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1029. Tylostemon (Ennearrhena) sessilifolius, Stapf in Dyer, 
Fl. Trop. A/r. vi. sect. 1. part 1. p. 175 (anglice) [Lauraceae- 
Perseeae] ; ab omnibus speciebus notis foliis sessilibus basi 
cordatis distinctus. 
Frutex (vel arbor ?) ramulis robustis exsiecando cinerascentibus 
glabris. Folia sessilia, oblanceolato-oblonga, in acumen angustum 
ad 2°5 em. longum producta, basi cordata auriculis rotundatis, ad 
fere 40 cm. longa et ultra 10 cm. lata, papyracea, glabra, exsiccando 
fusca, nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 12 ascendentibus inferiori- 
bus multo magis obliquis quam superioribus, venarum reticulatione 
utrinque prominula. Panicula ultra 7°5 cm. longa, 5 em. lata, 
subgracilis, superne tenuiter pubescens ; pedunculus brevis; rami 
inferiores distantes, ad 5 cm. longi, supra medium multiflori ; 
ramuli ultimi ordinis et pedicelli brevissimi, tenues. Perianthium 
subgloboso-turbinatum, 1°5 mm. longum, extus minutissime pubes- 
cens, segmentis rotundatis receptaculo aequilongis. Stamina 
introrsa, filamentis antheras aequantibus ad earum bases et secus 
lineam mediam minute pilosis ; stamina extrorsa connectivo pilosulo 
basi utrinque glanduligera ; staminodia triangularia. A/frodaphne 
sessilifolia, Stapf, in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xxxvu., p, 111, et 
Beilschmiedia sessilifolia, Engl. ex Stapf, l.c. [nomina tantum]. 
West Arrica. Cameroons, Bipinde, Zenker, 2256 ! 
When I described the genus Afrodaphne in the Journal of the 
Linnean Society in 1905 (vol. xxxvii., p. 110), I was well aware of 
Engler’s genus J'ylostemon, described in 1899 ; but there were then 
no specimens of the species referred to it at Kew, and the fact that 
the description of Tylostemon followed the descriptions of several 
species of Beilschmiedia in Engler’s paper, as well as the statement 
that the staminal glands of T'ylostemon were adnate to the filaments 
all along led me to the conclusion that T'ylostemon and the African 
Beilschmiedias belonged to two distinct genera. As the African 
Beilschmiedias appeared to me to differ generically from the 
original Beilschmiedias of the Indo-Malayan region, I made them 
into a distinct genus Afrodaphne. Since then I have had an 
opportunity of examining the original species of Tylostemon, thanks 
to the courtesy of Professor Engler, and found that his African 
Beilschmiedias, and therefore my species of Afrodaphne, are con- 
generic with Tylostemon. The staminal glands of the original 
Tylostemons are very like those of Engler’s African Beilschmie- 
dias, and they are attached in the same way, as res also be sitio 
from the rather diagrammatic figures on plate ix. of ngler 8 paper. 
The affinity of Ty/ostemon lies rather with the American genus 
Hufelandia than with Beilschmiedia proper, and the authors of the 
enera Plantarum (vol. iii, p. 152) actually referred meee 
Oreodaphne minutiflora, O. Mannii, and O. gaboonensis (that he 
Tylostemon minutiflorus, T. Man vii, and T. gaboonensis) to t . 
section Hufelandia of their Betlschmiedia. Both seb sore 
Tylostemon have always a distinct receptacle, against t “sors 
deeply divided perianth of Betlschmeedia ; but Hufelandia differs 
om Tylostemon in the leaves being more or less aaa aa 
below, and in having the connective roduced at the apex, and the 
styles very short. Both form fairly homogeneous groups. 
