I i 



i 



Antidesma.'] euphokbiace.e (Hutchinson). 407 



Tzaneen Estate, Zoutpansberg, BuHt-Davy, 5265! Komati Poort, Schhchtcr, 

 11840 ! between Spitz Kop and Komati River, Wilms, 206 I 



Eastern Region: Natal; Berea, near Durban, Wood, 208 ! 769 ! S*130 ! 

 Dre^je I Gueinzius ! M'Ken, 296 ! Plant, 25 ! near Umlaas River, Krams, 138 ! 

 luanda, Wood, 392 ! 1068 ! Dumisa, Rudath, 525 ! 601 I and without precise 

 locality, Gerrard, 279 I Cooper, 1230 ! ' • 



Very common in Tropical Africa. 



XVI. PSEUDOLACHNOSTYLIS, Pax, 



Flowers dioecious. Petals absent. Male flower : Sepals 5, imbri- 

 cate. Disc annular, glabrous. Stamens 5 ; filaments connate 

 into a column for about half their length ; anther-cells parallel, 

 slightly unequal, introrse, dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary 

 ovary in the middle of the staminal column often divided, . Female 

 floiver : Calyx as in male. Disc annular, closely embracing the base 

 of the ovary, often irregularly toothed. Ovary 3-celled ; vStyles Sj 

 diverging, very slightly connate at the base, bilobed ; ovules 2 in 

 each cell. Capsule globose or depressed-globose, entire, tardily 

 septicidal ; endocarp thick and bony. Seeds solitary in each cell, 

 ellipsoid, strophiolate ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons flat and broad. 



Trees or slnvibs ; leaves alternate, petiolate, simple ; male flowers in axillary 

 few-flowered pedunculate cymes sun-ovnided by membranous bracts ; female 

 flowers axillary, solitary or siibgolitary. 



Bjstrib. Species 4, occurring in Southern Tropical Africa, the following 

 extending northwards to Lake Victoria. 



1. P. maprounesefolia (Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 20) ; a shrub 



or small tree ; branchlets terete, tomentose when young, becoming 

 glabrous; leaves ovate or ovate-elliptic, rounded or very slightly 

 and obtusely pointed at the apex, rounded or slightly cuneate at 

 the base, 1^-3 in. long, 1-1^ in. broad, slightly coriaceous, glabrous 

 on both surfaces except on the lower half of the midrib which is 

 sometimes pubescent below ; lateral nerves 6—7 on each side, looped, 

 slightly prominent on the lower surface ; petiole 3-5 lin. long, 

 slightly wrinkled, brownish-pubescent ; stipules deciduous ; male 

 flowers in axillary pedunculate cymes ; peduncle 2-3 lin. long, more 

 or less densely pubescent; flowers clustered, subsessile; bracts 

 ovate or oblong, pubescent; sepals 5, ovate, obtuse, 1| lin. long, 

 1^ lin. broad, pubescent outside, glabrous within; disc annular, 

 slightly wrinkled ; stamens 5 ; filaments connate in the lower part ; 

 anthers 1 lin. long, glabrous; rudimentary ovary very small; 

 female flowers solitary ; peduncle up to 3 lin. long, pubescent ; 

 sepals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 21 lin. long, 1| lin. broad, distinctly 

 5-6-nerved on the outside, pubescent; disc cupular, toothed, 

 glabrous ; ovary densely brown-villous ; styles 3, connate at the 

 l>ase, lobed, glabrous, lobes rather thick; fruit globose, | in. in 



