Thaumatococcus.| ` CXXXIV. SCITAMINEE (BAKER). 321 
1. T. Danielli, Benth. Gen. Plant. iii. 652. Whole plant 5-10 ft. 
high. Rhizome wide-creeping. Leaves 2-3 to a tuft; petiole very 
long, stiffly erect, grooved down the face; blade broadly oblong, mode- 
rately firm, glabrous, 1-1} ft. long, rounded at the base. Spike nearly 
sessile, simple or forked, 3—4 in. long; bracts oblong-navicular, deci- 
duous, about 1 in. long; internodes very short. Flowers pale purple, 
as long as the bract; sepals } in. long. Fruit acutely trigonous, 
bright crimson, above 1 in. diam.—Phryniwm Daniellii, Bennett in 
Pharm. Journ. xiv. 161, with figure. Monostiche Danielli, Horan. 
Prodr, Scit. 18, t. 3. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Johnston! Ashanti: Assin-Yan-Coomassie, 
Cummins, 185! Lower Niger: Onitsa, Barter, 1546! Cameroons: Ambas Bay, 
Mann, 2145! Efulen, Bates, 396! 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island, Barter, 1990! Mann, 1153! Island of St. 
Thomas: near Trindade, Moller! Quintas ! 
10. PHRYNIUM, Willd.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 652. 
Sepals 3, oblong or lanceolate, free or adnate at the base to the 
corolla-tube. Corolla-tube cylindrical, longer or shorter than the calyx; 
lobes oblong. Staminodia united in a tube at the base; lip broad, 
transversely crested inside; staminiferous lobe linear, with the 1-celled 
anther adnate to one side. Ovary 3-celled ; cells 1-ovuled ` style adnate 
at the base to the staminal tube, hooked at the apex; stigma thickened, 
2-valved. Fruit globose; pericarp usually thick and indehiscent. 
Seeds 1-3, ovoid or oblong, with a short reflexed aril and horseshoe- 
shaped embryo.—Petiole long, subradical ; blade usually oblong. Inflo- 
rescence produced from the side of the petiole, capitate, spicate or 
panicled; bracts usually enclosing a pair of small inconspicuous 
flowers.— Phyllodes, Lour.; Schumann in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 440. 
Species 30, the others Tropical Asiatic. 
Acanlescent. Leaf long-petioled. 
Spike simple. 
Sepals 2 in. long . 1. P. holostachyum. 
Sepals 4 in. long . 2. P. coriscense. 
Spikes 1-3 3. P. brachystachyum. 
Spikes panicled. 
Flowers comparatively large. Si 
Apical callus of petiole 1-1} in. long . - . A P. Hensii. 
Apical callus of petiole 2-3 in. long. 
Capsule ZZ in. diam. 
Branches of panicle velvety. s . 5. P. velutinum. 
Branches of panicle glabrous. 
Bracts ovate ‘ 6. P. macrophyllum. 
Bracts oblong. ; 
Bracts 4 in. long 7. P. Benthami. 
Bracts # in. long 8. P. adenocarpum. 
Capsule 1 in. diam. 9. P. oxycarpum. 
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