220 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
Thonn. (probably the same plant as Cadaba farinosa, complete 
the list of W. African Capparidee known; the Calycandra 
pinnata of A. Richard being a leguminous plant. 
IX. FrACOURTIANEJE. 
1. Flacourtia Vogelit, Hook. fil.; arborea, dioica, ramis nunc 
spinescentibus, foliis alternis petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis 
apice angustatis obtusis serratis nitidis transverse reticulatis, 
racemis axillaribus brevibus puberulis petiolo paulo longiori- 
bus 6-8-floris, floribus 4-meris, sepalis late ovatis obtusis 
ciliatis, stigmatibus 5-6.—Niger River, at Abóh, Vogel. 
Rami validi, teretes, cortice rufo-brunneo, punctis albidis no- 
tato; ramulis sub lente puberulis. Folia 3-4 unc. longa, 1} 
lata, basi subacuta, apice obtusa, obtuse serrata, utrinque 
nitida; petiolo } unc. longo, glabro v. puberulo. Pedunculi 
erecti. Fi. 9 pedicellati ; pedicello 1-2 lin. longo calyce bast 
intruso. Ovarium sub 6-loculare. Fructus carnosus, ruber. 
Closely resembling the Indian F. sapida, but the leaves are 
longer, narrower, more beautifully shining, reticulated and regu- 
larly serrated, and the female flowers are very different. There 
isa new species of this genus from Senegal in the Hookerian 
Herb. ; and two others from Guinea, F. edulis, Schum., and 
F. flavescens, Willd., are described by Thonning. 
1. Oncoba glauca, Hook. fil. —Ventenatia glauca, Pal. de Beauv- 
Fl. Ow. et Ben. 1. p. 29. t. 17.—Fernando Po, Vogel; 
Benin, Pal. de Beauv. 
The identity of the genera Oncoba, Forsk., Heptaca, Lour., 
Ventenatia, Pal. de Beauv., Lundia, Thonn. et Schum., an 
Xylotheca, Hochst., is shown by Dr. Planchon in the sixth. vol. 
ofthe London Journal of Botany, p. 295, where also he has 
given the distinctive characters of the several species. Among 
them, a second W. African species is the O. spinosa, Forsk., 
extending apparently from Senegambia to the Yemen. 
2. Bixa Orellana, Linn.—Grand Bassa, Vogel; Sierra Leone 
and Accra, Don. 
