Linocie7'a.] lxxxii. oleace^ (bakee). 19 



4. LINOCIERA, Sw. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 678. 



Calyx small, campanulate, deeply 4-lobed. Petals 4, linear-oblong, 

 induplicate-valvate, nearly free. Stamens 2, insei-ted at the base of 

 the petals ; filaments very short. Ovary 2-celled ; style very short ; 

 stigma capitate, entire or emarginate ; ovules 2 in a cell, pendulous 

 from the apex of the dissepiment. Fruit drupaceous ; pericarp bony 

 or crustaceous. Seeds usually solitary, pendulous, albuminous or ex- 

 albuminous ; testa thin or moderately thick ; cotyledons flat or fleshy ; 

 radicle superior. — Trees or erect shrubs. Leaves simple, opposite, entire. 

 Flowers small, usually panicled. — Mayepea, Aubl. PI. Guin. i. 81. 



Species 40, spread through the tropics of both hemispheres, 1 each in Nat il ami 

 Bourbon. 



Corolla-tube very short. 



Flowers in terminal panicles . . . . . 1. X. urophylla. 



Flowers both in lateral and terminal panicles . . 2. i. Mannii. 



Flowers all in later,tl f)anicles, 



Khachis of panicle glabrous . . . . 3. Z. nilotica. 



Khachis of panicle pubescent. 



Leaves oblanceolate-oblong . . . . 4. X. angolensis. 



Leaves oblouir . . . . . . 5. X. Johnsoni. 



Flowers in axillary clustei"s . . . . . 6. X. congesta. 



Corolla-tube haU" as long as the lobes . . . . 7. X. Welwitschii. 



1. L. urophylla, Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xxx. 373. A tall tree, 

 glabrous in all its parts, with smooth grey bark. Leaves distinctly 

 petioled, lanceolate, 2-3 in. long, |-Jin. broad, conspicuously acuminate, 

 narrowed gradually to the base, entire, subcoriaceous, shining on the 

 upper surface, opaque beneath ; veins few, conspicuous on the under- 

 side of the leaf . Panicles lax, terminal. Calyx subcampanulate, nearly 

 entire, |^ lin. long. Petals ovate or oblong, twice as long as the calyx, 

 spreading. Anthers sessile. 



Mozamb. Sist. German East Africa: Upper Kondeland ; Usenga Moun- 

 tains, at Unialila, 6500 ft., Goetze, 1364. 



X. gilgiana, Volkens, from Mount Kilimanjaro, mentioned by Oilg in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxx. 37-^, has also a terminal inflorescence, but has not further been 

 described. 



2. L. yL^TTcAS.^ SoUreder in Bot. Gentralh. xlvi. (1891) 17. A small 

 tree, with glabrous branch lets. Leaves simple, opposite, oblong, sub- 

 acute, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 2-4 in. long, cuneate at the base ; 

 petiole very short. Panicles very abundant, lateral and terminal, 1-2 

 in. long ; rhachises pubescent ; bracts oblong-navicular, minute, persis- 

 tent ; pedicels very short. Calyx pubescent, J lin. long ; tube very 

 short ; segments ovate. Petals J in. long. Sty]« very shoit. — 

 Mayepea Mannii, Knobl. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 529. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : near the Scarcies River, Scott-EUiot, 4717 ! 

 IiO\irer Guinea. Gaboon : banks of the Gaboon River, Mann, 949 I 



3. L. nilotica^ Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 106, ^.117. A 

 tall tree, with a trunk 0-8 ft. in girth ; branchlets glabrous, whitish. 



