336 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
the idea that, notwithstanding the difference in the form of 
the leaves, they may be mere varieties of one. 
The P. Senegalense, Perr., has hitherto been found in Sene- 
‘gambia only. 
1, Chrysobalanus Jcaco, Linn.—Grand Bassa and Cape Palmas, 
very common, Vogel; Senegal and Guinea, also in the West 
Indies and in Tropical America, but possibly introduced there 
from Africa. What is frequently mistaken for it is the C. 
pellocarpus, which is truly indigenous and frequent in Tropical 
America, and which, as well as the C. oblongifolia, from the 
United States, has a much less fleshy fruit than the African 
species. : ! 
2. Chrysobalanus ellipticus, Soland.—DC. Prod. 2. p. 526.— 
Sierra Leone, Don. 
The C. luteus, from Sierra Leone, mentioned by Sabine, is 
not amongst Don's plants. 
Besides the above Chrysobalanee, no species of the extensive 
Order of Rosacee appears to have been founded in West Tropi- 
cal Africa, although there is scarcely another distriet of the 
globe where it is not more or less numerously represented. 
XLVIII. CouBRETACE E. 
l. Terminalia (Catappa) glaucescens, Planch. in Herb. Hook. ; 
foliis sparsis longiuscule petiolatis ovali-ellipticis breviter 
supra acuminatis basi obtusis v. inzqualiter acutis eglan- 
dulosis nitidis subtus glaucescentibus, drupa samaroidea glau- 
cescente ala longa apice retusa.— On the Quorra, at Attah, 
Vogel. í 
Arbor mediocris, ramulis erassiuseulis apice pubescentibus mox 
glabratis. Folia secus ramulos sparsa, adulta semipedalia, 24-5 
poll. lata, in acumen breve obtusum producta, basi sep!us 
rotundata, interdum valde inæqualiter angustata, coriacea, 
supra glabra et demum lucida, pube brevissima marginata, 
subtus glaucescentia ad costam venasque primarias puberula, 
ceterum glabra v. pilis brevibus conspersa; petioli 1-H-pol- 
licares. Flores desunt. Pedunculi fructiferi axillares, polli- 
cares, pubescentes, a medio ad apicem cicatrices ostendunt 
