Tylostenion.] cxvi. laurine.e (staff). I75 



Perianth sparingly and minutely pubescent, drying 



black, not quite 1 lin. long . . . . IQ. T. Zenkeri. 



Panicles 1-2 in. long, on short peduncles. 

 Leaves distinctly coriaceous. 



Leaves 5-9 in. by l-|-4 in., drying brown . . 17. T. gahoonensis. 



Leaves 3-5 in. by \\-2h in., drying dark and 



dull brown (fuscous) . , . . . 18. ^. ohscurus. 



Leaves papery or almost membranous. 



Leaves papery, elliptic-oblong, rounded at the 



base ; ovary pubescent . . . . . 19. T. papyraceus. 



Leaves almost membranous, gradually attenuate at 



the base; ovary glabrous . . , . 20. T. memlranaceus. 



1. T. sessilifolius, Stajif. Branches stout, drying grey, glabrous* 

 Leaves sessile, oblanceolate-oblong, acuminate (acumen slender and up 

 to 1 in. long), narrowed from above the middle towards the base, cor- 

 date with rounded auricles, up to 15 in. long and 4 J in, broad, papery^ 

 glabrous, drying fuscous-brown, slightly shining ; midrib flat or nearly 

 so and moderately broad above, i-aised and rather narrow below ; 

 lateral nerves about 12 on each side, ascending, the lower much more 

 oblique than the upper, not or indistinctly looping, like the loose 

 elegant reticulation raised on both sides. Panicle over 3 in. by 2 in., 

 rather slender, finely pubescent in the upper part ; peduncle short ; 

 lower branches distant, up to 2 in. long, undivided up to half-way, 

 much divided and many- flowered higher up ; ultimate branchlets and 

 pedicels very short, the latter filiform, under 1 lin. long. Perianth 

 (not quite open) subglobose-turbinate, | lin. long, very finely pubescent 

 without ; receptacle about half the length of the perianth ; segments 

 rotundate. Introrse stamens with filaments as long and broad as the 

 short anthers, minutely and sparingly hairy at the base of the anthers 

 and along the middle line of the filament ; extrorse stamens with a hairy 

 tip to the connective and a roundish large gland at each side of the base 

 of the filament ; staminodes triangular. Ovary glabrous. — Afrodaphne 

 sessilifolia, Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 111. Beilschmiedia sessili- 

 folia, Engl, ex Stapf, I.e. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Bipimle, .^e«^er, 2256! 



2. T. fruticosus, Stapf. A shrub, 5 ft. high, with greyish or 

 green branches ; leaf -buds minutely fulvo-tomentose. Leaves elliptic- 

 oblong, acuminate (acumen up to 1 in. long), obtuse at the base, 8-12 

 in. long, 3-5 in. broad, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, drying brown, 

 slightly shining ; midrib rather broad, flat or slightly convex above, pro- 

 minent and rounded underneath ; lateral nerves 7-9 on each side, curved, 

 intermediate 1-2 in. apart, the lower more oblique than the upper 

 spreading, sunk above, raised below, loose reticulation raised on both 

 sides ; petiole stout, 3 lin. long, narrowly channelled above. Panicles 

 3-4 in. long, up to 2 J in. wide, slender, finely fulvo-pubescent all over; 

 peduncle J-1 J in. long ; lowest branches up to more than 1 in. long, dis- 

 tant, undivided in the lower third or half, then copiously divided and 

 many-flowered ; ultimate branchlets and pedicels filiform, short, the 



