Griffonia.) XLVIII, ROSACEE (OLIVER). 373 
subscarious, with prominent nervation, } in. long. Flowers in terminal 
somewhat intricate puberulous paniculate racemes and from the upper 
axils, usually shorter than the leaves. Bracts ovate +, in. or less; 
bracteoles minute, ovate, acute. Pedicels straight, from the last pedicels 
4 in. more or less, Calyx-tube slender, ? in. long, puberulous; lobes 
elliptic-oblong. Petals obovate-oblong, exceeding the calyx, caducous. 
Base of staminal sheath continued around the faux as a prominent 
sinuous disk. Fruit not seen. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann! 
5. G. Barteri, Hook. J. mss. Climbing shrub, about 7 ft. high, 
with greenish-white flowers (Barter); extremities slender glabrous. 
Leaves elliptical apiculate or shortly acuminate, rounded or broadly 
cuneate at base, glabrous and shining on both sides, principal lateral 
nerves 4—6 on each side, distant, not prominent; 24-5 in. long, 14-2 
in. broad more or less, petiole eglandular 1} in. Stipules narrow- 
linear, Inflorescence as in @. Mannii, puberulous. Bracts and pedicels 
the same. Calyx-tube very slender, 4—? in. long, outer lobes elliptical 
acute, inner obtuse. Petals about equalling the calyx, ore (gs ong. 
Stamens 15-25, the base of the sheath continued round the faux, 
toothed. Fruit 1-1} in. long, apparently ovoid-compressed ; pericarp 
crustaceous ; seed thinly covered with straight appressed rigid hairs. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos, Barter! Old Calabar, W. C. Thomson! 
Allied to G. Mannii, but smaller in nearly all its parts. The stipules appear diag- 
nostic. , 
4. PYGEUM, Gert.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 610. 
Flowers occasionally polygamous. Calyx turbinate or campanulate, 
toothed, deciduous leaving a narrow ring. Petals 5 (10-12) or 0, 
inserted in mouth of calyx, small. Stamens 10-20, perigynous. Ovary 
sessile, narrowed into the style; ovules geminate, laterally affixed (or 
pendulous), collateral; stigma terminal. Fruit dry, crustaceous, sub- 
globose or transversely ellipsoidal, 1-seeded (in P. africanum).—Trees 
or shrubs, glabrous (or tomentose). Leaves alternate, simple, petiolate, 
entire or crenate-serrate. Stipules minute, deciduous. Flowers small, 
racemose. 
A small genus of the warmer parts of the Old World. The following appears to be 
endemic. 
1. P. africanum, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vii. 191. Tree 
of 30 ft. or more; extremities, leaves and peduncles wholly glabrous. 
Leaves elliptic-oblong acute or shortly subacutely or obtusely acuminate, 
base rounded or broadly cuneate, crenate-serrate or subentire, thinly 
coriaceous, 3-5 in. long, 14-2 in. broad; petiole }—§ in. sig in 
simple solitary or fascicled racemes, 2 in. long or shorter, from t : 
scale-axils of the shoots, Calyx turbinate-campanulate, with 5 short 
deltoid teeth. Petals very small, obovate, especially towards the 
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