ADDENDA. 357 
ostiole, 3—} in. in diam., yellowish-green outside, marked with a few shining 
spots. Ostiole with 2 lanceolate obtuse 4 lin.-long bracts pendulous within 
the receptacle. Flowers sessile or pedunculate, surrounded by scarious 
acicular bracts; ovary sessile, spherical. Male flowers few, inserted at 
the base and apex of the receptacle ; stamens with a short filament, sur- 
rounded by 3 acute searious sepals, Achenes rugose. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea: Futa Jallon; around Mamou, Soya, Jan. 
1909, Chevalier, 20372. 
Specimen not seen ; the author marks its relation to F. Nekbudu, Warb., to 
which species, from the description, it runs down in our key and to which it is 
evidently very closely allied. 
142a. Fieus bangouanensis, 4. Chev. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, \xi. 
Mém. 8e, 300. A tree 75-95 ft. high, with a cylindric trunk 45-60 ft. high, 
14-4 ft. in circumference ; bark of the trunk reddish, smooth ; branches 
spreading, forming a head; young branchlets slender, glabrous or very 
slightly puberulous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate, subcordate at the 
base, slightly narrowed and obtuse at the apex, 4-6 in. long,2 4-3 in, 
broad, leathery, slightly undulate on the margin, dark green on the upper 
surface, glaucous-green below, glabrous ; midrib prominent above, much 
so below; lateral nerves 7-10 on each side of the midrib, the lower 
two pairs from the base, prominent below, slightly conspicuous above ; 
petiole 1-1} in. long, subcylindric, finely channelled above, probably 
puberulous in a young state; stipules ovate-subulate, imbricate, 34 lin. 
long, slightly pubescent outside, falling off before the opening of the 
leaves. Receptacles pedunculate, solitary or paired in the leaf-axils or 
from where the leaves have fallen, spherical, }—% in. in diam., yellowish- 
green, white-spotted, papillose all over but not pubescent; peduncle 
slender, j—} in. long; involucral bracts 3, ovate-orbicular, about ;’5 in. 
diam., puberulous outside. Ostiole } in. in diam., with numerous ovate- 
orbicular bracts produced into an umbo; walls of receptacle firm and 
somewhat sclerotic. Flowers very crowded, the males not seen, the female 
pedicellate or sessile, small, with a very oblique style. Achenes small. 
Upper Guinea. Ivory Coast: Morénou, Nov. 1909, Chevalier, 22444. 
Specimen not seen; stated by the author to be allied to F. wmbellata, Miq. 
According to our arrangement of the species it should be placed next to F. 
Kerstingii, Warb., from which by the description alone it does not appear to be 
easily separated. 
14a, DECORSELLA, A. Chev. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xi. Mém. 8e, 
297 (1916). [Moraces.] 
Flowers dicecious or moneecious ? Male flowers not known. Female 
flowers numerous, inserted on the upper side of a dilated and three-branched 
pedunculate receptacle borne in the axil of a leaf, fasciculate or solitary, 
sessile, very minute, arising from 3 irregular swellings on both the upper and 
lower surfaces of the receptacle ; bracteoles scarious, very minute. Calyx 
of 4-5 small imbricate sepals appressed to the ovary. Ovary concave 
above, without a distinct style or stigma. Ovule at first campylotropous, 
then anatropous. Fruit drupaceous, pedunculate, “nucleus” woody. 
