Adinandra.l xxiii. TERNSTRCEMiACEiE (oliyer). 171 



A remarkably fine species, which would be well worth introducine into English green- 

 houses. It is peculiarly interesting, owing to its aflinity with an Indian type and isolated 

 insular locality. 



2. OMPHALOCARPUM, P. de Beauv. ; Bentli. et Hook. f. Gen. 



PL i. 185. 



Flowers unisexual (or polygamous?). Sepals 5, poriaceous, rather un- 

 equal, much imbricate. Petals 5, exceeding the sepals, connate at the base 

 or connected by the stamens or staminodia, much imbricate. Male fl. : 

 Stamens included, about 25, usually 5 or thereabouts opposite and adnatc 

 to the base of each petal ; filaments free half their length or more ; anthers 

 basifixed, linear-lanceolate, shortly apiculate, shortly 2-lobate at the base, ex- 

 trorse ; squamae 5, rotundate-cuneate, laciniate, incurved, alternate with and 

 adnate to the petals. Rudiment of ovary depressed-globose, abruptly nar- 

 rowed into the long slender style, occasionally with one or more cells, con- 

 taining solitary ovules. Female fl. : Staminodia linear-subulate, some dilated 

 or petaloid. Ovary conical, narrowed into the style, with very numerous 

 radiating cells ; stigma terminal, minutely multidenticulate ; ovules solitary 

 in each cell. Fruit large, depressed-globose, with a thick pericarp ; the 

 inner layer of which consists of crowded, hard, woody nodules; multilocular. 

 Seeds laterally affixed (immature, much flattened), " shining, ovate, com- 

 pressed, with a fleshy albumen. Cotyledons large, ovate, flat ; radicle short, 

 inferior." — A large glabrous tree. Leaves thinly coriaceous, alteniate, rather 

 crowded towards the extremities, entire, exstipulate. Flowers fascicled or 

 solitary, subsessile or shortly pedunculate, springing from the trunk, " 8-12 

 ft. " above the ground, yellow (Manti), rose (Beauvois), white (Thomson). 



A monotypic genus, peculiar to W. tropical Africa. From the limited number of 

 flowers at my disposal, I cannot satisfactorily settle their polygamous character. 



1. O. procera, Beauv. Fl. d'Oware, i. 7. t. 5, 6. A tree of 60-80 ft. 

 {Manji), Leaves rather crowded at the ends of the branches, oblanceolate or 

 oblanceolate-oval, contracted to the obtuse or scarcely acute apex, gradually 

 narrowed below to the short petiole or subsessile, 4-10 in. long, ly-3^ in. 

 broad above the middle. Petals oval-oblong, about \ in. long, connate 

 below. Fruit large, depressed-globose, in our specimens 4-6 in. diara., ac- 

 cording to Beauvois 12 in. ; pericarp of closely-packed woody nodules, about 

 |— f in. thick. 1 have not seen mature seeds. 



Upper Guinea. Oware, Beauvois ; Camaroons and Bagroo rivers, Afann I Old Cala- 

 bar, Thomson! 



3. CARAIPA, Aubl. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 188. 



Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, contorted. Stamens indefinite, connective 

 usually shortly and broadly produced (in S. American species with a glandu- 

 lar excavation). Ovary 3-celled ; style simple; stigma minutely 3-toothed ; 

 ovules 2 (or 3) in each cell, pendulous. Capsule (not seen in African species), 

 triangular, dehiscing septicidally. " Seeds exalbunainous ; embrjo with large 

 flat cotyledons and a superior radicle." — Trees. Leaves alternate, parallel- 



