Anisophyllea. | LIV. RHIZOPHORACES (OLIVER). 413 
as fleshy and edible—Trees or shrubs, glabrous, or young shoots 
pubescent or pilose. Leaves alternate, simple, often 3—5-plinerved, 
entire, exstipulate, frequently with alternating reduced stipuliform 
leaves. Flowers in axillary or supra-axillary spikes, ebracteolate or 
bracteoles minute. 
A small genus, occurring also in Madagascar, the Malayan region, and Ceylon. The 
Ceylon plant is very nearly allied to the following. 
The fruit of A. lawrina is said in shape and size to resemble a pigeon’s egg. It is 
sold at Sierra Leone in April and May. It is the “ Monkey Apple” of Sabine. 
1. A. laurina, R. Br. in Sabine, Fruits of 8. Leone, Trans. Hort. Soe. 
v. 446, A small tree; extremities terete, pilose-pubescent, thinly 
silky-puberulous or glabrate. Leaves obliquely ovate-oblong or ovate- 
lanceolate, gradually acuminate, base unequal, the upper or sometimes 
both margins rounded, or base on luxuriant shoots sub-semicordate or 
very distinctly cordate, 3—5-nerved, early glabrous, thinly coriaceous ; 
23-6 in. long, 1—2 or even on luxuriant shoots 23 in. broad, frequently 
with stipuliform ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate leaves alternating with 
or near the base of the ordinary leaves. Petiole 1-2 lines. Flowers 
small, puberulous or tomentose, sessile on axillary or supra-axillary 
solitary or geminate slender spikes 1-3 in. long. Bracteoles very 
minute, ovate or lanceolate or obsolete. Calyx-lobes ovate. Petals 
narrowed below, deeply laciniate above with gland-tipped segments.— 
Anisophyllum laurinum, Don; Benth. in Fl. Nigrit. 342. 
We have in the Kew herbarium three forms embraced by the above description, 
which may possiby prove to be specifically distinct. All are from— — 
Upper Guinea. They are severally characterized thus :— : 
Gaboon river, Mann! Leaves 4—6in., base rounded, sometimes subcordate. Stipuliform 
leaves §-}in. long. Petioles 1 line or less. Spikes (at least sometimes) from axils of 
reduced or stipuliform leaves. Bracteoles obsolete. Flowers papillose-puberulous. 
Sierra d. Crystal, Mann / Leaves as above, but less rounded at base. Petioles 2 lines 
ormore. Stipuliform leaves minute or 0. Spikes slightly supra-axillary. Bracteoles 
Squamiform. Flowers tomentose. A flowerless plant from Mr. Barter, labelled as 
. Common everywhere round Free Town, Sierra Leone,’’ agrees with this form so far as 
It goes 
Sone paiihia. Leprieur! A flowering specimen, with immature elliptic-lanceolate 
leaves, 14-24 in, long as yet. Flowers apparently all male. Bracteoles obsolete. 
valyx sparsely puberulous, deeply 4-fid, base truncate. Petals but slightly exceeding 
the calyx, 3-fid, with a slender median segment, and the lateral segments bifid. Rudi- 
ment of ovary hairy. : 
Orver LV. COMBRETACEZ. (By Prof. Lawson.) 
Flowers generally hermaphrodite. Tube of the calyx adnate to the 
Ovary, constricted above it, or continuous with the limb and then elon- 
gute-tubular ; limb 4—5-partite (rarely 6-8) generally campanulate ; 
obes valvate, Petals 0 or 4—5, often small, imbricate or valvate. Sta- 
mens 4—5 (or 8-10 in two rows); filaments subulate or filiform, erect, 
Inflexed in westivation, naked at the base (in Gyrocarpus vey raat 
glands, or with alternating staminodes) ; anthers versatile, dehiscing 
longitudinally, or adnate and dehiscing by valves. Disk epigynous or 
