356 XXXIX. OLACINE^. (oltveh). \_Apo(1ytes. 



Var. )8. (a distinct species?). Leaves oblong, acuminate. Pedicels very short, with the 

 calyx pubescent-toraentose or flowers subsessile. Ovary hirsute. — Eppah, Niger, Barter ! 

 River Kongui, Mann ! 



The obliquity of the style is less marked in var. )8, perhaps because of the hairy ovary. 



13. ALSODEIOPSIS, Oliv. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 996. 



Calyx 5-partite ; lobes lanceolate, acute. Petals 5, lanceolate, glabrous 

 within, connate \-\ of their length from the base, valvate in aestivation. 

 Stamens 5, free, alternate with the petals. Anthers elliptical or ovate-oblong, 

 minutely apiculate. Ovary free, 1-celled, hirsute, narro\ved into the style ; 

 stigma minute; ovules 2, pendulous. Fruit narrowly oblong, 1-celled, 1- 

 seeded ; pericarp thin, crustaceous, indehiscent. Seed exalbuminous, with a 

 membranous closely adherent testa. Cotyledons connate nearly throughout, 

 with an oblique lobe at the base connivent over the small ovoid superior 

 radicle. — A shrub with strigillose-hirsute extremities. Leaves membranous 

 or thinly coriaceous. Flowers very small, pedicellate, in short axillary cymes 

 or subracemose. 



Based upon the following species. The structure of the seed is very similar to that of 

 Sarcostigma. 



1. A. Mannii, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 43. Leaves oblanceolate 

 or oblanceolate-oblong, acuminate, narrowed to the usually obtuse, some- 

 times oblique base, entire, glabrous or thinly hispid-scaberulous above, the 

 prominent midrib and lateral veins more or less hispid beneath or glabrescent, 

 3-9 in. long, l5~2| in. broad ; petiole 1-2 lines, strigillose or hairy. In- 

 florescence usually under 1 in. Petals at length recurved above, three to 

 four times longer than the calyx. Fruit 1 in. long. — Hook. Ic. PI. 1008. 



Upper Guinea. Mount John, Kongui river, 3Iann ! 



Our specimens belong to two forms, but they do not appear to differ in any important 

 character, 



14. ICACINA, A. Juss. ; Benth. et Hook, l Gen. PI. i. 352. 



Calyx 5 -toothed or -partite. Petals 5, valvate, usually hirsute or pubes- 

 cent externally and bearded within (glabrous in /. macrocarpd) , Stamens 

 5, alternate with the petals, free, often inserted beneath a small hypogynous 

 disk. Anthers ovoid or oblong, dorsally affixed. Ovary 1-celled, usually 

 narrow^ed into the style and more or less pilose or hirsute ; stigma minute oi- 

 slightly peltate-dilated ; ovules 2 pendulous. Fruit indehiscent, 1-celled, 1- 

 seeded ; pericarp crustaceous or outer layer fleshy with a thin woody or bony 

 putamen. Seed pendulous ; embryo shorter than the fleshy uniform albu- 

 men, with thin foliaceous cotyledons and a short radicle. — Shrubs sometimes 

 scrambling or scandent. Leaves alternate, entire, penniveined. Flowers in 

 axillary or terminal panicles or glomerate in short simple or branched axil- 

 lary spikes or racemes. 



A small genus, confined to W. tropical Africa. 



Flowers pedicellate, in corymbose cymes collected in a terminal panicle. 



Petals barbate within 1. /. senegalensis. 



