Plate 2339. 



LEPTAULUS DAPHNOIDES, Benth. 



Olacixe.e. Tribe Icacine.e. 

 I. daphnoides, Benth. Gen. Plant, i. 351; frutex 10-15-pedalis 



glaber v. novellis pul)erulis, foliis alternis petiolatis tenuiter coriaceia 

 oblongo-ellipticis obtuse v. interclum acutiuscule acuniinatis caudatisve, 

 cymis multifloris sessilibus v. brevissime pedunculatis extra-axillaribus, 

 floribus breviter petlicellatis v. subsessilibus, calyce parvo 5-partito 

 iructifero immutato, segmentis calycinis ovatis acutiusculis, corolla? 

 tubulosse tube teretiusculo lobis brevibus ovato lanceolatis, antheris 

 ore corollse tubi insertis subsessilibus oblongis, ovario angusto in 

 stylum longum gracile attenuate, stigiuate leviter dilatato breviter 

 exserto, ovulis geniinatis pendulis, fructibus ovoideis acutatis glabris 

 ^- obsolete puberulis 1-spemiis, semine conformi longitudinaliter 

 ^■sulcato, albumine caruuso, embi-yone minimo radicula supera, 

 Pericarpio tenuiter carnoso endocarpio tenue crustaceo v. osseo. 



Hab. W. Tropical Africa, Eagroo -River, Mann (No. 806), Sibange 

 J''im on tlie iinhoon^Royavx (No. 164) ; Monhntt\x-\a,ix^, Schveinfurth 

 \^o. 3464) ; Sierra Leone, Scott-Elliot. 



Folia (4--)4-5 poll, longa, U-lf poll. lata; petiolus \-\ poll, 

 "gus. Flares \ poll, longi. Fructus 5-6 lin. longus, basi calyce 



lo 



iinniutato persistente stipatus. 



^^ar. macrojyhjUa (an species distincta ?), foliis 9-11 poll, longis, 

 nl n P*"^^- ^*^i^' floribus subsessilibus, lobis calycinis lanceolatis tubo 

 <=oroIls valide sulcato, fructu oblongo-ovoideo apiculato l-l^ poU. longo. 



Sab. Mount John, Kongui River, Mayin (No. 1781). 



A shrub with the fades of some of the axillary-flowered species of 

 ^^^trum. In the ' Flora of Tropical Africa ' I indicated the differences 

 ^^t^een the Kongui specimens and the type, but more recently spex:i- 

 lu tif ''' ^^"^^ J^^^« «ome to hand from M. Soyaux, which would almost 

 C;^,'P«^ifi« separation of the form referred to '"^^f^.^^™/; 

 l^yhUa. The flowers of Leptanlus are extra -axillary, but inserted 

 pel ""T ^^^« ^^^-^l of the petioles. M. Baillon describes another 

 £ ^^ *^^« «""«"s genus in 'Adansonia' (iii. 375, adnot.) from 



l^Flower. 2. Pisul. 3. Corolla kid open. 4. Longitudinal section of 



^^'- All enlurgcd. 



