Jleptapleurum.] LXix. ARALiACE^ (hiern). ,31 



in fruit raised on a short column of about their own leng"th ; stigmas 

 subcapitate ; fruit subglobose, acutely 5- or 6-ribbed, | in. long. 

 Upper Guinea. Camaroons mountains, Mann! fr. February, 4500 ft. alt. 



6. H. Manniiy Be7ith. et Hook.f. Gen. Plant, i. 942. A quite glabrous 

 tree, 40-50 ft. high. Branches |—f in. thick close to the extremities. 

 Leaves 3-10-foliate ; petioles 6-11 in. long, terete, faintly sulcate ; 

 leaflets oval-oblong, acuminate at apex, somewhat cuneate or scarcely 

 rounded at base, thinly coriaceous, 4-8 in. long, shining above, entire, 

 on stalks 1-2J in. long. Inflorescence 7-17 in. long, terminal; pri- 

 mary pedicels J- j in. long ; secondary obsolete ; bracteoles ovate acu- 

 minate. Capitula of about 20 flowers, J in. in diameter. Calyx and 

 corolla green. Stigmas papilliform, scarcely raised above the wide 

 convex disk. Fruit subglobose, 1-lOth in. long, 5- or 6-ribbed. — 

 Paratropia Manniiy Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 10. Astropa/uix- 

 Ma?mi, Seem, in Journ. Bot. 1865, 178. Sciodaphyllum Manni, Seem, in 

 Rev. Heder. 51. 

 Upper Guinea. Fernando Po and Camaroons mountains, 4500-7500 ft. alt, JIaan ! 



3. CUSSONIA, Thunb. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 944. 



Calyx with sinuous or obscurely 5-dentate margin ) petals 5, valvate ; 

 stamens 5 ; anthers ovate. Epigynous disk flattish or shortly conical ; 

 ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, short. Fruit 2-celled, fleshy or dry ; albumen 

 ruminated. — Glabrous subglabrous or softly terete trees with palmatifid 

 or digitate leaves, with crenate or entire leaflets crowded near the ends 

 of the branches. Stipules lanceolate, partly connate within the petiole. 

 Flowers spicate or racemose, hermaphrodite, bracteate, sessile or con- 

 tinuous with the pedicels. — Sphcerodendron, Seem. ; Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. Plant, i. 1009. 



Genus of about 12 species, limited to Tropical and Southern Africa and the neigh- 

 bouring islands. 



Flowers spicate, sessile. 



Leaves palmatipartite , . . 1. C. arborea. 



Leaves digitate. ^ 



Leaflets and spikes sessile or subsessile. 



Leaflets crenate ly serrulate ; petioles 5^-7 1 in. long ... 2. C. Kirkii. 



Leaflets entire ; petioles 15 in. long . . 3. C. Barteri. 



Leaflets lobed and clavate spikes, both stalked 4. C. spUata. 



Flowers pedicelled b. C. angolenais. 



1. C. arborea, Hochst. in A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 336, t. 56. A softly 

 tomentose tree, with branches thick at the extremities, marked with 

 the scars of the fallen leaves. Petioles subsulcate, terete, 6-18 in. 

 long; leaves palmate, with 5-7 lobes divided to |-1 in. from petiole, 

 J-| ft. long ; lobes oval, narrowed towards base, acutely acuminate at 

 apex, dark green above, paler beneath, serrulate. Inflorescence about 

 a foot long, consisting of spikes crowded at ends of branches ; brac- 

 teoles lanceolate, shorter tlian the fruit. Flowers sessile, crowdetl, 

 spirally arranged on the spikes, polygamous. Rachis ^-\ in. thick. 



