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412, 475), ranging from near the west coast in Angola eastward to 

 the lakes and northward to Uganda. Pachylobus edulis is cultivated 

 from St. Thomas and the Cameroons to the Congo, at least ; and it is 

 figured here in consequence of Kew having received from the Rev. W. 

 H. Bentley, of the Congo Baptist Mission, fruits purporting to repre- 

 sent the wild and cultivated varieties of the same tree ; in reality the 

 fruits of the two trees under consideration. Numerous specimens 

 from different localities seem to establish the specific identity of 

 P. Saphu with P. edulis. Indeed, Don's original specimen of the 

 latter is labelled < safu ; ' and Don states (loc. sup. cit.) that the tree 

 was a native of St. Thomas, and its fruit was sold in the island under 

 that name. By an oversight the radicle of Pachylobus is described 

 as the plumule (Stammchm) both in Engler's Jahrb iicher, as cited 



W. Bottixg Hemsley. 



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Plate 2566 : Fig. 1, a cluster of male flower- A Hralsize. 



Plate 2567 : Fig. 1, a male flower; 2, a hair from the same ; 3, andrcecium of the 

 same; 4, a iemale or pseudo-hermaphrodite flower; 5, genitalia of the same- 6 

 vertical section of ovary ; 7, a fruit; 8, a fruit from which a part of the pericarp has 

 been removed showing the embryo from which the testa has been removed ; 9 the 

 embryo seen from the reverse side; 10, side view of the same; 11, the same in 'sec- 

 tion ; 12, embryo from which several of the cotyledonary lobes have been removed 

 .lowing the long hairy radicle directed upwards; 13, radicle lying in a groove of one 

 of the cotyledonary lobes; It, a single lobe; 15, part of radicle and slightly 

 developed plumule of a germinating embryo. Figures 1-6 enlarged: 7-15 natural 



size. 



