Pancovia. 803 



superantes, flavescenti- vel canescenti-puberuli, a basi sat dense cincinnos sessiles 

 gerentes; alabastra ovalia, sordide canescenti-tomentella; flores majores, longiuscule 

 pedicellati; calyx breviter campanulatus, modo generis 5-partitus, partibus anguste 

 deltoideis extus dense intus laxe canescenti-tomentellis; petala generis 4 (rarissime 5), 

 albido-rosea, ungue intus laxe piloso; discus semilunaris, pulvinatus, glaber; stamina 

 6 — 8, inferne hirtella; germen 3-gono-globosum, canescenti-tomentosum. 



Arbor 15 — 20 pedes alta (Guillem. et Perrott.). Rami circ. 6 mm crassi. Folia 

 petiolo 2 — 3,5 cm longo adjecto 12 — 25 cm longa; foliola superiora cum petiolulis circ. 

 5 mm longis 10—18 cm longa, 4 — 8 cm lata. Thyrsi 2 — 4 cm longi. Alabastra 4 mm 

 longa, 3 mm lata; pedicelli florigeri 5 — 8 mm longi. 



In Senegambia et Guinea superiore: Isert! (Guinea, circ. 1783 — 1786, flor.; 

 Hb. Willd. n. 7126); Perrottet! (Senegambia, frequens in siccis super strata ostrearum 

 ad ripas Casamanciae, circa fornaces ad calcem conficiendam, haud procul ab Itou, 

 m. Apr. et Maj. 1830, flor.: Hb. Paris., Deless.); Warnecke n. 67! (Togo: Lome, m. 

 Febr. 1900, flor.; Hb. Berol. et ex hoc comm.). — Cf. etiam Hutchinson and Dalziel, 

 Fl. West Trop. Afr. I. 2. (1928) 504. 



3. P. pedicellaris Radlk. et Gilg ed. Gilg in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XXIV. (1897) 

 302. — P. turbinata, non Radlk., Gilg in sched. coli. Staudt n. 596! et in Engler's Bot. 

 Jahrb. 1. c. in obs., quoad coli. Zenker n. 766! — Vulgo: Scho(k)eli ex Tessmann 

 in scheda. — Frutex arborescens, ligno durissimo; rami teretes, leviter striati, glabri, 

 laxe lenticelloso-punctati, cortice subfusco; folia 2 — 4-juga, sat petiolata, petiolo basi 

 incrassato rhachique teretibus striatis subfuscis glabris; foliola lanceolata vel elliptico- 

 lanceolata, acute acuminata, conspicue petiolulata, petiolulis crassiusculis rugulosis, 

 chartaceo-subcoriacea, nervis lateralibus arcuato-adscendentibus retique venarum 

 subtus prominulis, glabra, supra sublaevia livescentia, nitida, cellulis secretoriis in 

 pneumatenchymate tantum obviis vel nullis (in specim. a Tessmann lect.), epidermide 

 mucigera, in pagina inferiore tantum pilis obverse clavelliformibus bulbosis minutis 

 ornata; thyrsi axillares, petiolos paullo superantes, sufferrugineo-tomentelli, rhachi 

 subangulata, laxe cincinnos sessiles 2 — 5-floros gerentes; alabastra ovoidea, sordide 

 tomentella; flores majores, in pedicellos tenues longiusculos abrupte contracti; calyx 

 breviter campanulatus, profunde 5 (vel in flor. <$ 4)-partitus, partibus ovatis utrinque 

 pulverulento-tomentellis; petala generis 4, ungue intus dense pubescente; discus 

 semilunaris, pulvinatus, glaber; stamina 8, fere usque ad apices hirtella; germen 

 3-gono-globosum, dense flavescenti-albido-tomentosum. 



Frutex arborescens 5 — 10 m altus. Rami circ. 7 mm crassi. Folia petiolo 4 — 9 cm 

 longo adjecto 15 — 36 cm longa; foliola cum petiolulis 5 — 6 mm longis 8 — 18 cm longa, 

 3— 6 cm lata. Thyrsi 4 — 7 cm longi. Alabastra 3 mm longa, 2,5 mm lata; pedicelli 

 3—4 mm longi. 



In Kamerun et in Guinea hispanica: Staudt n.596! ( Johann- Albrechtshöhe, 

 Seegebirge, m. Febr. 1896; Hb. Berol. etc.), n. 798! (ibid., m. Jan. 1897, flor.; Hb. 

 Berol.); Zenker n.766! (Yaünde, in silva primaeva, alt. 800 m, m. Febr. 1895, alab.; 

 Hb. Berol.); Tessmann, B 150! (Spanisch-Guinea-Hinterland, Nkolentangan ad Aleü, 

 alt. 450 m, m. Jan. 1908, fl.; Hb. Berol.). — Cf. etiam Hutchinson and Dalziel, Fl. 

 West Trop. Afr. I. 2. (1928) 504. 



4. P. polyantha Gilg msc. in Hb. Berol. et in Engler, Pflanzenwelt Afr. III. 2. 

 (1921) 276; Hutchinson and Dalziel, Fl. West Trop. Afr. I. 2. (1928) 504. - Frutex?; 

 folia 3 — 4-juga, longe petiolata, petiolo basi incrassato rhachique teretibus striatis 

 glabris, foliola inferiora ovato-lanceolata, superiora ex elliptico-oblongo subcuneata, 

 omnia acute acuminata, conspicue petiolulata, petiolulis crassiusculis rugulosis, char- 

 tacea, nervis lateralibus arcuato-adscendentibus retique venarum subtus prominulis, 

 glabra, supra sublaevia, nitida, livescentia, subtus opaca, cellulis secretoriis destituta, 

 epidermide mucigera, in pagina inferiore tantum pilis obverse clavelliformibus bulbosis 

 minutis ornata; thyrsi ad nodos foliorum delapsorum enascentes, elongati, sordide 



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