244 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
super glabratis subter ferrugineo-tomentosis nigro-punctatis, 
cymis axillaribus paucifloris, pedicellis elongatis pedunculo 
zquilongis sepalisque obtusis pubescentibus, bacca globosa 
pulposa 5-loculari, loculis polyspermis, seminibus subcylin- 
draceis.—Sierra Leone ; Vogel, (cult.), Don. 
Rami graciles; cortice pallide cinereo rimoso; ramulis divari- 
catis. Petioli 2-3-pollicares. Folia inferiora parva, late 
elliptico-oblonga, 1-13 unc. longa, superiora majora, oblongo- 
lanceolata, 4-pollicaria, in apicem acuminatam angustata, sub- 
membranacea, margine obscure undulata, super fusco-brunnea, 
opaca, subter pallidiora, flavo-fusca v. rufo-ferruginea, pube 
stellata subtomentosa, penninervia. Pedunculi graciles, 4 lin. 
longi, dichotome v. subumbellatim ramosi. Bacce diametro 
Pisi majusculi. Testa crustacea pallide flavo-brunnea, leviter 
reticulata, albumine v. endopleura parca; embryone tereti, 
cylindraceo. à 
The specimens are flowerless, but the structure of the fruit 
and seed so entirely accord with the S. American Vismie, that 
though perhaps the only extra-American species of the genus, I 
refer it to that with little hesitation. t 
It is to be borne in mind that it appears to abound at Sierra 
Leone, where Vogel distinctly says à£ is in cultivation. 
The Lancretia suffruticosa, Del., a plant common to Senegal 
and Egypt, is the only other W. African Hypericinea known to 
me. 
XXVII. MALPIGHIACEÆ. 
1, Acridocarpus plagiopterus, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 1. P- 
123. t. 29.—Anomalopteris obovata, G. Don, Gard. Dict. 
1. 642.—Sierra Leone, Don. ; Senegambia. 
2. Acridocarpus Smeathmanni, Guill. et Perr. l c. p. 124 
Anomalopteris spicata, Don, l. c.— Sierra Leone, Don. — . 
3. Acridocarpus longifolius, Hook. fil. ; glaberrimus, ramis graci- 
libus, foliis alternis breve petiolatis lineari-oblongis elongatis 
apice angustatis acuminatisque margine undulatis membra- 
naceis subter vix glandulosis, petiolo biglanduloso, racemo 
