380 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
examined) are short, orbicular, flattened, with a narrow 
wing at their apex, and are suspended by filiform funi- 
culi, sometimes very short, sometimes twice as long as the 
seed. 
A second species of this genus, with broader leaves and 
larger stipules, was found by Kotschy in Nubia. 
1. Stephegyne Africana, Korth.—Nauclea Africana, Willd.— 
DC. Prod. 3. p. 345.—Nauclea platanocarpa, Planch. in 
Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 787.—Platanocarpum Africanum, Hook. fil. 
MS. (Tas. XXXVII.)—On the Quorra, at Attah, where it 
forms a handsome tree of 30 feet high, and at Acera, where 
it is a bush of little more than a man’s height, with 
white flowers, turning yellowish, Vogel; Sierra Leone, Don; 
Senegal and Guinea. : 
The confusion which has crept into our synonymy of this 
plant is owing to Vogel's specimens having been mixed with 
those of Sarcocephalus, and Dr. Planchon having unfortunately 
examined a fruit of the latter plant as belonging to the Ste- 
phegyne. The heads of the true Stephegyne are not far ad- 
vanced towards maturity ; but the young capsules are precisely 
as described by Korthals in his generic character, perfectly 
distinct, though closely connected in a head, with linear pendu- 
lous placentz, each bearing several ascending imbricated ovules. 
I cannot ‘either agree with Dr. Planchon in considering this 
plant and Sieber’s Senegal specimens as specifically distinct from 
Willdenow’s. The receptacle in all our specimens is certainly 
pilose, and Willdenow corrected his first character of ^ capitulis 
sessilibus” to that of “ subsessilibus," the peduncle being usually 
very short beyond the last pair of leaves. 
Tas. XXXVII. Fig. 1. flower with two bracteole ; f.2. the same 
in a more advanced stage ; f. 3. young fruit. 
There is among Vogel’s Fernando Po specimens, one without 
flowers or fruit, but which has the appearance of a species of 
Sarcocephalus or Stephegyne. t is a tree, with large leaves 
and very large foliaceous stipules, thus far agreeing with 
Nauclea, stipulosa, DC., a Senegambian plant, which may 
very possibly be referrible to Stephegyne. 
