PLatTe 2203. 
CACOUCIA PANICULATA, Laws. 
CombBretacez. Suborder Comsretenr. 
C. paniculata, Lawson in Oliv. Fl. Trop, Afr. ii. 484; frutex 
scandens, foliis i i pl 
cumdato, ovario sulcato tomentoso-pubescente, ovulis c. 4 longe 
funiculatis, fructibus siccis pentapteris late ellipticis alis coriaceis 
margine membranaceis. 
Has. W. Tropical Africa, Gaboon River, Mann, Soyauae (Nos. 108, 
158) ; Expedition to interior of Yoruba, Millson (No. 34). 
Folia 4-54 poll. longa, 14-2 poll. lata; petiolus 4-3 poll. longus. 
Panicule 1-2 ped. longer. Bractee 3-2 poll. longe. Flores cum 
ovario 7-1} poll. longi, decurvi. 
through the good offices of H.E. Governor Sir A. Moloney, show a 
fruit which is very different from that of Aublet’s South American 
Species, which has an ovoid or lanceolate-ovoid, more or less 6-angled 
fruit with corky pericarp, 2-23 inches in length. We have what 
be C. paniculata from Niamniam-land, communicated by Dr. 
Schweinfurth. . platyptera, Welw., MSS. from Angola, I take to be — 
identical.—D, Oniver. 
_Fig. 1. Calyx, laid open, 2. Petal. 3. Stamens. 4. Ovary and style. 5. Lon- 
gitudinal section of ovary. All enlarged, 
