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necessarily be reunited with Catha, whether the latter be retained 
as a separate genus or as a section of Celastrus.—(G. B.) 
XLIV. TEREBINTHACEJE.* 
l. Canarium ? edule, Hook. fil.—Pachylobus edulis, G. Don, 
Gard. Dict. 2. p. 89.—St. Thomas, Don. 
The fruit described by Don, on which he founded the genus 
Pachylobus, does not appear to differ from that of Canarium ; 
and the foliage, of which alone there is a specimen, is very like 
that of some species of that genus. It differs from that of 
C. commune in the midrib of the leaflets being hispid under- 
neath: The flower is unknown. 
The only other W. Tropical African plant known of the tribe 
of Burseree is the Balsamodendron Africanum, Arn., (Heude- 
lotia, A, Rich.) from Senegal. 
l. Spondias lutea, Linn. —S. aurantiaca, Schum. et Thonn. 
Beskr. p. 225 ?—Sierra Leone, cultivated, Vogel. 
2. Spondias dubia, A. Rich. FI. Seneg. 1. p. 153.—Grand Bassa, 
Vogel ; St. Thomas, Don ; Senegal, Sieber. 
3. Spondias? Zanzee, G. Don, Gard. Dict. 9. p. 79.—Fer- 
nando Po? Vogel; St. Thomas, Don. 
This species, and another from Senegambia closely allied to it, 
(S. microcarpa, A. Rich.), differ from Spondias in their poly- 
Bemous and tetramerous flowers, with the petals much more 
decidedly imbricate, and when better known will probably be 
found to form with Harpophyllum caffrum, Bernh. (or Spondias 
caffra, Meissn.), a distinct section of Spondias, or possibly a good 
Separate genus. The specimens of S. Zanzee are very imperfect, 
and insufficient to afford any decided character to distinguish it 
from S. caffra ; the young fruit is like that ofthe true Spondias, 
but small. 
Another W. African species, Spondias Birrea, A. Rich., from 
Senegal and Abyssinia, has since been established as a distinct 
genus by Hochstetter, under the name of Sclerocarga. 
* By G. Bentham. 
