Aneulophus."] xxviii. line>e (oliver). 275 



scarcely rounded at the base, paler beneath, 3^-7 in. \or\», \{-1\ in. broad ; 

 petiole i in. Plowers several together from the axils or the tliickcned inter- 

 petiolar ridge, on slender pedicels of \-\ in. Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate. 

 Petals several times longer than the sepals, patent or recurved. 



Upper Guinea. Gaboon river, Matin I 



Order XXIX. HUMIRIACEiE (by Prof. Oliver). 



Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, deci- 

 duous, slightly conton-imbricate or subvalvate. Stamens 10-20 or indefi- 

 nite, hypogynous, usually more or less connate below ; filaments filiform or 

 narrow linear, compressed ; anthers versatile with 2 cells at the base of a pro- 

 duced conical fleshy connective. Ovary free, sessile, usually 5-cellcd, Style 

 simple; stigma terminal entire or denticulate; ovules s'olitarj' (or 2-3), 

 pendulous. Fruit drupaceous with a woody or bony indehiscent putamen or 

 pericarp, thick, woody, abounding in resin-cysts. Seeds albuminous (not 

 examined in the African species). — Usually glabrous resiniferous trees. 

 Leaves alternate, simple, coriaceous, exstipulate. Flowers in axillarj' or 

 terminal corymbose or subpaniculate cymes. 



A small Order confined to Brazil and Guiana, with the following exception. 



1. AUBRYA, Baillon; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 9S8. 



Petals very slightly imbricate or subvalvate. Stamens 10 ; filaments com- 

 pressed, slightly connate below or free (Baillon). Ovary 5-celled. Style 

 simple ; ovules solitary. Fruit globose or ellipsoidal with a thick woody 

 pericarp abounding in resin-cysts, indehiscent (?). Seeds not seen. — A large 

 tree. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous. Flowers in axillary and apparently ter- 

 minal pedunculate cymes. 



Although there are two or three discrepancies between the account of J. gabonmtis as 

 published by M. Baillon and the result of my examination of a good series of spocimena, 

 including some from the Gaboon, yet I can hardly doubt that we have the same spcciea in 

 view. Aubrya is peculiar to W. tropical Africa. 



1. A. gabonensis, Baill. in Jdansoinn, ii. 266. Leaves very coria- 

 ceous, oblong-elliptical, rather acute or with a short subacute acumen, 

 rounded at the base and at length narrowed into the petiole, obscurely crc- 

 nate-sernilate above, glabrous, venation but glightly prominent, either dark 

 red-brown or pale green when dry, 3-6 in. long, 1^-2^ in. broad; petiole 

 \-\ in. Flowers in stout axillary cymes forked from about the middle, 

 shorter than the leaves, towards the ends of the branches or sometimes 

 clustered in the uppermost leaves forming a small terminal panielt, minutely 

 puberulous or glabrate. Pedicels stout, jointed at the base, about cquallinj; 

 the suborbicular ciliolate sepals. Petals rather thick, four to six times ex- 

 ceeding the sepals. Stamens at length often separating. Ovary glabrous. 

 Fruit 1 in. or little more in diara. 



