Picralima.] Lxxxiv. apocyxace.e (staff). 97 



Corolla-tube long, glabrous outside, loosely pubescent within in the 

 middle third, 7-1) lin. long ; lobes about as long as the tube. Anthers 

 1^ lin. long. Style (including the stigma) 4 lin. long. Berries 4-G in. 

 long, ^>-4 in. in diam. Seeds about 1 in. long. — K. Sebum, in Engl. 

 & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 284; Ergiinz. i. GO; Hook. Ic. PI. tt. 

 2745-(>. Tahtriut'niontana nitida, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 22, 

 & in De Wild. 6: Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo in Ann. Mus. Congo, Lot. 

 ser. 2, i. fasc. i. o9 ; De Wild. & Durand, Reliq. Devvevr. in Ann. 

 Mus. Congo, Bot. ser. 3, fasc. ii. !;');>. 



Upper G-uinea. Old Calabar, Sofjb ! Cameroons : Ainbas Bay, Mann, 710 J 



Xiower Guinea. Gaboon: Mount Bouet, near Libreville, Jolly, 27; Klaine^ 

 299! 



South Central. Congo Free State : Lukolela, Dewecre, 847 ! Lokandu, 

 Dewevre, 1113 ! 



There are 2 leaves in the herbarium at Brussels, accompanied by a coloured 

 drawing by Deineuse (105), named Hv.nteria sp., Hallier f., and referred to by bira 

 as Hiinteria in his Kautschuklianen, 190. These leaves were collected near the 

 Sankuru River in the Congo Free State, and differ only slightly in their dimensions 

 from those of Khiine's specimens. The drawing represents a green pear-sh:ii)ed 

 fruit \ natural size. The measures calcuhited from it are : — lOf in. long and 65- in. 

 wide. The pericarp is shown thick and the seeds somewhat apymmctrioally oblong- 

 elliptic in outline, 14 lin. long, Qk lin. wide. Demeiise's ])lant is, no doubt, a 

 Picralima, and possibly identical with P. klaineana. 



8. PLEIOCARPA, Benth. in Bentb. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, ii. 



699. 



Calyx small, eglandular ; sepals 5, almost or quite free, sub- 

 membranous except at the herbaceous base, obtuse or acute. Corolla 

 s-ilver-sliaped ; tube cylindric, slightly widened below the mouth ; 

 lobes T), overlapping to the left. Stamens enclosed in the widened part 

 of the corolla-tube ; anthers free from the stigma, ovate to oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute ; cells obtuse at and dehiscing to the base. Disc 0. 

 Carpels 2-5, distinct ; style filiform; stigma at the level of the anthers, 

 oblong-ellipsoid, papillose, not or very obscurely apiculate; ovules 1-4 

 in each cell. Mericarps baccate, fleshy, coriaceous when dry, spreading, 

 often rugose, 1- or 2- (rarely 3-) seeded. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, slightly 

 laterally compressed ; testa membranous ; endosperm almost horny ; 

 cotyledons very thin, foliaceous, oblong ; radicle thickened at the base, 

 as long as or slightly longer than the cotyledons. — Glabrous shrubs or 

 small trees. Leaves opposite or ternate, coriaceous ; lateral nerves 

 rather straight and parallel, usually numerous, connected by a more or 

 less conspicuous marginal nerve ; axillary stipules ; axillary glands 

 very obscure or 0. Flowers in sessile axillary and oftep opposite (rarely 

 pseudo-terminal) clusters, very rarely in compact panicles or pseudo- 

 umbels. 



Species 9, besides several imperfectly known, endemic. 



Corolla ^-2 in. long. Carpels 3-5, 1— 1-ovuled. 

 Leaves oblong or ellii)tlc, lr,-3.^, in. broad. 



