Tas. 5986. 
TRECULIA AFRICANA. 
The “ Okwa tree” of West Tropical Africa. 
Nat. Ord. ArtocarPeE®.—Tribe, MorEz. 
Genus, Trecutia, Decne. ; (Trecul in Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 3, vol. viii. p. 108). 
TRECULIA africana ; glaberrima, ramulis validis, foliis breviter et crasse 
petiolatis oblongo-ovatis v. lanceolatis obtuse acuminatis integerrimis 
crasse coriaceis supra nitidis basi acutis v. suboblique, cordatis, nervis 
validis, amento florifero globoso, bracteis orbiculatis crasse corlacels 
suffulto breviter et crasse pedunculato. 
Trecutta africana, Decaisne in Trecul Monog. sur les Artocarpées in Ann. 
Se. Nat. sér. 3, vol. viii. p. 109, t. 3, f 86-90; Walp. Ann. vol. i. p. 658. 
Myrtorextis edulis, Welwitsch Mss. 
Awenpoas DE Disanna, Welwitsch, Synopse Explicativa, p. 54 (No, 142), 
A very singular West African tree, closely allied to 
Artocarpus (which includes the bread-fruit and Jack -fruit of 
tropical Asia), but differing in having three stamens instead 
of one, in the form of the perianth, in the embryo, and ac- 
cording to Trecul in the male and female flowers being mixed 
in the same head, which, however, is not the case in our 
specimen in which the heads are all male.* : 
Treculia appears to inhabit the whole western coast of 
tropical Africa, from Senegambia, where it was discovered by 
Heudelot, to Angola, whence it was brought by Dr. Wel- 
witsch, who states in his Synopse Explicativa that the fruitis 
called “ Amendoas de Disanha” by the Portuguese, and “Isa” 
in the Island of St. Thomas. Specimens have also been sent. by 
Dr. Kirk from the west shore of Lake Nyassa, gathered during 
ne Trecul describes the genus as diccious, no doubt a lapsus re ae 
re hak as he proceeds to say that the male and female flowers are mixed 1n the 
me head. 
AUGUST Ist, 1872. 
