160 cxiv. MYRiSTicACEiE (stapf). [^Pycnanthus. 



deciduous; heads globose or ovoid, densely congested, l-lj lin. long. 

 Androecium shortly exserted ; anthers 3-4. Female plant unknown. 



Upper Gnlnea. Liberia: Fislitown, near Grand Bassa, Dinklage, 1624 ! 

 Thefacies of the leaves and branches of this plant are so different from the other 

 species oi Pycnanthus that I suspect it does not belong to that genus. 



4. P. Schweinfarthii, Warh. in Ber. Pharm. Gesellsck. Berlin^ 

 (1892), 223 {name), and in Engl Ffl. Ost-Afr. B. 271, C. 180. A tall 

 tree. Leaves and inflorescences unknown. Fruits clustered, sessile, 

 ellipsoid, 1-lJ in. long, 1-1} in. in diam. ; pericarp 2J-3 lin. thick, 

 almost glabrous ; aril laciniate down to the middle or to 4. Seed 

 obovoid-ellipsoid, up to 1 in. long, 6-8 lin. in diam.; testa shining, 

 grooved, reddish-brown ; endosperm sparingly ruminate ; starch very 

 scanty; cotyledons suberect with undulate margins. — Warb. in Nov. 

 Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. Ixviii. 2G0, t. 10, figs. 1-3. 



Sontli Central. Congo Free State : by the Assika stream, in Niamniam 

 Country, Schweinfurth ! 



Similar seeds covered with their arils were sent by the late Mr. Mahon from 

 Uganda, but they are smaller, mostly 9-10 lin. by 6 liii., and even the largest always 

 less than 1 in. in length. The tree from which these seeds were collected is of fine 

 appearance, but the timber is not much valued. 



5. P. Mechowii, Warh. in Xov. Act. Acad. Xal. Cur. Ixviii. 2C1, 

 i. x.Jigs. 1-2. Seed ovoid, brown, faintly grooved, 11 lin. long, GJ lin. 

 in diam. ; testa black, J lin. thick ; rumination-folds rather thick. 



Iiower Guinea. Congo Free State (or Angola ?) : without precise locality, 

 Mechoto. 



2. SCYPHOCEPHALIUM, Warb. in Ber. Deutsch. 

 Bot. Ges. xiii. Generalvers.-Heft, 84. 



Male flower : Perianth funnel-shaped, 3-5-partite. Filaments 

 united into a column ; anthers 6-10, adnate to the column and as long as 

 the stipes or sHghtly shorter. Female flower : Perianth as in the male, 

 but with minute triangular bracteoles at the base. Ovary tomentose ; 

 stigma 2-lobed. Fruit very large, depressed ; pericarp very thick, 

 fleshy, indehiscent ; aril completely covering the seed, entire. Seed 

 depressed ; testa woody, not very thick ; endosperm ruminate, replete 

 with fat, but destitute of starch ; rumination-folds intruding from 

 the chalaza downwards. Cotyledons divaricate. — Leaves chartaceous, 

 with spicular cells, which in the dry state appear as slight prominences, 

 particularly below ; lateral nerves joined by distinct arches close to the 

 margin. Flowers pedicelled, in pseudo-capitate umbels, sometimes 

 several of them crowded into larger heads ; heads in short sparingly 

 branched panicles or, by the reduction of the lateral branches, solitary. 

 Bracts and, in the female, bracteoles present. 



Species 3, endemic. 



