Plates 2566 and 2-367. 



PACHYLOBTJS EDULIS, G. Don. 



BURSERACE^E. 



P. edulis, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. p. 89 ; foliolis 11-17, fructu oblongo 

 vel anguste ovoideo"2-3 poll, longo. 



Arbor 30-70-pedalis ramis floriferis at que floribus ferrugineo-pubescen- 

 tibus. Folia imparipinnata, l-2ped. longa, glabrescentia ; foliola coriacea, 

 breviter petiolulata, valde variabilia, ovata, oblonga vel lanceolata, 2 

 intima basilaria ssepe (an semper ?) multo minora, stipuhefornria, omnia 

 abrupte acuminata, maxima usque ad 6 poll, longa, venis primariis 

 conspicuis prope marginem inter se arcuatim conjunctis. Flores diclini 

 vel polygami, subtrimeri, anguste paniculati ; paniculse axillares, foliis 

 breviores. Stamina 6, extra discum inserta. Ovarium 2-loculare, 

 loculis biovulatis. Fructus edulis, drupaceus, abortu monospermus, 

 oblongo-ovoideus, 2-3 poll, longus, mesocarpio crasso carnoso, endo- 

 carpio tenui. Semen, ut videtur, fere erectum, loculo conforme, testa 

 membranacea j eotyledones soepissime alte pinnatim 5-lobatae, lobis 

 crassissimis carnosis multiform ibus deorsum attenuatis ; radical a 

 superior, elongata, recta, hirsuta, inter cotyledonum lobos erecta. — 

 Canarium edule, Hook. f. in Hook. Niger Flora, p. 285 ; Hiern, Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welw. 1, p. 127 ; Canarium Jfubafo, Ficalho in Bol. Soc. 

 Geogr. Lisboa, ser 2, p. 611, et PI. Ut. Afr. Portug. p. 115; 

 Canarium Saphu, Engl. Jahrb. XV. p. 99, cum figg. in textu, et t. 3 ; 

 Pachj/hbus Saphu, Engl, in Engl. & Prantl, Naturl. Pfi. Fam. iii. 4. 

 p. 243. 



West Tropical Africa : Island of St. Thomas, G. Don ; Old 

 Calabar, Thomson ; Cameroons, Mann; Preuss; Buchholz ; Cazengo, 

 Wehvitsch, 4482, 4483 ; Wathen Station or Ngombe, thirty-four 

 miles below Stanley Pool, Bentley. 



Canarium Schweinfurthii, Engl., a genuine Canarium, having a 

 thick, exceedingly dense and hard endocarp, has been confused with 

 Pachylobns edulis, G. Don. Both trees yield an edible fruit, and bear 

 similar or perhaps in some districts the same names ; and the leaves 

 are sufficiently alike to deceive a superficial observer. The first-named 

 is evidently very widely spread {Engl. PJt. Ost. Afr. B. pp. 199, 312 



