26 ICONES PLANTARUM, 
Pirate 1127. 
‘BELONOPHORA COFFEOIDES, Hook. /. 
‘Rosracez, Tribe ALBERTEA. 
Belonophora, Hook. /. in Benth. ‘and Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 109. 
Has. West coast ‘of ‘Africa; -Islevof “St. Thomas, ‘alt. 3000 ft. G. 
Mann., 1860. 
Arbor 40-pedalis, fioribus exceptis glaberrima; ramulis gracilibus tereti- 
bus, cortice pallido, ultimis compressis. Folia $-8-poll. longa, opposita, 
breviter petiolata, élliptico- v. obovato-lancedlata, ‘obtusa, _candato-acuminata, 
sime tenuissime Swamy, inne stri idte, aera Flores 8, 
sessiles, fasciculati. Calyx parvus, 4-bracteolatus ; tubus obconicus ; limbus 
-5 fidus, lobi is viliolatis, pers rsistens, Corolla hypocrateri- 
rpha 3-pollicaris, tubo cylindraceo -sericeo, fauce glaberrima ; limbi 3-3 
pol diam. lobi 5, lineares, clog ota pe patentes, striete 
5, tubo corolle inserta antheree‘sessiles, dorso medio affixee, Encaves; subu- 
lato-acuminat, ‘incluse. Midewe % it niidas, Ovarium 2-loeulare ; stylus 
brevis, ramis 2 subulatis suberectis ‘pails 3 ovula in localis solitaria, ab 
= sabi anatropa. Fructus ‘globosus, co -locularis, loculis 
otenui. Semina penilula, ovoides, hilo apicem versus ventrali 
uto, testa firma, albumine corneo ; embryo minutus, curvus , apicem versus 
seminis inversus, cotyledonibus iparvis cordatis, radicula tereti obtusa: hilo 
proxima, 
This and the following genus ‘bélong to a small West African tribe of Al- 
bertez ; it resembles Cgfea in habit, but C\iffers in the position and direc- 
tion of the ovule, in the Ae aborra calyx, and in the albumen not being fur- 
rowed in front.—J. D. H 
Fig. 1. Flower; 2. The-same with the corolla laid + 3. Sta 4. Si heen 
vertical section of ovary; %. Ovule; 6. Bruits yé rhe on and 8 trot ty ‘soe 
— 5 9 10 and 11. dorsal ae ‘and ventrial views of seed; 12. vertical section of a 
- Embryo :—all but 6-1. magnified. 
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