498 LX. SAMYDACEH (MASTERS). [ Homalium, 
2-3 in. wide. Stipules linear, caducous. Flowers minute, 13-2 lines 
in diameter, shortly pedicellate, arranged in clusters along the sides of 
a puberulous terminal panicle whose branches equal or exceed the leaves 
in length. Flower-tube puberulous, turbinate, limb divided into five 
triangular, acute, valvate segments. Petals 5, spathulate, apiculate, 
slightly downy, two or three times longer than the sepals. Glands 
small, wide, downy. Stamens 5, rather shorter than the petals; fila- 
ments glabrous; anthers minute, subglobose. Ovary rather downy; 
style rather conical, much shorter than the petals. Fruit . . . —Black- 
wellia africana, Hook. f. Fl. Nigrit. 361. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos, Niger, Barter! Fernando Po, Mann! Sierra Leone, 
Don! Afzelius! Smeathmann! Senegal, Heudelot ! 
3. H. stipulaceum, Welw. in Herb. A small tree with terete branches 
covered, when young, with rusty down. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, 
smooth above, downy beneath, oblong-lanceolate, subcordate or rounded 
at the base, acuminate, serrate, 4-5 in. long, 2in. wide. Petiole downy, 
i} in. long. Stipules foliaceous, falcate, as long as the leaf-stalks. 
Flowers 2—8 lines in diameter, placed on very short downy pedicels, 
arranged in terminal much-branched panicles, whose branches are as 
long as or longer than the leaves. Flower-tube urceolate, very short, 
downy, divided into 4—5 rather thick triangular lobes. Petals 9, 
coriaceous, oblong, obtuse, twice the length of the sepals. Glands », 
downy, flat, subtriangular, alternate with the petals, emerging with 
them from the mouth of the tube of the flower. Stamens 9, shorter 
than the petals; filaments slender, curved inwards in the bud. Ovary 
partially adherent; style short, conical, dividing into 4-9 branches 
opposite to the petals. 
Upper Guinea. Bagroo river, Mann! Sierra Leone, Afzelius! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
4. H. angustifolium, Smith ex DC. Prod. ii.54. A shrub or small 
tree; younger branches puberulous. Leaves membranous, glabrous, 
except along the midrib on the under surface, lanceolate or oblong; 
acuminate, tapering at the base into a very short petiole, entire - 
undulate, and minutely serrate, 2-3 in. long, 1 in. wide. Flowers 
numerous, in dense spikes which scarcely exceed the leaves in length. 
Flower-tube turbinate. Sepals leathery, oblong, half the length of the 
broadly oblong petals. Stamens in parcels of 3 or more before eac 
petal; filaments slender; anthers minute, didymous. Glands of disk 
distinctly cushion-shaped, one before each sepal. Ovary half-inferior, 
free portion villose ; style half the length of the petals ; stigmas 9. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Smeathmann! 
Called by the natives “ Maqueequee,” according to Afzelius. 
6. BYRSANTHUS, Guill.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 800. 
Flower-tube obconical, more or less adnate to the ovary; _ of 
calyx 5-6, retlexed. Petals 5-6, leathery, similar to the calyx-lobes 
