ADDENDA. 
4a. Celtis fragifera, A. Chev. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, \xi. Mém. 8e, 299. 
A tree 90-120 ft. high, with a quite cylindrical trunk 45-75 ft. high below 
the branches, and 23-3 ft. in diam. ; branches forming a rounded head. 
Bark whitish. Young branchlets green, angled, puberulous and very 
scabrid ; branches ash-coloured, with prominent white lenticels. Leaves 
stalked, oval or oval-oblong, abruptly long-acuminate, acute, somewhat 
wedge-shaped below from a rounded base, sometimes oblique, margin 
entire or at the top slightly coarsely dentate, 31-8 in. long, 13-3} in. wide, 
3-nerved at the base of the blade, with 2 additional lateral nerves above ; 
firm but membranous in texture, upper face beautifully green, and very 
shining, the lower paler, very scabrid; main nerves depressed above, 
prominent beneath, lateral nerves nearly horizontal; petiole terete, 
channelled above, 34-5 lin. long, finely puberulous-scabrid. Stipules 
lanceolate, subulate, spurred at the base, 24-3 lin. long. Fruiting ped- 
uncles axillary, $-14 in. long, 1 lin. thick, somewhat woody, glabrous, 
ascending, bearing a single fruit. Drupe subrotund or obovoid, crowned at 
the top with the remains of the styles, 10 lin. long, about 9 lin. in diam., 
green when ripe, surface very slightly rough, with strawberry taste and smell ; 
pulp dark green, somewhat gelatinous, 2-2} lin. thick; stone obovoid, 
5 lin. across, the wall about 4 lin. thick, white, hard, very rough, enclosing 
a roundish seed 4 lin. in diam., the thick fleshy cotyledons oily. 
Upper Guinea. Ivory Coast: Vallée du Moyen Comoé, between 'Tingouéla 
and Assipasso, Chevalier, 22575. 
Native name “ Hésan.” 
4b. Celtis compressa, A. Chev. in Bull, Soc. Bot. France, \xi. Mém. 8e, 298. 
A fine tree, 80 to 100 ft. high, with a cylindrical trunk, winged at the base 
and 30 to 60 ft. high below the branches, and 1-2} ft. in diam. Branches 
grey, with white lenticels, when young very slender and ferruginously 
pubescent. Leaves close together, obovate or oblong, acuminate with the 
tip obtuse, often apiculate, rarely long and acute, base acutely wedge- 
shaped, margin entire or sometimes somewhat dentate above and on the 
fertile branches, on fertile shoots broader and regularly toothed, 3-nerved, 
with 3 to 4 ascending lateral nerves on each side above the base, in the 
adult state quite glabrous except on the nerves, bright green and shining 
on both sides; nerves depressed above, puberulous, prominent beneath 
and somewhat pubescent, nervation conspicuous below ; petiole 1-3 lin. 
long, with ferruginous pubescence. Stipules lanceolate-subulate, 14-24 lin. 
long, pubescent, soon falling. Fruits solitary, axillary ; pedicels slender, 
puberulous, 24-6 lin. long ; sepals often persisting at the base of the fruit, 
