Bosqueia. | OXXIIIc. MORACE2 (Hutchinson). 219 
Alto ; base of the Serra de Alto Queta, Welwitsch, 456! banks of the River Cuango 
near Sange, Welwitsch, 457! 458! Cazengo district, Gossweiler, 608! 754! 
4513! 4867! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Kasai district: on the Sankuru River, 
Ledermann (fide Engler). 
In all probability the genus Pontya, A. Chevalier (P. excelsa, A. Cheval. 
Veget. Ut. Afr. Frang. fasc. v. 263, name only, and in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 
1911, Mém. viii. d. 210), is a Bosqueia and perhaps the same as B. angolensis. 
Chevalier’s generic description is not quite definite, but he assigns the genus to 
the tribe Artocarpee, and the description of the species seems to tally with 
B. angolensis, though this plant had not hitherto been gathered north of the 
meroons. 
We have not been able to examine any of the specimens of Pontya, collected 
by Chevalier in the following localities :— 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea: in the forest between Lola and Nzo 
Chevalier, 20990 ; Kissi district ; between Ouria and the Doffé River, Chevalier 
20765. Ivory Coast : Morenou, Chevalier, 22480; Indenie, Zaranou, Chevalier, 
16278. Dahomey: near Savalou, Pira, Chevalier, 23748; Savalou, between 
Cabole and Bassila, Chevalier, 23785 ; near Djougou, Chevalier, 23885. 
2. B. Phoberos, Baill. Adansonia, viii. 72, t. iv. A large trée, up to 
80 ft. high ;_ branches and branchlets terete, covered with a light grey 
glabrous bark. Leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rounded or obtuse 
at the base, shortly and very obtusely acuminate, 21-4 in. long, 
1-2 in. broad, entire, chartaceous, shining on the upper surface, 
glabrous ; midrib prominent on both surfaces, gradually tapered 
to the apex ; lateral nerves 5-6 on each side of the midrib, diverging 
at an angle of about 65°, looped some distance from the margin, 
slender, distinct on both surfaces; veins very lax and indistinct ; 
petiole 4—5 lin. long, concave on the upper surface, glabrous ; stipules 
caducous, the terminal one enclosing the young bud, lanceolate, 
3-4 lin. long, glabrous. Receptacles axillary, solitary, shortly 
pedunculate ; bract at the base of the peduncle cupular, enclosing 
the head of flowers when young, soon falling away, about 2 lin. long. 
coriaceous, glabrous ; peduncle 1-1} lin. long, glabrous. Involucre 
fleshy at the base with the ovary immersed in it, with membranous 
toothed limb, glabrous. Male flowers numerous. Filaments slender, 
iform, about 2° lin. long, glabrous; anthers very small, creamy 
white, purple around the styles, elliptic, obtuse, scarcely 4 lin. long. 
Tracts surrounding the style connate into a tube nearly as long as 
the Stamens, laciniately toothed on the margin, submembranous, 
glabrous. Style exserted, stout, deeply 2-lobed or rarely 3-lobed ; 
lobes about 1? lin. long. Fruit pedunculate, obliquely ellipsoid, % in. 
long —Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 36; Rendle im Journ. Linn. 
Soc. x1. 206. B. cerasiflora, Volk. ex Engl. l.c. and in Eng). Jabrb. li. 
439, fig. 5, F-H. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Kirgema, Dimmer, 197! British East Africa : 
Moy sentir Zanzibar; Boivin, Lyne, 96! German East Africa: 
Shira, Volkens, 1935 | Dackaguaae East Africa: Gazaland; Mount Maruma, 
- Swynnerton, 687 ! 
