314 xxxiv. siMAKUBEJE (oliver). \_lrv'ut(jia. 



annular scars. Flowers yellowish, pedicellate, in terminal or axillary pani- 

 culate or fascicled racemes, ebracteate. 



Confined to W. tropical Africa. 



Leaves broadly elliptical, cuneate or rounded at the base. Racemes axil- 

 lary, divaricate, fasciculate or panicled, shorter than the leaves; pedi- 

 cels usually fascicled, 2-5 together 1. /. Barteri. 



Leaves very coriaceous, ovate-elliptical, broadly rounded at the base, with a 

 narrow cordate sinus at the petiole. Flowers numerous, in panicled ra- 

 cemes, terminal or axillary ; pedicels singly inserted 2. /. Smithii. 



1. I. Barteri, HooJc.f. in Linn. Trans. 23. 167. A. tree of 30-50 ft., 

 glabrous in all its parts ; ramuli usually sulcate when dry. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, shining above, elliptical or oblong-elliptical, shortly acuminate or api- 

 culate, more or less acute, base cuneate or rounded in the broader-leaved 

 forms, 3-4-i- in. long, l^-2\ in. broad; petiole ^-| iil. Flowers in axillary 

 panicles or loose subfasciculate, divaricate, few- or several-flowered racemes, 

 usually much shorter than the leaves ; pedicels 1-3 lines, often 2-5 together. 

 Calyx 5- occasionally 3-4-partite, with rotundate lobes. Petals broadly 

 elliptical. Style filiform. Fruit " edible," about 2\ in. diam., with a fleshy 

 epicarp and bony endocarp. — Mangifera gahonensis, A. Le Comte in Journ. 

 Pharm. et Chim. xxxi. 275. 



Upper Guinea. Prince's Island, Barter ! Mami ! Rivers Muni and Camaroons, 

 Mann ! 



Var. tenuifoUa. Leaves thinly coriaceous or submembrauous, broadly elliptical or ob- 

 ovate-elliptical, obtuse or shortly and broadly apiculate. — I. tenuifoUa, Hook. f. 1. c, 



Abbeokuta, Irving ! 



Barter calls this the " "Wild Mango " of the " Sierra Leone' people." I have not seen 

 specimens from Sierra Leone. In the var. tenuifoUa the style in uninjured flowers is slender 

 and elongate as in the type. 



2. I. Smithii, Hook.f. I. c. A perfectly glabrous tree of 40 ft. {Barter), 

 ultimate branchlets usually slightly fun-owed when diy. Leaves very coria- 

 ceous, ovate-elliptical, acute or broadly pointed, broadly rounded at the base 

 and usually more or less narrowly cordate at the insertion of the petiole, 2-^-4 

 in. long, If- 2|- in. broad; petiole \ in. Flowers numerous, pale yellow, 

 fragrant, " in spreading axillary and terminal subpaniculate, narrow racemes, 

 equalling or exceeding the leaves." Pedicels singly inserted along the rachis, 

 patent, equalling the flowers. Style about equal to the ovary at flowering. 

 Fruit oblong (in our dried specimens), nearly 1| in. long, with a thick woody 

 pericarp. Seed, according to M. Baillon (Adans. vii. 381), albuminous. 



Upper Guinea. Niger, Barter ! 

 liOTver Guinea. Congo, Smith ! 

 Mr. Barter says the fruit is much sought after by monkeys. 



9. BALANITES, Delile; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 314. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, with imbricate margins, deciduous. 

 Petals as many. Stamens 1 ; filaments unappendaged ; anthers dorsally 

 affixed. Ovary globose, pilose, 5 -celled, inserted upon a thick fleshy disk ; 



