218 cxxiiic. MORACE.E (Hutchinson). [Bosqueia. 



apiculate. Female flower solitary and sunk in the middle of the 

 receptacle. Perianth 0. Style exserted, 2-3-lobed ; ovule pendu- 

 lous from the apex of the cell. Fruit inferior ; pericarp composed 

 of the adnate persistent receptacle ; pyrene rhomboid, 4-angled, 

 beaked by the persistent style. Mature seed not seen. — Trees. 

 Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, entire, coriaceous, penninerved ; 

 stipules intrapetiolar, caducous. Receptacles solitary in the leaf- 

 axils, subsessile or shortly pedunculate, margin shortly lobed. 



A genus of 5 species, two from Madagascar, one from the Seychelles, and two 

 in Tropical Africa. 



Anthers mucronate, f lin. long, as long as the fila- 

 ments ; leaves mostly somewhat obovate ... 1. B. nngolerfsis. 



Anthers not mucronate, scarcelj' ', lin. long, very 

 many times shorter than the filaments ; loaves 

 mostly elliptic 2. B. Phoheros. 



1. B. angolensis, Ficalho, PI. Uteis, 271. A tree 20-50 ft. 

 high or sometimes more, often with the trunk quite bare of branches 

 up to nearly half its height ; head loosely pyramidal ; branches and 

 branchlets spreading ; young branchlets terete, ashy-grey when 

 dry, glabrous. Leaves elliptic or sUghtly obovate-elliptic, very 

 shortly cuneate at the base, obtusely acuminate, 2-6J in. long, 

 1-3 in. broad, entire, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, 

 shining and darker above, pale beneath ; midrib prominent on both 

 surfaces, tapering towards the apex ; lateral nerves about 7 on each 

 side of the midrib, nearly equally prominent on both surfaces, very 

 arcuate, looped ; veins lax, distinct ; petiole 4-5 lin. long, glabrous ; 

 stipules caducous, lanceolate, obtuse, about 4 lin. long, coriaceous, 

 glabrous. Receptacles axillarj'', solitary, pedunculate ; bract at the 

 base of the peduncle cupular, enclosing the head of flowers when 

 young, at length bursting on one side, coriaceous, about J in. long, 

 glabrous ; peduncle J in. long, fairly stout, glabrous. Involucre 

 cupular, fleshy at the base, membranous towards the margin, variously 

 cleft, glabrous. Bracts between the stamens oblong-oblanceolate, 

 laciniately cleft at the apex, membranous, exceeding the anthers, 

 glabrous. Filaments | lin. long, glabrous ; anthers J lin. long, 

 apiculate. Female perianth short and tubular, acutely 5-cleft at 

 the apex. Ovary immersed in the receptacle ; style stout, deeply 

 bifurcate, branches flattened, variously twisted, rosy-velvety and 

 stigmatose on the inner face. Fruit drupaceous, about f in. long, 

 obliquely ellipsoid, striate, glabrous. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 

 1019 ; De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me ser. i. 839. 

 Centrogyne angolensis, Welw. ex Benth. & Hook, f . Gen.- PI. iii. 370. 

 Bosqueia Welwitschii, Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 36. and in Engl. 

 Jahrb. li. 439, fig. 5, A-E. 



Upper Guinea. Caraeroons : forest of Compenda near Mundamo, Buesqen 

 (fide Engler). 

 Lower Guinea. Lower Congo : Kisantu, Gillet, 930. Angola : Golungo 



