ADDENDA. 359 



stiff stinging hairs ; flowers siib.sessile ; calyx absent ; ovary ^ lin. long, 

 glabrous, bearing a finely papillose stignia. Ripe fruit yellow-ornnge, 

 fleshy, subtriquetrous-ovoid, 1-1| lin. in diani. ; seed I lin. long. 



Upper Guinea. Ivory Coast : High Sassandra ; Dyola country, Zoanle, 

 at 2U(X) ft., ('lievalier, 214/)(>, botwern Niangourplou and Man, ('hernlier, 2\ruH). 



I have little doubt that this is synonymous with U. Thonveri, Do Wild. & 

 Durand. 



4cr. Urera robusta, A. Chev. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Ixi. M4m. 8e, 301. 

 A robust woody liane, climbing on trees up to 45 to 60 ft., sometimes an 

 epiphyte, clothed throughout with stinging hairs ; younger stems 

 pubescent. Leaves membranous, obovate or obovate-elliptic, abruptly 

 acuminate, very acute, base wedge-shaped, margin denticulate-runcinate, 

 4-5^ in. long, 2^3 in. wide, 3-nervefl at the base, with 3 to 4 pairs of 

 lateral nerves above, ^\'hich are united by parallel veins, pubes(;ent on 

 both faces ; petiole terete, 4— 1| in. long. Stipules oval-lanceolate, 5 lin. 

 long, passing into a long bristle-like point and with two lateral nerves. 

 Female tiowers in dense lateral cymes, li-2i in. wide; peduncle ascending, 

 £—1 in. long, pubescent ; branches of inflorescence markedly dichotomou§, 

 bearing in addition to the flowers small laciniate purple terminal out- 

 growths bristling with stinging hairs ; floA\er-pedicels very slender, |-^ 

 lin. long. Perianth -segments 5, linear-oblong, glabrous, \ lin. long, some 

 becoming red, others orange-yellow during ripening of the fruit. Ripe 

 fruit yellow, discoid, 1 lin. in diam., enveloped in the perianth. 



Upper Guinea. Ivory Coast : High Sassandra ; Dyola coimtry. Chevalier, 

 215H1); Toura country; (Jouroni, at 3000 ft.. Chevalier^ 21 (141. 



The leaves arc sometimes reddish bcneatli. 



2. Myrica arborea, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1917. Add: 234 and 

 delete ined. 



3. Salix Hutchinsii, Skan. Add: in Kew Bulletin, 1917, 235. 



5. Salix nigerica, Skan. Add: in Kew Bulletin, 1917, 236. 



6. Salix Murielii, SkaiK Add: in Kew Bulletin, 1917, 235. 



7. Salix Schwelnfurthii, Skan. Add: iv Kew Bnlhtiu, 1917, 237. 



