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the calyx ; a short aborted branch is present at the base of the style. 
Syncarp oblong-cylindrical, greenish to yellowish, but little juicy. 
Achene strongly compressed, lenticular, a little over 1 lin. long, 
bearing the withered style-—Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 268; Engl. Pfl. Ost- 
Afr. C. 160, Monogr. Morac. Afr. 3 and in Mildbraed Wiss. Ergebn. 
Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr.-Exped. 1907-8, ii. 181; Hiern in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. i. 1026; De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me 
sér. i. 49 and Reliq. Dewevr. 214; De Wild. Etudes FI. Bas- et Moyen- 
Congo, ili. 63; Pl. Thonner. Congol. ii. 298, and Compagn. Kasai, 278. 
C. tenuifolia, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 139 and Monogr. Morac. Afr. 
4; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 1026. C. alba, A. Chev. in Bull. 
Soc. Bot. Fr. lviii. Mém. viii. 209. Morus sp., Welw. Synopse Explic. 
8and 9. M. excelsa, Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 69, t. 23. 
Maclura (2) excelsa, Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 231. Mulicia africana, 
Sim, For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 97, t. 72. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Freetown, Dalziel, 966! Gold Coast : 
Kwaha Hills, Johnson, 910! Ivory Coast : Sassandra, Chevalier, 17942! Togo: 
near Lome, Warnecke, 471! Bismarckburg, Biittner, 697. Dahomey : Kowandeé, 
Chevalier, 24236 ; Savalou between Gouka and Banté, Chevalier, 23728. Northern 
Nigeria: Agaie, Yates, 20! Southern Nigeria: Lagos; Igayo, Barter, 3330! 
Moloney! Cameroons: Ambas Bay, Mann, 705! Johann Albrechtshohe, about 
1300 ft., Staudt, 743; Bipinde, Zenker, 3297! : s 
Nile Land. Niamniam: on the Assika River, Schweinfurth, 3244! British 
East Africa : Coast region, Webber, 433! Rodungs district on the Tana about 
2300 ft., Stuhlmann, 8916. Uganda: various localities, Diimmer, 862! Brown, 
354! Bagshawe, 734! Dawe, 476! 689! Stuhlmann, 1246, 1247, 1337. : 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas: Fazenda do Monte Caffé, Welwitsch, 
1560! 1561! Quintas 154! Gaboon, Klaine, 1339! Angola: Golungo Alto ; 
Queta Mountains, and near Sange, Welwitsch, 1559 ! : 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Kifuku near Irumu, Mildbraed, 2889! 
Nala, Seret, 763; Madibi, Sapin: Kisantu, Gillet, 231. Bolobo, Lukolela, 
Dewévre, 755 ; Bumba, Dewévre, 890a. : : 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Lyne, 6! German East Africa: Neuwied, 
Conradi, 356! Usambara ; Nderema, 3000 ft., Volkens ; Amani, Warnecke, 325 ! 
Uluguru, Stuhlmann, 8685 ! 
A valuable timber tree ; the wood is whitish, soon becoming pale bay in colour, 
durable and easy to work. : 
The specimens on which Chevalier bases his new species C. alba are, according 
to his description, young trees without flower or fruit ; the description of the 
leaves suggests young plants of C. excelsa. 
Doubtful Species. 
2. C. regia, A. Chev. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. viii. Mém. viii. 209. A 
very large tree, 100 to 150 ft. high, with a trunk 5-6} ft. in diam., 
with the habit of C. excelsa, from which it differs in having broadly 
cordate leaves with a deeply cordate base, spreading auricles, and 6-8 
secondary nerves on each side of the midrib. Flowers and fruit are 
not described. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea : Fouta-Djalon, between Mamou and Timbo, 
Chevalier, 12464 bis, 12505 bis. Ivory Coast: Zaranou, Chevalier, 17627. 
Dahomey : Somba, Koubougou, Chevalier, 24161 ; Kouandé, Chevalier, 24235. 
No specimen seen. i 
