358 ADDENDA. 



Seed one, with the hilum on the upper side ; integument thin, membranous, 

 \vith rather fleshy endosperm ; radicle inferior. Leaves alternate, stipu- 

 late ; stipules caducous ; latex evidently absent. 



S|)ocios 1 , endemic. 



1. D. paradoxa, A. Chcv. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, \xi. Mem. Se, 298. 

 A small shrub 3-4^ ft. high, everywhere glabrous. Stems slender, tough, 

 branched at the apex, evidently without Avhitish latex in coi-tex. Leaves 

 alternate, petiolato, oblong-acuminate, subacute, rounded or wedge-shaped 

 at the base, 4.^-7 in. long, 1$-2| in. broad, papery, very slightly crenul ate ; 

 midrib conspicuous on both surfaces, with 7-8 pairs of lateral nerves ; 

 venation not at all prominent. ; petiole 2-3 lin. long, deeply channelled 

 above ; stipules lanceolate, very acute, about 1 lin. long, caducous. Re- 

 ceptacle woody, solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, },-f in. long, i-| 

 in. broad and subtriangular at the apex, divided into 3 thick short rounded 

 lobes, clothed \\ it'h flowers on the whole surface and also below. Involucre 

 absent. Female flowers not more than A lin. in diam., sessile, clustered on 

 small swellings of the receptacle, inserted in the axils of scariose ovate-acute 

 i lin. -long bracts. Sepals 4-5, suborbicular, concave, >. lin. long, much 

 imbricate, supported on the outside by 2-3 scarious bracts. Ovary J lin. in 

 diam., flattened and disc-like. Fruit with peduncles ^\;-J in. long, articulate 

 above the receptacle, at first of a dull green, Avhen mature red, glabrous, 

 spherical or somewhat turbinate at the base, 5-6 lin. in diam., with a 

 fleshy exocarp, and a woody whitish -yellow endocarp about 1 lin. thick. 

 *' Nucellus " fleshy ; cotyledons 2, leafy, whitish, heart-shaped. 



Upper Guinea. Ivory Coast : valley of the Agnieby at Accrediou, 3 Feb. 

 1907, Chevalier, 17113; Fryraakougne station, in the forest, 27 Jan. 1907, 

 Chevalier, 17192 ; Dyola country, on the bank of the Boan river, near Danane, 

 10 Apr. 1909, Chevalier, 2J277. ' 



Known to us only from Chevalier's description. No suggestion is offered by 

 the author as to the precise aflinity of the plant. 



3a. Urera sarmentosa, A. Chev. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Ixi. Mdm. 

 Be, 302. A dioc€ious woody plant, sarmentose, climbing, 10-16 ft. long. 

 Stems ash-colour, subtriquetrous, 2-3\ lin. thick, bearing a pair of gibbous 

 vesicles ^1—2^ lin. in diam. (? galls) at the points of division. Young 

 branches glabrous or slightly puberulous at the top. Leaves long-stalked, 

 thinly membranous, oval, apex obtusely acurauiate, base subcorda.te, 

 margin entire, lateral nerves in 4 to 5 pairs, the lowest paii' basal, 

 glabrous, or Avitli a few stinging haus on the nerves when young, upper 

 face shining ; petioles slender, glabrous, |-2-i in. long. Stipules linear- 

 subulate, 2 lin. long, soon falling. Male flowers in reddish-green corym- 

 biform axillary cymes, l|-3 in. long, generally in the axil of the leaf- 

 scars on old branches ; peduncle ^— U- in. long, very finely puberulous, 

 pedicels and rhachis very fleshy, yelloAA- -green. Flowers in umbels 

 of 5 to 7 at the end of branches of the second and third order ; pedicels 

 very slender, f-1 lin. long ; bracts oval, less than l lin. long ; perianth - 

 vSegments 5, oval, subobtuse, h lin. long, puberulous on the outside. 

 Female flowers in corymbiform C3^mes, |-1^ in. broad ; peduncle glabrous, 

 5-7 lin. long ; branches of inflorescence glabrous, slender, passing into 

 persistent small branched brown-purple laeiniate outgroAAths beset with 



