370 xlviii. rosacea (oliver). [P< 



armarium. 



8. P. polyandrum, Benth. in Fl. Nigrit. 333. Shrub or small tree 

 attaining 12-20 ft. ; extremities thinly pilose-pubescent or glabrate. 

 Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong obtuse entire or very shortly apicu- 

 late, rounded or broadly cuneate at base, glabrous shining smooth or 

 obsoletely scabrid above, glabrous or with few scattered hairs beneath, 

 lateral nervures scarcely prominent, 5-8 on each side ; 3|-4^ in. long, 

 1 j-2 in. broad ; petiole with a pair of sessile glands at base of lamina, 

 i in. Flowers white, in dense many-flowered eymosely-bianched 

 more or less hoary-tomentose terminal panicles 3-6 in. broad. Ulti- 

 mate bracteoles caducous, ovate-rotundate, \-\ in. long. Calyx-tube 

 pyriform, nearly solid, about J in. to first bracteoles ; segments ovate- 

 rotundate, obtuse, coriaceous. Petals broadly rounded above, little ex- 

 ceeding the calyx. Stamens indefinite (35-40) unilateral, very shortly 

 connate at base; filaments 2-3 times as long as calyx, but much 

 twisted and little exserted. Carpels frequently 2 or more ; ovary hir- 

 sute, bilocelkte. Fruit ellipsoidal, " resembling a young peach," with 

 a thick woody putamen and thin sarcocarp. In our specimens f-1 in. 

 long, thinly tomentose. 



Upper Guinea. Attah On the Quorra, T. Vogel! Nupe, Barter! 

 Mr. Barter says the fruit is hardly edible, and that the wood is well-suited for the 

 charcoal used by native smiths. 



9. P. robustum, Oliv. Tree of 40 ft. ; extremities stout, terete, 

 with small scattered lenticels, glabrate. Leaves coriaceous, oblanceo- 

 late- or elliptic- oblong, with an obtuse acumen of J-J in., base cu- 

 neate, glabrous above, paler beneath, with a minute cinnamon-coloured 

 puberulous tomentum upon which the prominent midrib is relieved in 

 darker colour, lateral nervures distant, 5-7 on each side ; 4-5 in. long, 

 li-lf in. broad. Petiole with a pair of sessile glands at the base of 

 the lamina, \ in. long more or less. Flowers " yellow " in broad ter- 

 minal cymosely branched pilose-pubescent panicles, 4-6 in. broad. 

 Bracteoles caducous. Calyx-tube and pedicel about J in. to first brac- 

 teoles ; tube solid, segments broadly ovate-rotundate. Stamens inde- 

 finite, the annulus at base incomplete. Carpels 1 or 3. Ovary densely 

 hirsute, 2-locellate. 



Upper Guinea. Banks of Nun river, Mann ! 



Allied to P. Oriffithianum, Benth. A species of the Malayan region and North 

 Australia. 



10. P. glabrum, Oliv. Tree of 30 ft., wholly glabrous or inner 

 sepals only thinly pulverulent-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous elliptical 

 or oblong-elliptical, narrowed to each end, with a narrow obtuse acu- 

 men, base cuneate with a pair of minute or obsolete glands at the inser- 

 tion of the petiole, midrib prominent beneath, lateral nervures and 

 reticulation scarcely prominent; 3-4 in. long, 1-lf in. broad; petiole 

 J-J in. ; glands at base of lamina obscure or 0. Flowers very nume- 

 rous in terminal much cymosely -branched panicles. ^Bracts caducous. 

 Calyx-tube solid, clavate, gradually narrowed below, about \ in. with 

 ths pedicel to the first articulation. Calyx-lobes rotundate, coriaceous. 



