i 



450 XLV. ANACARDiACE^ (oliver). \_Sclerocarya. 



The seed is edible, and from the pulp a fermented liquor is prepared. — Spon- 

 dias Birrea, Kich. in Tl. Seneg. i. 152. t. 41. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ! 



Nile Iiand. Abyssinia, Schimper ! and others; Madi, Speke and Grant! Seunar, 

 Cienkowski. 



10. HITZERIA, Klotzsch ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 427. 



riowers moncEcious. Calyx 4(-5)-lobed; segments oval, valvate, and 

 exceeding the petals in bud. Petals 4 (-5), inserted on the calyx, slightly 

 imbricate. Stamens (of male flowers) 8, alternately shorter, inserted on 

 the calyx ; anthers oval-oblong, mucronate, versatile. Ovary 0. Pemale 

 flowers (not seen by me) 5-merous. Stamens 10, iiidimentary. Ovary 3- 

 celled. Style short ; stigma peltate, 3-lobulate. Drupe tomentose, 1-celled, 

 1-seeded. Seed ascending with a minute inferior radicle and thick, fleshy, 

 plano-convex cotyledons. — Tree. Leaves clustered at the extremities, un- 

 equally pinnate, 5-7-foliolate, scabrid-pubescent. Plowers small, in spicate 

 racemes, buds oblong. Drupes eatable. 



Based upon the following species. 



1. H. edulis, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 89. Leaflets oval- or 

 ovate-oblong, acute or obtuse, rounded at the base, the lateral opposite, sub- 

 sessile, shortly hispid or scabrid-pubescent at least when young, not exceed- 

 ing 2| in. in our specimens. 



Mozaxnb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Peters ! (? Tette, Zambesi, Kirk, $ but leafless 

 and fragmentary.) 



11. LANNEOMA, Delile ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 428. 



Plowers monoecious. Calyx 4-partite, tomentose. Petals as many, im- 

 bricate. Stamens 8 ; filaments confluent into a minute annular disk at base. 

 Ovary in male flower rudimentary, in female ovoid, 2-celled ; stigmas sessile, 

 remote; ovules pendulous. Drupe obovoid with a 2-ceIled putamen. — A 

 small scabrid- tomentose or pubescent tree. Leaves 3-foliolate, tufted at the 

 nodes. Flowers glomerulate. 



Based upon the following and only species. 



1. L. velutina, Delile in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. ii. 20. 91. ^. 1./. 2. Leaf- 

 lets obovate, median larger, obtuse, entire, scabrid-pubescent, with scattered 

 stellate hairs or the surface minutely tubercled above, stellate-tomentose -be- 

 neath. 



Nile Xjand, Abyssinia, Galinier^ Schimper ! 



I have not had the opportunity of examining flowers or fruit. 



