282 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
Fructus 4 unc. longus, obscure trigonus, siccitate fusco- 
viridis. 
In the structure of the flower, the depressed dise, short 
filaments, and especially in the apparently all but 1l-celled 
anthers, this approaches Hippocratea, from which genus, how- 
ever, the inflorescence and fruit remove it. 
5. Salacia pyriformis, Walp. Rep. 1. p. 402 ; ramis preecipue ad 
petiolum compressis, cortice atro-fusco levi, foliis petiola- 
tis oppositis alternisque subcoriaceis oblongis utrinque rotun- 
datis nune subacuminatis plerumque integerrimis super niti- 
dis subter pallidioribus opacis reticulatis, pedicellis plurimis 
axillaribus 1-floris petiolo squilongis, alabastris globosis, 
fructu pyriformi obtuse trigono.— Calypso pyriformis, G. 
Don in Gard. Dict. 1. p. 629.—Mountains of Sierra Leone, 
Don ; Senegambia. 
Frutex scandens?. Rami elongati, teretes. Folia 4-5 unc. 
longa, 2-24 lata, siccitate super fusca, nitida, subter palli- 
diora, subferruginea; venis divaricatis; petiolo 3-3 unc. 
longo. Flores i unc, diametro, petalis oblongis obtusis, disco 
conico, filamentis basi latissimis. Fructus (fid. Don) mag- 
nitudine Pyri “ Bergamot” dicti, edulis. " 
This is one of the few edible fruits of Western Africa, of which 
an account, drawn up by Sabine, appears in the Hort. Soc. Trans. 
v. 5. p. 459. under the name of Tonsella pyriformis. 
6. Salacia elongata, Hook. fil. ; ramis validis obscure tubercu- 
latis v. granulatis, ramulis levibus ad axillas foliorum com- 
pressis, foliis petiolatis oblongo-obovatis elongatis basi an- 
gustatis apice rotundatis v. subacuminatis obscure sinuato- 
serratis integerrimisve super nitidis subter pallidioribus opacis 
coriaceis, pedunculis axillaribus fructiferis petiolo longiori- 
bus.—St. Thomas, Don. à 
Exemplar miserrimum, priori affine, differt foliis magis coriacels 
angustioribus basi non rotundatis, venisque foliorum multo 
minus a costa media divergentibus. Alabastra globosa. 
This is evidently a distinct species from the former, although 
it appears to have been confounded with it in Don’s: Herba- 
rium, 
