14 OXXIII. ULMACE (Rendle). [Chetacme. 
kénigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, iii. 24. Bosqueia spinosa, Engl. in Engl. 
Jahrb. xl. 548 and li. 439. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Kwase, Chipp, 575! Cameroons: Yaunde, 
2500 ft., Zenker, 551! Zenker & Staudt, 430! Sanaga, Zenker, 1450! 
Nile Land. Niamniam, Schweinfurth, 2828! Uganda: Entebbe, Bagshawe, 
747! British East Africa : Mynyu, Elliott, 347 ! 
Lower Guinea. Annobon island, Mildbraed, 6527! 6750! Angola: 
Cazengo; Granja de 8S. Luiz, Gossweiler, 4701! 4763! 5156! 5161! Am- 
baca ; by streams near Cabinda, Welwitsch, 474! Pungo Anconp i Cabondo 
and near Luxillo, Welwitsch, 473 ! Bumbo ; Chella Mountains at about 3000 ft., 
Welwitsch, 472! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: bank of the Lualaba near Nyangwe, Pogge, 
692! 
Mozamb. Distr. Kilimanjaro: Majame, 3300 ft., Volkens, 2042! German 
East Africa : West Ukerewe, Uhlig, V. 73. 
(?) Var. longifolia, Engl. ex De Wild. & Durand, Reliq. Dewevr. 214 (sub 
C. aristata, Planch.). ‘“ Leaves longer, oblique oblong-lanceolate.”—Th. & Hél. 
Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 501. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: near Nyangwe, Dewévre, 903! 965! 
Distinguished from the South African CO. aristata, Planch., by the much smaller 
somewhat ellipsoidal fruit. That of C. aristata is depressed-globose and }-§ in. 
in diameter. 
2. C. serrata, Engl. Notizbl. kénigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, iii. 24. A 
shrub, sometimes becoming arborescent; branchlets flexuous, 
spinose as in the previous species, hirtellous when young, ultimately 
glabrous, somewhat densely leaved. Leaves very shortly petioled, 
coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, mucronulate, margin acutely serrate, 
pale green and shining above, 2-3 in. long, 3-1} in. wide; lateral 
nerves several, thin, prominulous’ beneath as are the reticulate 
veins ; petiole densely hairy. 
Lower Guinea. Annobon Island, Mildbraed, 6559 ! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Usambara, on dry hills, Holst, 505 ! 
Also in South Africa, 
Described from barren leaf-shoots. 
Orper CXXIII4. BARBEYACEZE. 
(By A. B. Renpte.) 
Flowers dicecious, regular, apetalous. Male flower: Perianth 
deeply 3-4-fid; segments valvate, calycine. Stamens 6 to 9; fila- 
ments very short ; anthers erect in bud, oblong-linear, 2-celled, cells 
parallel, dehiscing longitudinally, connective apiculate ; pollen-grains 
round, smooth ; no rudiment of an ovary present. Female flower: 
