Scyphosyce.] cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Hutchinson). 221 



long. Female flower solitary, ses.sile in the bottom of tlie invuiucre ; 

 l)criantli-segments 2, free, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, IJ lin. long, J lin. 

 broad, submembranous, strongly 6-ribbed on the back, slightly 

 puberulous in the upper part outside, minutely ciliate in the upper 

 half. Ovary narrowly ovoid, glabrous ; style laterally inserted, 

 reaching to the middle of the anthers, glabrous, 2-lobed, lobes 

 spreading, papillose. Fruit ovoid, about 2 lin. long, smooth. — Baill. 

 Hist. PI. vi. 207 ; Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 30. Cyaihaiilhus 

 Zenkeri, Engl, in Pflanzenfam. Nachtriige, i. zu ii.-iv. 120. Scyphosyce 

 Zenkeri, Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afi\ 31, t. x. 



Lower Ooinea. Gaboon : Sierra del Crystal, Mann, 1727 ! 

 Upper Guinea. Camcroons : Bipinde ; in deep shady forest near Undua, 

 Zenker, 905 ! 2700 ! 3961 ! 



I have not succeeded in discovering any tangible ditference between the type 

 oi S. manniana and the plant described by Engler as IS. Zenkeri. Engler says 

 that his plant is more hairy and has larger leaves and stijjules than in S. ituin- 

 niana, but no such differences are evident in the Kew si^eeiniens. 



Engler figures the filaments of *S'. Zenkeri as being papillose, but he does not 

 mention the fact in his description ; in the type number at Kew they are 

 quite glabrous. 



2. S. pandurata, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1917, ined. Branch- 

 lets fairly slender, glabrous, with transversely peeling bark, sulcate. 

 Leaves pandurate, broadly ovate in the upper half and gradually 

 and obtusely pointed, abruptly narrowed to the base from about the 

 middle, 4-5 in. long, 1^-2 in. broad, chartaceous, entire, light green 

 above, paler below, glabrous and dull on both smfaces ; lateral 

 nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, spreading fi'om it at a 

 wide angle, looped and branched within the margin ; veins lax 

 below% straw-colouied ; petiole 2-3 lin. long, curved, glabrous ; 

 stipules persistent, lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 3 lin. long, H lin. 

 broad, submembranous, pm-plish-brown when dry, glabrous. Re- 

 ceptacles axillary, solitary, pedunculate, ellipsoid-obconic, about 2 lin. 

 long, glabrous ; peduncle 2|~4 lin. long, minutely puberulous. 

 Anthers exserted from the receptacle, about J- lin. long. 



Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria : Oban, Talbot, 1315 ! 2317 ! 



12. MESOGYNE, Engl, in Engl. Jahib. xx. 147. 



Flowers monoecious in unisexual receptacles. Male: perianth 3— 1- 

 lobed. Stamens as many as and opposite to the perianth-lobes which 

 they exceed, free, erect in bud; anthers cordate, ceils parallel, 

 opening longitudinally. Female without perianth ; ovary included 

 in the receptacle with which it is united ir» the lower portion ; style 

 terminal, bearing a pair- of stigmas which spread from the mouth 

 of the receptacle. Ovule sohtury, pendulous from the apex of the 

 cell. Fruit adnate to the receptacle, globose or ellipsoid, narrowing 



