498 lx. SAMYDACE2E (masters). [Homalium. 



2-3 in. wide. Stipules linear, caducous. Flowers minute, 1J-2 lines 

 in diameter, shortly pedicellate, arranged in clusters along- the sides of 

 a puberulous terminal panicle whose branches equal or exceed the leaves 

 in length. Flower-tube puberulous, turbinate, limb divided into five 

 triangular, acute, valvate segments. Petals 5, spathulate, apiculate, 

 slightly downy, two or three times longer than the sepals. Glands 

 small, wide, downy. Stamens 5, rather shorter than the petals ; fila- 

 ments glabrous ; anthers minute, subglobose. Ovary rather downy ; 

 style rather conical, much shorter than the petals. Fruit . . . — Black- 

 wellia qfricana, Hook. f. Fl. Nigrit. 361. 



Upper Guinea. Lagos, Niger, Barter! Fernando Po, Mann! Sierra Leone, 

 Bon! Afzelius! Smeathmann! Senegal, Eeudelot! 



3. H. stipulaceum, Welw. in Hero. A small tree with terete branches 

 covered, when young, with rusty down. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, 

 smooth above, downy beneath, oblong-lanceolate, subcordate or rounded 

 at the base, acuminate, serrate, 4-5 in. long, 2 in. wide. Petiole downy, 

 \-% in. long. Stipules foliaceous, falcate, as long as the leaf-stalks. 

 Flowers 2-3 lines in diameter, placed on very short downy pedicels, 

 arranged in terminal much-branched panicles, whose branches are as 

 long as or longer than the leaves. Flower-tube urceolate, very short, 

 downy, divided into 4-5 rather thick triangular lobes. Petals 5, 

 coriaceous, oblong, obtuse, twice the length of the sepals. Glands 5, 

 downy, flat, subtriangular, alternate with the petals, emerging with 

 them from the mouth of .the' tube of the flower. Stamens 5, shorter 

 than the petals ; filaments slender, curved inwards in the bud. Ovary 

 partially adherent; style short, conical, dividing into 4-5 branches 

 opposite to the petals. 



Upper Guinea. Bagroo river, Mann ! Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 

 Lower Guinea. ADgola, Dr. Welwitsck! 



4. H. angustifolium, Smith sx DC. Prod. ii. 54. A shrub or small 

 tree; younger branches puberulous. Leaves membranous, glabrous, 

 except along the midrib on the under surface, lanceolate or oblong, 

 acuminate, tapering at the base into a very short petiole, entire or 

 undulate, and minutely serrate, 2-3 in. long, 1 in. wide. Flowers 

 numerous, in dense spikes which scarcely exceed the leaves in length. 

 Flower-tube turbinate. Sepals leathery, obiong, half the length of the 

 broadly oblong petals. Stamens in parcels of 3 or more before each 

 petal; filaments slender; anthers minute, didymbus. Glands of disk 

 distinctly cushion-shaped, one before each sepal. Ovary half-inferior, 

 free portion villose; style half the length of the petals ; stigmas ?.. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Smeathmann! 

 Called by the natives " Maqueequee," according to Afzelius. 



6. BYBSANTHUS, Guill. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 800. 



Flower-tube obconical, more or less adnate to the ovary ; lobes of 

 calyx 5—6, reflexed. Petals 5-6, leathery, similar to the calyx-lobes, 



