792 L. Radlkofer. — Sapindaceae. 



Elliot in sched. n. 5147; Pecegueiro (fructus Pecego, i. e. Persica) Lusitanis t. 

 Ficalho 1. c. — Arbor parva, habitu palmarum (Hiern 1. c); folia magna, paripinnata, 

 5 — 7-juga, petiolo elongato tereti minutim puberulo; foliola obovato-oblonga, basi 

 cuneata, longe acuminata, integerrima, subcoriacea, nervis lateralibus (utrinque 12 — 15) 

 parum approximatis obliquis ante marginem anastomosantibus nervoque mediano 

 supra impresso subtus prominentibus, utrinque glabra nee nisi pilis conicis vel breviter 

 subulatis patentibus minutissimis sub microscopio tantum pereeptibilibus subtus ad- 

 spersa, nitidula, subfusca, struetura generis ; thyrsi e trunco enascentes medioeres 

 racemiformes nutantes, rhachi sulcata rüsco-tomentella dense cymulas perbreviter 

 stipitatas circ. 5-floras gerente, bracteis bracteolisque brevibus ovatis; alabastra sub- 

 globosa, breviter pedicellata, reflexa; flores generis; calyx subfusco-tomentellus, in 

 statu recenti roseo-scarlatinus (Hiern), intus dense ochraeeo-pubescens; petala 4( — 6), 

 lineari-oblonga, in unguem attenuata, apice denticulata, dorso subhirsuta, intus supra 

 unguem squama ereeta apice cucullato-reflexa interdum biloba crista corniformi sim- 

 plici vel in petalis intörmediis duplici pilosula instrueta secus medianam (ut interdum 

 et crista basi) laminae adnata subtus pilosula aueta; stamina 7 — 8, petala superantia, 

 hirsuta, antherae utrinque glabrae, connectivo dorso dilatato; germen (floris $ rudi- 

 mentarium dense pilosum) subgloboso-3-lobum, 3-loculare, dense fusco-pilosum, intus 

 secus loculorum dorsum pilis paucis adspersum, stylo subtriplo longiore subulato-fili- 

 formi adpresse pilosulo apice lineis 3 stigmatosis notato superatum; fructus magnus 

 coriaceo-baccatus, ex orbiculari transversim ellipticus, breviter apiculatus, vix stipita- 

 tus, late 3-lobatus, 3-locularis, lobis lateraliter compressis, siccis crustaeeis transversim 

 rugosis, pilis minutis clavatis paehydermicis fusco-ferrugineis dense vestitus (quasi 

 granulatus), intus setis tubulosis adspersus; semen generis orbiculare, compressum, 

 numuliforme. 



Arbor 5 — 6 m alta. Foliola majora cum petiolulis 6 mm longis 35 — 45 cm longa, 

 7 — 10 cm lata. Thyrsi 7 — 10 cm longi. Calyx 6 mm longus; petala 8 mm longa, 1,5 mm 

 lata. Fructus edulis, 3 cm altus, 4 cm latus, loculis (siccis) 8 mm crassis. Semina 

 venenosa (t. Greshoff 1. c), circ. 2 cm longa, 1,8 cm lata, 4 mm crassa. 



In Africa tropica occidentali: Barter n.1958! (Prince's Island, Niger Exped. 

 a. 1859, fr. juv.; Hb. Kew., ut et seqq.); Mann n. Uli! (ibid., a. 1871, fr.); id. n. 1835! 

 (Banks of the river Muni, m. Sept. 1862); Welwitsch n. 1689! (Prince's Island, in 

 wooded places at elevation of 300 — 400 feet, in plantations of Theobroma cacao L., 

 m. Sept. 1853, fl.), n. 1688! (Island of St. Thomas, in mountainous places, Monte Caffe, 

 m. Dec. 1860, fl.), n. 1690!*) (Golungo Alto, abundant in primitive forests at 2000 to 

 2300 feet alt., near Sänge, at Capopa, m. Aug. 1855, fl. <£); Klaine n. 201! (Libreville, 

 m. Oct. 1895, fl. et fr.). — Cf. etiam Fr. Pellegrin, Fl. du Mayombe, in Mem. Soc. 

 Linn. Normandie XXVI. 2. (1924) 70 (speeimina a cl. Le Testu collecta). 



15. Ch. carneus Radlk. in Wiss. Ergebn. Afr.-Exp. 1907 — 1908, II. (1912) 478. — 

 Arbuscula parva, trunco simplici, foliis in comam apicalem congestis; folia magna, 

 paripinnata, 6 — 8?-juga, petiolo elongato rhachique teretibus subtiliter striatis lenti- 

 cellosis sub lente pulverulento-puberulis; foliola inferiora late ovato-lanceolata, acuta, 

 basi rotundata petiolulis crassiusculis transversim rugosis pilosulis insidentia, foliola 

 superiora elongata, ex obovato-oblongo cuneata, acuminata, basi inaequalia, latere 



*) Speeimina Welwitsch n. 1690 (Angola) et Mann n. 1835 (Gabonia, River Muni) speciem 

 propriam sistere dieuntur : Ch. Welwitschii Exell, Gossweiler's PI. (Suppl. I. Journ. of Bot.) (1928) 85; 

 diagnosi latinae addita differentia speeifica ut sequitur : »The species differs from Ch. Mannii Hook, f., 

 which is apparently confined to Prince's Island and to the Island of St. Thomas, in having some- 

 what smaller leaflets which are much more abruptly acuminate, a less distinctly urceolate calyx, 

 a smoother tomentum on the inflorescences and shorter, relatively broader petals.« Additur spe- 

 cialen Gossweiler n. 5429 (Angola, Monte Bello). Indicantur porro sub Ch. Welwitschii Exell 

 speeimina sequentia in Congo lusitanico collecta: Gossweiler n. 6734 (Buco Zau), n. 6180, 

 n. 8166 (River Chiluango, prope Chinfim). 



