218 OXXIIIc. MORACEH (Hutchinson). | Bosqueia. 
apiculate. Female flower solitary and sunk in the middle of the 
receptacle. Perianth 0. Style exserted, 2-3-lobed; ovule pendu- 
lous from the apex of the cell. Fruit inferior ; pericarp composed 
of the adnate persistent receptacle; pyrene rhomboid, 4-angled, 
beaked by the persistent style. Mature seed not seen.—Trees. 
Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, entire, coriaceous, penninerved ; 
stipules intrapetiolar, caducous. Receptacles solitary in the leaf- 
axils, subsessile or shortly pedunculate, margin shortly lobed. 
A genus of 5 species, two from Madagascar, one from the Seychelles, and two 
in Tropical Africa. 
Anthers mucronate, ? lin. long, as long as the fila- : 
ments; leaves mostly somewhat obovate... 1. B. angolensis. 
Anthers not mucronate, scarcely |} lin. long, very 
many times shorter than the filaments ; leaves 
mostly elliptic... Ae ae a see oe bs OUETOR: 
1. B. angolensis, Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 271. A tree 20-50 ft. 
high or sometimes more, often with the trunk quite bare of branches 
up to nearly half its height ; head loosely pyramidal ; branches and 
branchlets spreading; young branchlets terete, ashy-grey when 
dry, glabrous. Leaves elliptic or slightly obovate-elliptic, vety 
shortly cuneate at the base, obtusely acuminate, 2-64 in. long, 
1-3 in. broad, entire, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, 
shining and darker above, pale beneath ; midrib prominent on both 
surfaces, tapering towards the apex ; lateral nerves about 7 on each 
side of the midrib, nearly equally prominent on both surfaces, very 
arcuate, looped ; veins lax, distinct ; petiole 4-5 lin. long, glabrous ; 
stipules caducous, lanceolate, obtuse, about 4 lin. long, coriaceous, 
glabrous. Receptacles axillary, solitary, pedunculate ; bract at the 
base of the peduncle cupular, enclosing the head of flowers when 
young, at length bursting on one side, coriaceous, about } in. long, 
glabrous; peduncle } in. long, fairly stout, glabrous. Involucre 
cupular, fleshy at the base, membranous towards the margin, variously 
cleft, glabrous. Bracts between the stamens oblong-oblanceolate, 
laciniately cleft at the apex, membranous, exceeding the anthers, 
glabrous. Filaments ? lin. long, glabrous; anthers ? hn. long, 
apiculate. Female perianth short and tubular, acutely 5-cleft at 
the apex. Ovary immersed in the receptacle ; style stout, deeply 
bifurcate, branches flattened, variously twisted, rosy-velvety and 
stigmatose on the inner face. Fruit drupaceous, about } in. long, 
obliquely ellipsoid, striate, glabrous.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1. 
1019; De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me sér. i. 839. 
Centrogyne angolensis, Welw. ex Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 370. 
Bosqueia Welwitschii, Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 36, and in Engl. 
Jahrb. li. 439, fig. 5, A-E. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: forest of Compenda near Mundame, Buesge” 
(fide Engler). 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Kisantu, Gillet, 930. Angola: Golungo 
