Parinarium.] XLVIII, ROSACEEH (OLIVER). 371 
Stamens indefinite, unilateral, sub-biseriate, the short annulus con- 
tinuous all round; filaments much exceeding the calyx, 20 or more, 
filiform crumpled. Ovary hirsute, 2-locellate. 
Upper Guinea. River Muni, Mann! 
3. GRIFFONIA, Hook. f.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 608. 
Calyx-tube cylindrical or narrowly infundibuliform, lobes 5 equal or 
nearly so, inner surface and covered margins hoary- or silky-tomentose. 
Petals caducous, elliptical or oblong, veined. Stamens indefinite, uni- 
lateral ; filaments united in a long narrow strap, circinate in bud, free 
at the apex; anthers small, elliptical or roundish. Ovary inserted in 
the mouth of calyx, hirsute, 1-locular, 2-ovulate; style basal, long, 
slender. Fruit a nut or drupaceous, 1-seeded; pericarp crustaceous 
(in @. Barteri).—Small trees or climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate, 
simple, entire, glabrous above. Stipules linear to ovate. Flowers in 
simple or panicled axillary or terminal racemes, bracteate and brac- 
teolate. 
Confined to West Tropical Africa. 
M. Baillon may be right in reducing this genus to Acioa, Aubl., as distinguished 
from Couepia, Aubl. (Adansonia, vii. 222), but I have not the necessary material for 
comparison, and the fruit of Acioa, as figured by Aublet, does not agree with that of 
G. Barteri, the only Griffonia of which I have seen a fruit. I adopt Griffonia, 
Hook. f., as I find M. Baillon mistaken in his note upon the priority of his genus of the 
same name (Adansonia, I. c.). 
Flowers in simple racemes. 
Bracteoles palmatifid. 
Leaves 8 in. by 4-5, auricled at base. . . . . . «-- 1. G. Icondere. 
Leaves 4-6 in. by 14—34, entire at base . Sse. 22: (GG; Bellayana. 
Bracteoles lanceolate or ovate, entire ..... =... =. 3. G, pallescens. 
Flowers in compound or panicled racemes. 
Leaves 5-7 in., lateral nerves 6-10. Stipules ovate . 4. G. Mannii. 
Leaves 23-5 in., lateral nerves 4-6. Stipules narrow-linear . 5. G. Barteri. 
1. G.Icondere. Climbing shrub; extremities thick as a goose- 
quill, clothed with dense tomentum. Leaves subsessile, elliptic-ovate, 
obtuse or apiculate, base equally or unequally auricled, thickly coria- 
ceous, glabrous above, shortly tomentose and paler beneath, reticulation 
rather prominent beneath, 8 in. long, 4—5 in. broad. Stipules oblong- 
lanceolate attenuate, 4} in. Flowers in simple nutant racemes from 
the upper axils, 4 in. long. Bracts ovate acuminate, { in. Pedicels 
slender, glabrous, 3-3 in. Calyx-tube exceeding the pedicel, tubular- 
infundibuliform, obliquely dilated a little above the narrowed base.— 
Acioa (Lorandra) Icondere, Baill. in Adansonia, vii. 233 (note). 
Upper Guinea. (Gaboon river, Griffon du Bellay. 
Description from M. Baillon. I do not know the plant. 
2. G. Bellayana. Tree of 15-25 ft. (Dr. Welwitsch) ; extremities 
terete, nearly the thickness of a goose-quill, densely rusty tomentose- 
pubescent. “Leaves broadly elliptic-oblong varying to obovate-oblong, 
obtuse or apiculate, base rounded, entire, coriaceous or peemabranous, 
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