differences in both male and female flowers. The length of 
peduncle varies considerably on the same rhizome and contiguous flower-heads. 
Although tubers are wanting, Monteiro’s specimens are otherwise excellent 
umple in other respects, and they are preserved in alcohol, 
and 
