370 XLVIII. ROSACEE (OLIVER). [ Parinarium. 
8. P. polyandrum, Benth. in Fl. Nigrit. 333. Shrub or small tree 
attaining 12-20 ft.; extremities thinly pilose-pubescent or glabrate. 
Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong obtuse entire or very shortly apicu- 
late, rounded or broadly cuneate at base, glabrous shining smooth or 
obsoletely scabrid above, glabrous or with few scattered hairs beneath, 
lateral nervures scarcely prominent, 5—8 on each side; 34-42 in. long, 
1}-2 in. broad; petiole with a pair of sessile glands at base of lamina, 
4 in. Flowers white, in dense many-flowered cymosely-branched 
more or less hoary-tomentose terminal panicles 3—6 in. broad. Ulti- 
mate bracteoles caducous, ovate-rotundate, }—t in. long. Calyx-tube 
pyriform, nearly solid, about } in. to first bracteoles; segments ovate- 
rotundate, obtuse, coriaceous. Petals broadly rounded above, little ex- 
ceeding the calyx. Stamens indefinite (85-40) unilateral, very shortly 
connate at base; filaments 2-3 times as long as calyx, but much 
twisted and little exserted. Carpels frequently 2 or more; ovary hir- 
sute, bilocellate. | Fruit ellipsoidal, “resembling a young peach,” with 
a thick woody putamen and thin sarcocarp. In our specimens }—1 in. 
long, thinly tomentose. 
Upper Guinea. Aittah on the Quorra, T. Vogel! Nupe, Barter! 
Mr. Barter says the fruit is hardly edible, and that the wood is well-suited for the 
charcoal used by native smiths. 
9. P.robustum, Oliv. Tree of 40 ft.; extremities stout, terete, 
with small scattered lenticels, glabrate. Leaves coriaceous, oblanceo- 
late- or elliptic-oblong, with an obtuse acumen of }—4 in., base cu- 
neate, glabrous above, paler beneath, with a minute cinnamon-coloured 
puberulous tomentum upon which the prominent midrib is relieved in 
darker colour, lateral nervures distant, 59—7 on each side; 4—5 in. long, 
14-1? in. broad. Petiole with a pair of sessile glands at the base of 
the lamina, } in. long more or less. Flowers “ yellow” in broad ter- 
minal cymosely branched pilose-pubescent panicles, 4—6 in. broad. 
Bracteoles caducous. Calyx-tube and pedicel about 3 in. to first brac- 
teoles; tube solid, segments broadly ovate-rotundate. Stamens inde- 
finite, the annulus at base incomplete. Carpels 1 or 8. Ovary densely 
hirsute, 2-locellate. 
Upper Guinea. Banks of Nun river, Mann! 
Allied to P. Grifithianwm, Benth: A species of the Malayan region and North 
Australia. ; 
10. P. glabrum, Oliv. Tree of 30 ft., wholly glabrous’ or inner 
sepals only thinly pulverulent-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous elliptical 
or oblong-elliptical, narrowed to each end, with a narrow obtuse acu- 
men, base cuneate with a pair of minute or obsolete glands at the inser- 
tion of the petiole, midrib prominent beneath, lateral nervures and 
reticulation scarcely prominent ; 3—4 in. long, 1-1} in. broad; petiole 
1_1 in.; glands at base of lamina obscure or 0. Flowers very nume- 
rous in terminal much cymosely-branched panicles. Bracts caducous. 
Calyx-tube solid, clavate, gradually narrowed below, about $ in. with 
the pedicel to the first articulation. Calyx-lobes rotundate, coriaceous. 
