Bosqiceia.] cxxiiic MORACEiE (Hutchinson). 219 



Alto ; baee of the Serra de Alto Queta, Welwitsch, 456 ! banks of the River Cuango 

 near Sange, Welwitsch, 457 ! 458 ! Cazongo district, GossweiU>r, 608 ! 754 ! 

 4513 ! 4867 ! 



South Central. Belgian ('x)ngo : Kasai district • on the Sankuni River, 

 Ledernuinn (fide Engler). 



In all probability the genus Pontya, A. Chevalier (P. txcelsa, A. Choval. 

 Veget. Ut. Afr. Fran9. fasc. v. 263, name only, and in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 

 1911, Mem. viii. d. 210), is a Bosqneia and perhaps the same as B. ayigolensis. 

 (^hevalier's generic description is not quite definite, but he assigns the genus to 

 the tribe Artocarpece, and the description of the species seems to tally with 

 B. angolensis, though this plant had npt hitherto been gathered north of the 

 Cameroons. 



We have not been able to examine any of the specimens f)f Pontyo, collected 

 by Chevalier in the following localities : — 



Upper Guinea. French Guinea : in the forest between Lola and Nzo 

 Chevalier, 20990 ; Kissi district ; between Curia and the Doffc River, Chevalier 

 20765. Ivory Coast : Morenou, Chevalier, 22480 ; Indenie, Zaranou, Chevalier, 

 16278. Dahomey : near Savalou, Pira, Chevalier, 23748 ; Savalou, between 

 Cabole and Bassila, Chevalier, 23785 ;• near Djougou, Chevalier, 23885. 



2. B. Phoberos, Baill. Adamonia, viii. 72, t. iv. A large tree, up to 

 80 ft. high ; branches and branchlets terete, covered with a light grey 

 glabrous bark. Leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rounded or obtuse 

 at the base, shortly and very obtusely acuminate, 2^-4 in. long, 

 1-2 in. broad, entire, chartaceous, shining on the upper surface, 

 glabrous ; midrib prominent on both surfaces, gradually tapered 

 to the apex ; lateral nerves 5-6 on each side of the midrib, diverging 

 at an angle of about 65°, looped some distance from the margin, 

 slender, distinct on both surfaces ; veins very lax and indistinct ; 

 petiole 4-5 lin. long, concave on the upper surface, glabrous ; stipules 

 caducous, the terminal one enclosing the young bud, lanceolate, 

 3-4 lin. long, glabrous. Receptacles axillary, solitar} , shortly 

 pedunculate ; bract at the base of the peduncle cupular, enclosing 

 the head of flowers when young, soon falling away, about 2 lin. long, 

 coriaceous, glabrous ; peduncle 1-lJ lin. long, glabrous. Involucre 

 fleshy at the base with the ovary immersed in it, with membranous 

 toothed limb, glabrous. Male flowers numerous. Filaments slender, 

 filiform, about 2 lin. long, glabrous ; anthers very small, creamy 

 white, purple around the styles, elliptic, obtuse, scarcely J lin. long. 

 Bracts surrounding the style connate into a tube nearly as long as 

 the stamens, laciniately toothed on the margin, submembranous, 

 glabrous. Style exserted, stout, deeply 2-lobed or rarely 3-lobed ; 

 lobes about If lin. long. Fruit pedunculate, obliquely elHpsoid, f in. 

 long. — Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 36 ; Rendle in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xl. 206. B. cerasiflora, Volk. ex Engl. I.e. and in Engl. Jahrb. 11. 

 439, fig. 5, F-H. 



Nile Land. Uganda : Kirgema, Dfimmer, 197 ! British Ea^t Africa : 

 Mombasa, Bovin. 



Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar ; Boivin, Lyne, 96 ! German East Africa : 

 Shira, Volkens, 1935 ! Portuguese East Africa : Oazaland ; Mount .Mnnuna, 

 3500 ft. Sivynnerton, 687 ! 



