Pate 2299, 
STROMBOSIA PUSTULATA, Oliv. 
Otactnex. Tribe Otacez. 
S. pustulata, Oliv. (sp. nov.) ; glaberrima, ramulis teretibus, foliis 
petiolatis oblongo- vy. ovali-ellipticis breviter acuminatis sepe obtusius- 
culis costa in mucronem terminante supra (sub lente) minute pustu- 
in stylum staminibus squilongum a rupte angustato, cav 
ovulifera infera, fructibus subglobosis lobis calycinis marcidis apice 
coronatis, 
Has. West Tropical Africa, near Lagos, Rowland; Sierra Leone 
Boundary Commission, near Kambia, Scott-Elliot (No. 4,733). 
Folia 33-4 poll. longa, 15-2 poll lata, subcoriacea ; petiolus 3, poll. 
longus. Fructus 3-4 poll. diam. 
The only other described Tropical African Olacinea ascribed (with 
a ?) to Strombosia in the Kew Herbarium is S. grandifolia, Hook. f., 
of which we have no fruiting specimens. The leaves are much 
longer (5-8 inches long) than in 8. pustulata, the lateral nerves con- 
Spicuous above and below, with approximately parallel transverse 
veins, and there is no bie, : n 
upper surface, readily found under a du 
bably to moulding of the dry tissues of the leaf over cystolithic con- 
cretions.—D. OLIVER 
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ig. i leaf, showing upper surface. 2. Flower. 3. Petal and antipose 
ri Pep lag gens #7 Pistil. 6. Longitudinal section of pistil. 
- Seed. 8. Vertical section of same. Excepting fig. 7, enlarged. 
