178 cxvi. LAURiNEiE (stapf). [Tt/lo8temon. 



tomentellous dorsally, 2-3 lin. long, early deciduous ; pedicels filiform, 

 nob much over J lin. long. Perianth wide-campanulate, 1 J lin. long, 

 loosely and minutely pubescent ; receptacle J the length of the perianth, 

 but well defined; segments oblong, very obtuse, ciliolate. Introrse 

 stamens with broad-linear filaments, very sparingly hairy, almost twice 

 the length of the anthers, extrorse narrower, rather more hairy, with a 

 large gland at each side of the base ; staminodes subhastate, acuminate, 

 hairy without. Ovary glabrous, almost as long as the slender style. — 

 Beitschmiedia Staudtii, Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 387, t. 9, fig. D. Afrodaphne 

 Stavdtii, Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 111. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : .Tohann-Albreclitshohe, Siaudt, 857 ! 



7. T. Mannii, Stapf. A tree, about 20 ft. high ; branches 

 moderately stout, the old grey, the young drying greenish-brown, 

 striate, somewhat compressed upwards ; leaf-buds adpressedly greyish 

 to fulvous-pubescent. Leaves lanceolate, oblanceolate or oblong, acute 

 or acuminate (acumen over \ in. long, attenuated from a broader base), 

 acute (rarely subobtuse) at the base, 4-9 in. long, 1^-4 in. broad, thinly 

 coriaceous, drying greenish- brown ; midrib flat or nearly so above, 

 sometimes rather broad, prominent and rounded below ; lateral nerves 

 7-10 on each side, ascending, running out along the margin, fine 

 above, stouter beneath, like the loose reticulation raised on both sides ; 

 petiole J-J in. long, more or less channelled above. Panicles sub- 

 terminal and on short sparingly leafy lateral branches, 2-6 in. long, 

 lJ-4 in. broad, very sparingly pubescent or glabrous; peduncle short, 

 like the rhachis more or less compressed ; lower branches spreading, 

 1-4 in. long, loosely but copiously divided above the lower J or J ; 

 ultimate branchlets and pedicels filiform, the latter usually not exceed- 

 ing 1 lin. (rarely 2 lin.) long; bracts small and very early deciduous. 

 Perianth broad-turbinate to hemispheric, up to almost IJ lin. long, 

 glabrous except for the ciliolate margins or sparingly and minutely 

 pubescent outside ; receptacle J-§ the length of the perianth or nearly 

 so ; lobes broad-ovate or rotundate. Introrse stamens with the filaments 

 somewhat longer than the short anthers and hairy along the edges and 

 the middle line and on their back ; extrorse anthers with linear, more or 

 less hairy filaments and a large roundish gland on each side of their 

 base ; staminodes ovate to subhastate, acuminate or apiculate, hairy on 

 the outer side. Ovary glabrous, gradually passing into a style of about 

 equal length. Fruit oblong, stipitate, over IJ in. long, about f in. in 

 diam., obtuse, brown, somewhat shining; stipes solid, 3 lin. long. Seed 

 over 1 in. long. — Oreodaphne ? Mannii, Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xv. i. 130. 

 Beilschmiedia sp., Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 152, 158, B. elata, 

 Scott-Elliot in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 9G (excl. Mann, 2255a). Afro- 

 daphne Mannii and A. elata, Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 111. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : near Musaia, Falaba, Scott-EUiot, 5125 ! 

 Mofari, Scarcies 'River, Scott-JElliot, 4:^0 \ Cameroons : Bipinde, Zenker, 1695! 

 2609! 3167! 



Xiower Guinea. Gaboon : by the Gaboon River, Mann ! 



