ADDENDA. 



4rt. Celtis fragifera, A. Clur. in Ball. Soc. Bot. France, Ixi. J/e'm. 8e, 2«.)9. 

 A tree 90-120 ft. high, \\ith a quite cylindrical trunk 45-75 ft. high below 

 the branches, and 2\-3 ft. in diani. ; branches forming a rounded head. 

 Bark whitish. Young branchlets green, angled, puberulou^; and very 

 scabrid ; branches ash -coloured, with prominent \vhitc lenticels. Leaves 

 stalked, oval or oval-oblong, abruptly long-acuminate, acute, somewhat 

 wedge-shaped beloA\- from a rounded base, sometimes oblique, margin 

 entire or at the top slightly coarsely dentate, 3^—8 in. long, l^— 3] in. wide, 

 3-nerved at the base of the blade, with 2 additional lateral nerves above ; 

 firm but membranous in texture, uj)per face; beautifully gieen, and very 

 shining, the lower paler, very scabrid ; iriain nerves depressed above, 

 prominent beneath, lateral nerves nearly horizontal ; petiole terete, 

 channelled above, 31-5 lin. long, hnely puberulous-scabrid. Stipules 

 lanceolate, subulate, spurred at the base, 2\-3 lin. long. Fruiting i)ed- 

 uncles axillary, |-li in. long, 1 lin. thick, somewhat woody, glabrous, 

 ascending, bearing a single fruit. Drupe subrotund oi' obovoid, crowned at 

 the top with the remains of the styles, 10 lin. long, about 9 lin. in diam., 

 green when ripe, surface very slightly rough, with strawberry taste and smell ; 

 pulp dark green, somewhat gelatinous, 2-2^ lin. thick ; stone obovoid, 

 5 lin. across, the wall about | lin. thick, white, hard, very rough, enclo.sing 

 a roundish seed 4 lin. in diam., the thick fleshy cotyledons oily. 



Upper Guinea. Ivory (!oast : Vallec du Moycn Gemot', Wtwccn Tiiigout-la 

 and Assipasso, Chevalier, 22575. 



Native name " He'san.^' 



4^. Celtis compressa, A. (%cv. in Bull. Sor. Bot. Fravw, Ixi. Mem. 8f. 298. 

 A tine tree, 80 to 100 ft. high, with a cylmdrical trunk, winged at the ba.-e 

 and 30 to 60 ft. high below the branches, and 1-2A ft. in diam. Branthei> 

 grey, with white lenticels, when young very slender and ferruginously 

 pubescent. Leaves close together, obovate or oblong, acuminate with the 

 tip obtuse, often apiculate, rarely long and acute, base acutely wcxige- 

 shaped, margin entire or sometimes somewhat dcnlate above and on the 

 fertile branches, on fertile shoots broader and regularly toothed, 3-nerved, 

 with 3 to 4 ascending lateral nerves on each side above the l)a^e, in the 

 adult state quite glabrous except on the nerves, bright green and shining 

 on both sides ; nerves depressed above, puberulous, j)rominent l>eneath 

 and somewhat pubescent, nervation conspicuous below ; petiole \-\\ lin. 

 long, with ferruginous pubescence. Stipules lanceolate-subulate, 1 1-2! lin. 

 long, pubescent, soon falling. Fruits solitar}, a\illar\ ; pedicels slender, 

 puberulous, 2|-6 lin. long ; sepala often persisting at the base of the fruit. 



