AtUiaris.] cxxiik. MOiiACEiE (Hutchinson). 225 



liciid depressed-dilated, very ample and majestic, ev^ergreen ; trunk 

 straight, bare of branches up to 15-20 ft. from the ground, patently 

 branched above, lower branches almost horizontal or even drooping, 

 the upper erect -spreading ; young branchlets flexuous, coarsely 

 ribbed when dry, very slightly pubescent. Leaves oblong-elliptic, 

 rounded or very shortly acuminate at the apex, slightly unequal and 

 rounded or truncate at the base, 2-4 in. long, 1-2^ in. broad, entire, 

 chartaceous, minutely puberulous and coppery-red below ; lateral 

 nerves 7-1 1 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it at an angle 

 of 45° or more, arcuate, prominent below ; veins very lax ; petiole 3-4 

 lin. long:, finely puberulous ; stipules caducous. Flowers dioecious. 

 Male receptacles borne on the young annual shoots, shortly peduncu- 

 late, discoid with many bracts on the margin. Anthers sessile, ovate. 

 Female receptacles borne on the young shoots, shortly pedunculate. 

 Young fruits greenish, tipped with a long 2 -fid style or rarely with 

 several styles ; ripe fi'uits drupaceous, obovoid, about | in. long and 

 I in. in diam., shortly pedunculate, mucronate, one-seeded, softly 

 velvety-tomentose, orange-red when fresh ; embryo large, white ; 

 all parts of the tree, especially the fruit, exuding a viscid resinous 

 whitish milk. — Ipo toxicaria, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 1020, 

 excl. syn., not of Pers. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto ; forests of the Alto Qucta Moun- 

 tains, Wehvitsch, 2593 ! 



The description of the habit of this tree has been taken from the Welwitsch 

 Catalogue, and that of the male receptacles from Engler. 



14. TRECULIA, Decne ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 374. 



Flowers dioecious, capitate in both sexes, arranged on the outside 

 of and densely surrounded by the bracts of the fleshy receptacle, 

 the head shortly stalked with a few bracts at the base. Male flowers : 

 Perianth tubular, membranous, 2-4-fid at the apex or dentate, 

 thickened at the base. Stamens 2-4, often 3, sometimes one im- 

 perfectly developed ; anthers oblong or ovate, erect, exserted. 

 Rudimentary ovary 0. Female flowers : Perianth 0. Ovary ovoid, 

 enclosed by the fleshy receptacle or the bracts ; st} le subulate, 

 with stigmatose exserted filiform branches ; ovule pendulous from 

 the apex. Fruit a syncarp, globose, sometimes very large, bristly 

 with the bracts surrounding the flowers ; achenes in an indefinite 

 series in the fleshy part of the syncarp ; pericarp membranous. 

 Seeds ovoid or ellipsoid, with a membranous testa ; albumen ; 

 embryo with unequal cotyledons. -Trees or shrubs, glabrous or 

 hairy. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, entii'e, coriaceous or 

 chartaceous, penninerved ; stipules lanceolate, caducous. Flower- 

 heads in the leaf-axils or at leafless nodes, sessile or shortly pedun- 

 culate. Bracts below the head few, small, sub-2-seriate, not forming 



FL. TROP. AFR. VI. SECT. II. I 



