Ccdocari/on.] cxiv. MYRiSTiCACEiE (staff). 163 



soon quite glabrous ; midrib prominent below, channelled above ; 

 lateral nerves 8-13 on each side; petiole J-1 in. long, subflexuous, 

 stout, channelled. Male panicles axillary or extra-axillary near the 

 ends of the branches, 2-3J in. long and wide, very lax, sparingly 

 pubescent or almost glabrous ; peduncle J-1 in. long ; primary branches 

 slender, spreading ; ultimate divisions up to more than J in. long ; involu- 

 cral disk 1-2 lin. in diam., bearing about 15-20 chrome-yellow flowers; 

 pedicels clavate, very short. Perianth 3-partite, about 1 lin. long, 

 sparsely and finely reddish-pubescent, particularly along the margins 

 of the broad-ovate lobes. Androecium J lin. long ; stipes slender ; 

 anthers 3, rarely 4, distinct, J lin. long. Female panicle similar to 

 the male, but less divided ; branches shorter and stouter, at length 

 divaricate ; umbels usually recurved when young ; involucral disk 

 reduced to a rim ; pedicels stout, 1-1 J lin, long in flower, up to 10 lin. 

 in fruit, ferruginous- pubescent. Perianth as in the male, but per- 

 sistent and slightly enlarged in the fruit. Fruit obovoid-oblong, 1-1 J 

 in. long, I in. in diam. ; pericarp glabrous. Seed 12 lin. long, 7 lin. in 

 diam. ; testa reddish brown, shining ; endosperm deeply ruminate. — 

 C. cuneatum, Warb. apud Heckel in Rev. Cult. Colon, xii. (1903), 132, 

 figs. 1-6 ; in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 385. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Kipinde, Zenker, 2109 I 2492 ! 2665 ! 2735 ! 

 3281 ! 3637 I and without precise locality, Rudatis, 14 ! 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Kondui, on the Sankuru River, in sandy 

 soil in woods, 1400 ft., Ledermann, 8 ! 12 ! 



Ziower Guinea. Gaboon: Libreville, Klaine, 960! 1156! 1186! and with- 

 oat precise locality, Klaine, 693 ! Spanish Gaboon : Alen Akolentangan, 1500 ft., 

 Tessmann, B. 108 ! 



2. C. Preussii, Warh. in Notizhl. Koiiigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 99. 

 A tall tree with drooping branches and stout terete branchlets, which 

 are finely and f ugaciously rufous-puberulous near the tips. Leaves ob- 

 ovate-oblong and more or less panduriform, obtuse or shortly acute near 

 the base, acuminate or subcuspidate, 7-9 in. long, 3-4 in. broad, char- 

 taceous, rufous-tomentellous in bud, soon glabrous, bright green ; mid- 

 rib prominent below, rather stout towards the base ; lateral nerves 7-11 

 on each side ; veins very indistinct ; petioles \ to almost 1 in. long, stout, 

 channelled. Male panicles usually extra- axillary, up to 2 in. long, 

 finely rufo-pubescent, glabrous below ; peduncle slender, \-l in. long ; 

 first internode up to | in. long, the following (2-5) very much shorter ; 

 ultimate divisions 10-2 lin. long ; involucral disk 1-2 lin. in diam., 

 supporting an umbel of 20 or more yellowish-green flowers ; pedicels 

 slender, up to.lj lin. long, clavate. Perianth ferruginous, finely and 

 sparsely pubescent, 3- (rarely 4- or 5-) partite, 1 lin. long. Andrcecium 

 J lin. long ; anthers 3-5, \ lin. long. Female inflorescences unknown. 

 Fruiting branches panicled, about 5 in. long ; peduncle 1 J-2J in. long ; 

 pedicels 7-10 lin. long, 1 J lin. thick, glabrous. Fruits oblong-ellipsoid, 

 almost 2 in. long, 1^ in. in diam., yellow ; pericarp 3 lin. thick, glabrous ; 

 aril carmine. Seed IJ in. long, | in. in diam. ; testa dark reddish 

 brown, deeply grooved ; rumination-folds about 2 lin. deep. Embryo 



