Chloropatane.] cxv. 3ioxiMiACEiE (baker and wright). 16^ 



Shrubs ; branches slender. Leaves alternate, penninerved. Flowers 

 fascicled. 



Species 2, endemic. 



Leaves obtuse at the base ; lateral nerves about 10 each side 1. C. africana. 



Leaves cuueate at the base ; lateral nerves 6-8 each side • 2. C, Batesii. 



1. C. africana, Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 383. Branches slender, 

 green. Leaves broadly oblong, penninerved, acute or acuminate, 

 obtuse at the base, slightly undulate at the margin, up to 5 in. long 

 and 2 J in. wide; lateral nerves about 10 each side; petiole 2 J lin. 

 long, semiterete, channelled above, biglandular at the apex. Flowers 

 in axillary fascicles on lateral branches 1 J in. long ; outer bracts con- 

 cave, scarious, inner lanceolate ; pedicels 3 lin. long. Perianth green ; 

 segments ovate-lanceolate. — Perkins tfe Gilg in EngL.Pflanzenr. Monim. 

 24, fig. 4, M-R. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : in a wood near Yaunde, Zenker, 494, 798 ; 

 Batanga, Dinklage, 1057. 



2. C. Batesii, C. II. Wright. A shrub 4-8 ft. high. Branches 

 slender, terete. Leaves elliptic, 5 in. long, 2 in. wide, cuspidate, cuneate 

 at the base, thinly membranous, pale green, minutely verrucose below, 

 puberulous on the main nerves, otherwise glabrous ; lateral nerves 4-6 

 each side, slender, looping within the margin ; petiole 4 lin. long, 

 puberulous. Racemes axillary near the end of the branches ; peduncle 

 slender, 10 lin. long ; pedicels filiform, 8 lin. long. Male flower 2J lin. 

 in diam. Perianth shortly 4-lobed, green, glabrous, spherical in bud. 

 Anthers obovoid. Female flower unknown. 



ZiO\irer Guinea. Cameroons : Ef ulen. Bates, 409 ! 



3. XYMALOS, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i G50. 



Flowers dioecious. Male flower : Perianth 4-6-partite ; lobes ovate 

 or lanceolate. Stamens 10-15 ; anthers subsessile, 2-celled, dehiscence 

 longitudinal. Rudiment of ovary none. Female flower: Perianth 

 3-5-lobed. Staminodes absent, or represented by a ring of hairs around 

 the base of the ovary. Ovary obovoid or turbinate, glabrous, 1-celled ; 

 ovule solitary, pendulous, anatropous ; stigma sessile, discoid or sub- 

 hemispherical, wider than the top of the ovary. Fruit fleshy, smooth, 

 crowned by the persistent stigma. Seed compressed-ellipsoid, albu- 

 minous ; embryo small ; cotyledons roundish, flat. — Shrubs or small 

 trees, glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves nearly opposite, coria- 

 ceous, shortly petioled, minutely pellucid-punctate. Racemes solitary or 

 geminate in the axils of the leaves ; bracts ovate or oblong. 

 Species 2, one of which extends into South Africa. 



Leaves obovate to elliptic . . . . . . . 1. A', monospora. 



Leaves oblong' . . . . . . . . . 2. X. ulugure7isis. 



1. X. monospora, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn, Paris, i. G50. A 

 shrub or small tree. Branches glabrous. Leaves alternate or almost 

 opposite, up to 6 in. long and 2 J in. wide, varying from obovate to 



