Strombosia.] xxxix. olacine/K (oliver). 351 



shortly pedicellate from axillary sessile rusliioiis. Calyx-liml) shortly 5.1obe(l : 

 lobes ovate-deltoid. Petals elliptical, broadly pointed, pilose wiliiin above. 

 Ovary broad, surrounded by an inconspicuous disk ; base partially ininMrf«ed, 

 3-celled nearly to the top ; style subulate. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, T. Vug el ! Mann ! 



Specimens of wliat may be a second species of Stromhotia are in the Kew herb*rium 

 from the Sierra del Crystal {Mann /), but scarcely suflicient for dcMription. 



6. COULA, Baillon in Adansonia, iii. 64. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx reduced to a very short nearly entin- rinp. 

 Petals 5 (i-arely 4), free, thick, valvate. Stamens hypo;;ynou8, free, four 

 times as many as petals, unequal ; filaments erect, subulate. Ovary free, 

 3-4-celled below, 1 -celled above, narrowed into a subulate style ; ovules 

 solitary in each division of the ovary. Fruit drupaceous, l-celk*d, l-seeded. 

 Seed pendulous ; albumen fleshy ; embryo minute. — A tree. Leaves alter- 

 nate, pctiolate, coriaceous. Flowers in axillary or supra-axillttry, branched 

 racemes, about equal to the petioles. 



Based upon the following species, of which I have not seen a speciraeu. The descHptioQ 

 is taken from M. Baillon's account of it. 



1. C. edulis, Baill. I. c. t. 3. Leaves ovate, abruptly acuminnte, rounded 

 or cuneate at the base, 3-4 in. long, 2 in. broad ; petiole about \ in. long. 

 Racemes rusty-puberulous ; pedicels slightly thickened above. Fruit sub- 

 globose, 1-ly in. in diam. 



Cpper Guinea. Gaboon, Aubry LeComte ! 



7. RHAPTOPETALUM, Oliv. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 995. 



Calyx cupuliform, entire or lobulate, unchanged in fruit. Petals 3, peri- 

 gynous, coriaceous, glabrous, valvate in aestivation. Stamens indefinite (30- 

 40) ; filaments short, united' below in a tube adnate to the base of the petals ; 

 anthers erect,. narrow-linear, dehiscing by a short longitudinal slit near the 

 apex. Ovary slightly immersed or " half-inferior," 4-celled ; style filiform ; 

 stigma minute; ovules about 6 in each cell of tlie ovary, pendulous. Fruit 

 oblong or ellipsoidal, coriaceous, 1-celled, l-seeded. — A glabrous tree. 

 Leaves coriaceous, alternate, entire. Flowers in axillary, few-tlowered, very 

 short racemes or subumbellate fascicles. 



A monotypic genus, apparently confined to W. equatorial .Xfrica. Notwithslniuling th* 

 number of ovules in each cell of the ovary, which imlicates an aHinity with S/ynirarr,/' ns 

 jjointed out to me by M. Baillon, 1 leave this plant in (J/ariueiP,ns in most ofhrr rrs{>«ct«, 

 but especially in habit, it accords so well with the latter family. It forms, huwrver, an iu- 

 teresting connecting link between the two groups. 



1. R. coriaceuxn, Oliv. inJonrn. I.'nnt. Sor. viii. 159. /. 12. A gla- 

 brous tree, attaining 30 ft. Branches terete, willi slightly prominent rais^ed 

 lines, decurrent Irom the petioles. Leaves coriaceous, elliptiwil, sliorily and 

 obtusely produced at the apex, base rounded or cuneate, entire, midrib and 

 sometimes the lateral veins rather prominent beneath i 3 5 in. long, U-3} 



