118 cix. POLYGOXACE^ (baker AND wright). [Iiutnex. 



Upper Guinea. Camcrooiis : Cameroon Mountain, 7000 ft., Mann, 1235! 

 1990! 



lO'lle Itand. Eritrea: nenr Saj^anciti, Schweinfnrth Sf Riva, 836! 1815! 

 Abyssinia: near Geiniiii, in the region of Menisiich, Schimper, 3801 witlunit preoise 

 locality, ^e/i/»i;;ej-, 883 ! Uganda: Ruwen/ori, 7000-9800 ft., Scott- Ell iot.lQ^SSil 

 Dnire, ljri7 I Hritisli East Africa: Aberdare Mountains, James! between Kibwezi 

 and Machakos, Scott-Elliot, C092 ! 



Mozamb. Slst. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, J^oA/w^on, 130 ! Thom- 

 son! Vulkens, 676! Usagivra ; llobelio Mountains, Speke Sf Grant! British 

 Central Africa : N.vasaland ; Nyika Mountains, 4000-6000 ft., 7J^''Av^e / Shire High- 

 lands, Buchanan, 77 ! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 513 ! 552 ! 



Also in Tropical Asia. 



R. Steudelii has been separated from R. nepalensis by the absence of tubercles 

 on the back of the fruiting perianth-segments, but the tubercles may be absent and 

 present in the same i)anicle. 



A specimen of the European and North Asian R. crispus, Linn. {Sp. PI. ed. i. 

 335), has been collected by Sir Evan James on the Aberdare Mountains, where it has 

 probably been introduced. 



4. SYMMERIA, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL iii. 105. 



Flowers dioecious. Male : Perianth G-partite ; segments orbicular, 

 the 3 outer smaller. Stamens 20-30, inserted on a central disk ; 

 filaments very short, lludiment of ovary none. Female : Perianth 

 with 3 free ovate deciduous outer segments, the 3 inner coherent into a 

 fleshy mass and much enlarged after flowering, pyramidal, trigonous. 

 Ovary acutely trigonous ; style free at the apex ; stigmas 3, fimbriate. 

 Nut acutely trigonous, its faces plane or convex. Seed similar in shape 

 to the nut ; endosperm ruminate ; embryo nearly straight ; cotyledons 

 broad. 



Monotypic. 



1. S. paniculata, Bmth. in Ilooh. Loud. Jourii. Bot. iv. G3(>. A 

 shrub, glabrous in all its parts. Branchlets terete, woody. J.eaves 

 oblong, coriaceous, obtuse, cordate or cuneate at the base, (1-1) in. long ; 

 main veins arcuate, raised nearly to the edge ; petiole short, clasping 

 the branch at the base. Male flowers in an ample terminal panicle ; 

 branches many, long, spreading, slender; flowers small, in few-dowered 

 sessile clusters spaced out on the branches. Female flowers shortly 

 pedicelled. Female perianth coriaceous, trigonous, G-7 lin. long. — 

 Meisn. in Linnaja, xxi. 20(1, in DC. Prodr. xiv. IHG, and in Mart. Fl. 

 Bras. v. i. 46, t. 23 ; Scott-Elliot in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. U5. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Hemlelof, 33-4 ! Sierm Leone : near Kambia, 

 Scott-Elliot, 4467 : near Mandira, Limba Country and Kahrini (Karena), Scott- 

 Elliot, 5562 ! 5573 ! 



Also in Guiana and North Bi-azil. Called " mongmoi" by the Mcndis near 

 Kauibia. 



