Parinarium.] xlviii. rosacea (oliver). 371 



Stamens indefinite, unilateral, sub-biseriate, the short annulus con- 

 tinuous all Tound ; filaments much exceeding the calyx, 20 or more, 

 filiform crumpled. Ovary hirsute, 2-locellate. 

 Upper Guinea. Kiver Muni, Mann! 



3. GRIFFONIA, Hook. f. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 608. 



Calyx-tube cylindrical or narrowly infundibuliform, lobes 5 equal or 

 nearly so, inner surface and covered margins hoar)*-- or silky-tomentose. 

 Petals caducous, elliptical or oblong, veined. Stamens indefinite, uni- 

 lateral ; filaments united in a long narrow, strap, circinate in bud, free 

 at the apex ; anthers small, elliptical or roundish. Ovary inserted in 

 the mouth of calyx, hirsute, 1-locular, 2-ovulate; style basal, long, 

 slender. Fruit a nut or drupaceous, 1 -seeded; pericarp crustaceous 

 (in G. Barteri). — Small trees or climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate, 

 simple, entire, glabrous above. Stipules linear to ovate. Flowers in 

 simple or panicled axillary or terminal racemes, bracteate and brac- 

 teolate. 



Confined to West Tropical Africa. 



M. Baillon may be right in reducing this genus to Acioa, Aubl., as distinguished 

 from Couepia, Aubl. (Adansonia, vii. 222), but I have not the necessary material for 

 comparison, and the fruit of Acioa, as figured by Aublet, does not agree with that of 

 G. Barteri, the only Griffonia of which I have seen a fruit. I adopt Griffonia, 

 Hook, f, as I find M. Baillon mistaken in his note upon the priority of his genus of the 

 same name (Adansonia, 1. c). 



Flowers in simple racemes. 



Bracteoles palmatifid. ♦ 



Leaves 8 in. by 4-5, auricled at base 1. G. Icondere. 



Leaves 4-6 in. by 14-34, entire at base 2. G. Bellayana. 



Bracteoles lanceolate or ovate, entire 3. G. pallescens. 



Flowers in compound or panicled racemes. 



Leaves 5-7 in., lateral nerves 6-10. Stipules ovate . . . . 4. G. Mannii. 

 Leaves 2 §-5 in., lateral nerves 4-6. Stipules narrow-linear . . 5. G. Barteri. 



1. G. Icondere. Climbing shrub ; extremities thick as a goose- 

 quill, clothed with dense tomentum. Leaves subsessile, elliptic-ovate, 

 obtuse or apiculate, base equally or unequally auricled, thickly coria- 

 ceous, glabrous above', shortly tomentose and paler beneath, reticulation 

 rather prominent beneath, 8 in. long, 4-5 in. broad. Stipules oblong- 

 lanceolate attenuate, J-J in. Flowers in simple nut-ant racemes from 

 the upper axils, 4 in. long. Bracts ovate acuminate, ^ in. Pedicels 

 slender, glabrous, J-f in. Calyx-tube exceeding the pedicel, tubular- 

 infundibuliform, obliquely dilated a little above the narrowed base. — 

 Acioa (Loraiidra) Icondere, Baill. in Adansonia, vii. 233 (note). 



Upper Guinea. Gaboon river, Griffon du Bellay. 

 Description from M. Baillon. I do not know the plant. 



2. G. Bellayana. Tree of 15-25 ft. (Dr. Welrvitsch) ; extremities 

 terete, nearly the thickness of a goose-quill, densely rusty tomentose- 

 pubescent. Leaves broadly elliptic-oblong varying to obovate-oblong, 

 obtuse or apiculate, base rounded, entire, coriaceous or membranous, 



