Plagiostyles."] cxv. monimiace^ (baker and wright). 171 



1. P. klaineana, Pierre in Bull, Soc. Linn. Paris, ii. 1327. A 

 tree up to 32 ft. high. Branches terete, glabrous. Leaves alternate, 

 oblong, acuminate, 6 in. long, 2\ in. wide, subcoriaceous, glabrous; 

 lateral nerves about 5 on each side, uniting by loops within the 

 margin ; reticulation fine ; petiole about 6 lin. long, slender, glabrous. 

 Racemes axillary, much shorter than the leaves. Male flower : Perianth 

 about IJ lin. in diam., glabrous; lobes short, rounded. Stamens about 

 30. Female flower: Perianth cupular, 1 lin. long, glabrous; lobes 

 rounded. Ovary oblong, slightly oblique. Fruit transversely oblong, 

 with the stigma lateral through unequal growth, 4 lin. high, 9 lin. 

 across the longer and 6 lin. across the shorter diameter. Seed of the 

 same shape as the fruit, minutely black verrucose, with a very large 

 central cavity containing on the side against the base of the fruit a 

 pale-brown thin saucer-shaped body as long and wide as the seed, 

 attached by a small point, and enclosing the small embryo ; " endosperm 

 oily" {Pierre). — Pax in Engl. & Pranti, Planzenfam. Nachtr. ii.-iii. 38. 



IjOixrer Guinea. Cameroons : Bipinde, Zenker, 1730! Gaboon: Issoula, 

 Elaine, 1010 ! 1096 ! 



Order CXVI. LAURINE^. (By 0, Stapf.) 



Flowers hermaphrodite, polygamous or dicecious, regular. Perianth 

 inferior, very rarely superior [Hypodaphniii) ; tube (receptacle) ovoid, 

 turbinate, campanulate or rarely oblong, sometimes growing out and 

 persisting after flowering ; lobes usually 6, equal or more or less 

 unequal, in 2 whorls, or the perianth divided almost to the very base 

 into 6 equal or subequal segments; aestivation imbricate. Stamens 

 typically in 4 whorls at the base of and opposite to the perianth-lobes 

 or in the upper part of the receptacle, often one or the other (usually 

 the fourth) reduced to staminodes or entirely suppressed ; filaments 

 usually present, more or less flattened, varying from very short to 

 several times the length of the anther, those of the third whorl 

 mostly with a pair of large globose glands at the sides or the base 

 or behind them (i.e., between the second and third whorl), very 

 rarely the glands fused with the receptacle into a disk, or also 

 the outer stamens with glands at the base ; anthers continuous with 

 the filaments, 2- or 4-valved, valves superposed or more or less 

 collateral, dehiscing from the base upwards, introrse, or those of the 

 third whorl more often extrorse. Ovary superior, often more or 

 less surrounded by the receptacle or ultimately quite enclosed in it, 

 very rarely inferior {Hypodaphnis), 1-celled ; style terminal, short or 

 long, simple ; stigma small, obtuse or unilaterally widened or discoid. 

 Ovule solitary, anatropous, pendulous from near the apex of the ovary. 

 Fruit baccate, fleshy or more or less drupaceous, indehiscent, more or 

 less surrounded by or entirely free or enclosed in the persistent and 

 accrescent perianth or its receptacular portion, often borne on an 

 enlarged pedicel. Seed pendulous, exalbuminous ; testa membranous, 

 often adnate to the pericarp and indistinct in the mature state. 



