Cryptocarya,'] cxvi. laurine^ (staff). 173 



midrib) fulvo-pubescent when young, soon glabrous. Leaves ovate to 

 elliptic, subacute to subacuminate, acute at the base, 2 J— 4 in. long, 

 lJ-2 in. broad, coriaceous, green above, glaucescent beneath; lateral 

 nerves 4-5 on each side, the lowest pair more oblique than the others 

 and somewhat distant from them, reticulation very close and fine below; 

 petioles 4-8 lin. long. Inflorescences up to 10 lin. long, greyish or 

 fulvo-pubescent, 7-9-flowered ; peduncle slender, 5-7 lin. long ; pedicels 

 up to J lin. long or hardly any. Perianth not quite 1^ lin. long, spar- 

 ingly pubescent without ; receptacle oblong, |-1 lin. long ; segments 

 elliptic, the inner slightly narrower than the outer, all finely pubescent 

 within. Filaments pubescent; anthers ovate, acuminate, outer 6 about 

 f lin. long, inner smaller, narrowly acute ; staminal glands stipitate, 

 their stalks inserted between the stamens of the second and third whorl, 

 but converging in pairs towards the latter; staminodes substipitate. 

 Fruit globose, 6-8 lin. in diam. 



IVXozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara, on mountain slopes near 

 Muafa, 3600 ft., Buchicald, 167 ! 492 ! 



BuclnvakVs specimen 492 in tlie IJritisli Museum collections lias globose fruits, 

 black with a bluish bloom, and crowned with the short j)ersistent cylindric nock of 

 the receptacle. Engler, on the other hand, describes the fruit as reddish-hairy. • 



2. TYLOSTEMON, Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 381). 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth herbaceous, campanulate, turbi- 

 nate or hemispheric, 6- (rarely 8-) lobed ; receptacle cupular or turbinate, 

 usually occupying half of the perianth ; lobes equal or subequal, small. 

 Stamens in 4 whorls, the outer 2 whorls fertile, inserted at or just above 

 the base of the perianth-lobes, the third fertile or like the fourth stami- 

 nodial and inserted in the upper part of the receptacle ; anthers 2-valved, 

 of the 2 outer whorls introrse, of the third (if fertile) extrorse or 

 subextrorse; filaments of the 2 outer whorls broad, much shorter to 

 somewhat longer than the anthers, more or less papillose to villous, of 

 the third whorl similarly hairy, much more slender, with a large gland 

 at each side ; glands either adnate to the very base or up to or beyond 

 the middle of the filament, very rarely {T. ugandensis) fused with the 

 receptacle and lining it as a fleshy disk ; staminodes (of the third whorl 

 if barren) usually reduced to the filaments and glands, of the fourth 

 whorl usually representing reduced anthers, sessile or subsessile, tri- 

 angular, subcordate or subhastate, rarely reduced to rudimentary 

 filaments. Ovary sessile, more or less immersed in the receptacle, 

 attenuated into the slender style; stigma small. Fruit oblong, borne 

 on the slightly thickened or sometimes obconical pedicels ; pericarp 

 crustaceous. Seed with a delicate testa, adnate to the pericarp ; coty- 

 ledons large, plano-convex. — Trees or shrubs, glabrous with the exception 

 of the leaf-buds, and usually also the inflorescences. Leaves alternate, 

 rarely subopposite, penninerved. Flowers small, greenish, in some- 

 times large and many-flowered axillary or subterminal panicles, with 

 small boat-shaped early deciduous bracts. 



About 21 species, mostly in West Africa. 



