102 cxiv. MYRiSTicACE/E (stapf). [Scyphocephalium. 



anthers \ lin. long. Fruit (quite young) subglobose, IJ in. in diam., 

 densely fulvo-tomentose. — Warb. in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. Ixviii. 

 249. Myristica Mannii, Benth. in Hook. Ic. PI. xiii. 49, t. 12G2. 



Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: OUl Calabar, J/^«/i, 2290 ! Caineroons: 

 Caiueroou Hiver, Mann, 752 ! near Victoria, Winkler, 360 I Duala, near Xdokoti, 

 Winkler, 7-Al ! and without precise locality, Braun, 3 ! 



3. S. chrysothrix, Warh.in Notizhl. Konigl. Bot.Gart. Berlin, i. 98. 

 A tree ; young branches ferruginous-tomentellous, at length glabrous^ 

 greyish and with scattered prominent lenticels. Leaves oblong-obovate^ 

 narrow and acute at the base, abruptly and obliquely cuspidate, 5-7 in. 

 long, \\-2\ in. broad, soon glabrous on both sides ; midrib very 

 prominent; lateral nerves spreading, parallel, about 10 on each side; 

 veins obscure ; petiole 3-6 lin. long, rather slender. Inflorescences 

 unknown. Fruiting peduncle stout, short, bearing at the apex one or 

 few fruits on pedicels about 1 in. long and 4 lin. thick. Fruit depi-essed- 

 globose, almost 4 in. in diam., about 3 in. high, covered with a dense 

 woolly yellowish-red tomentum which rubs off easily ; sutural ridges 

 faint; pericarp almost 1 in. thick when fresh; aril red. Seed IJ in» 

 in diam., not quite 1 in. high ; testa 5-7 lin. thick. 



Upper Guinea. Canieroons : in forests, Braun, 1G2. 



3. CCELOCARYON, Warb. in Xotizbl. Konigl. Bot. Gart. 

 Berlin, i. 99. 



Male flower : Perianth cupuliform, 3- (rarely 4-) partite. Filaments 

 united into a column ; anthers 3-5, adnate to the upper half of the 

 column. Female flower : Perianth as in the male, slightly larger. 

 Ovary ovoid-globose, glabrous; stigma sessile, 2-lobed. Fruit medium- 

 sized, oblong ; pericarp dehiscent, fleshy, usually thick ; aril covering 

 the seed, deeply laciniate and fenestrate. Seed oblong ; testa crus- 

 taceous ; endosperm more or less deeply ruminate, with a (some- 

 times narrow) cavity in the centre, full of fat, destitute of starch ; 

 rumination-folds radial. Cotyledons free, suberect. — Leaves chartaceous 

 or coriaceous ; lateral nerves oblique, curved towards the margins, 

 faintly looping. Flowers in dense small loosely panicled umbels, when 

 quite young suiTounded by an involucre of caducous bracts, the bases 

 of which are joined into a disk and pei-sist. 



Species 3, endemic. 

 Fruits obtuse. 



Leaves oblong to lanceolate-oblong . . . . 1. C Klainei. 



Leaves obovate-oblong and more or less pdnduiiforni . 2, C. Preussii. 

 Fruits acute . . . . . . . . 3. C. oxycarpum. 



1. C. Klaineiy Piert-e ajmd lleckel in Rev. Cult. Colon, xii. (1903), 

 130. A tree 30-50 ft. high ; branchlets slightly pubescent when quite 

 yo.ung, soon glabrous. Leaves oblong to lanceolate-oblong, more or less 

 acute or subobtuse at the base, more or less acuminate, 5-12 in, long, 

 2 4 in. broad, coriaceous, adpressedly rufo-pubescent in bud, very 



