366 XLVIII. ROSACEH (OLIVER). [ Chrysobalanus. 
Upper Guinea. Numerous localities from Senegambia southwards, apparently 
affecting maritime or swampy situations. 
Lower Guinea. Loanda aud Ambriz, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Also in ‘Tropical America. The “ Cocoa Plum” of the West Indies, 
2. C. ellipticus, Solander ; DC. Prod. ii. 526. Very closely allied 
to the foregoing ; varying from a low shrub to a tree of 30 ft. in height 
(Mann). fest elliptical, broadly and obtusely pointed or obtusely 
apiculate or simply obtuse, not broadly rounded or retuse as in C. Icaco, 
in the narrower-leaved forms cuneately narrowed into the petiole; 
2-3 in. long, 1—-1?in. broad; petiole 1—2 lines. Inflorescence shorter 
than leaves in our specimens. Fruit the ‘size of a damson plum, with 
a thick black skin” (Don).—C. Icaco, L. var. elliptica, Hook. f. in. Mart. 
Fl. Bras. Chrysobal. 7. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia! Sierra Leone, Don! Ibu and Grand Bassa, T. 
Togel! Lagos, Barter! Nun river, Mann! 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Dr. Smith! 
Probably common in Upper Guinea. What appears to be the same species (C. 
guianensis, Klotzsch), occurs in Tropical America, whether introduced only I cannot 
say. 
2. PARINARIUM, Juss.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 607. 
Calyx-tube short or elongate, uniformly narrowed below or more or 
less gibbous, hollow or solid nearly throughout, lobes 5, obtuse and 
imbricate or acute and sometimes subvalvate. Petals 5 (or 4), inserted 
in mouth of calyx-tube, caducous. Stamens 7—o , perigynous; fila- 
ments shortly united at base, when the stamens are unilateral with a 
toothed or entire margin around the calyx-tube continuous with the 
sheath ; anthers ovoid or rotundate. Ovary inserted in the mouth of 
the calyx-tube, hirsute, wholly or partially 2-locellate, with 1 ovule in 
each cell; style basal. (Carpels occasionally 2.) Drupe ellipsoidal or 
subglobose, with a bony 1—2-locular putamen.—Trees or shrubs. 
Leaves alternate, coriaceous, entire, base of lamina or petiole frequently 
2-glandular. Stipules linear or subulate, deciduous. Flowers cymose, 
) vecsiils fre ; . : : 
2-bracteolate, in axillary or terminal pyramidal or corymbose panicles, 
rarely racemose, 
A considerable genus, widely diffused in the warmer regions of both hemispheres. 
All of the following species, excepting one, are peculiar to Africa. 
A. Calyx-tube campanulate or turbinate, hollow, not or scarcely gibbous, teeth acute. 
Antheriferons stamens usually 7-10, not exceeding the calyx. Buds enclosed be- 
tween a pair of caducous bracteoles (§ Petrocarya). 
Leaves elliptical acuminate, base entire, rounded or broadly 
CONOR es ES Fe ps ne a eek 
Leaves ovate-oblong, broadly pointed, base cordate; petiole 
Leaves elliptic-oblong, rounded and obtuse at each end: Be hatha 
petiole 4-4} in. Panicle lax. ee ee 
Leaves elliptic-oblong, obtuse, base entire or subcordate; 
petiole {-§ in. Panicle dense. Tree orshrub . . . . 4. P. Mobola. 
Leaves linear-oval to elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 4-1 in. broad; 
petiole J,-} in. Shrubg-1h ft... . : 
3. P. curatellafolium. 
5. P. capense. 
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