Tj/lostemo7i.] cxvi. laurine.e (staff). 179 



8. T, longipeSy Stapf. A tree, 20 ft. high, glabrous with the 

 •exception of the fulvous-velvety leaf -buds ; branches drying greenish^ 

 brown. Leaves oblong to elliptic-oblong, abruptly and shortly acuminate, 

 obtuse or shortly acute at the base, 4-G in. long, 2-2| in. broad, 

 coriaceous, glabrous, drying brownish-green ; midrib flat or slightly con- 

 <^ve above, prominent below ; lateral nerves 6-7 on each side, obliquely 

 ascending, indistinctly looping, like the loose reticulation slightly raised 

 on both sides ; petioles 4-5 lin. long, channelled above. Panicles sub- 

 terminal and also from last year's wood, very lax, subdivaricate, about 

 4 in. long and wide, glabrous ; peduncles short ; branches subopposite 

 (particularly the lower) or alternate, very slender ; bracts very early 

 deciduous (not seen) ; pedicels finely filiform, 1-3 J lin. long. Perianth 

 depressed hemispheric when quite open, up to 1 J lin. high, quite glabrous 

 except for the inner segments, which are more or less minutely pubescent 

 towards the tip and ciliolate ; receptacle less than J the length of the 

 perianth ; segments rotundate. Introrse stamens with villous filaments, 

 ■distinctly longer than the anthers and at least as broad, extrorse with 

 narrower villous filaments, more than twice the length of the anther, 

 and large sessile glands at each side of the base ; staminodes subhastate, 

 acuminate, villous without, glabrous within. Ovary glabrous, as long 

 as the slender style. — Beilschmiedia elata, Scott-Elliot in Journ. Linn. 

 'Soc. XXX. 9G, partly. 



Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Mann, 2255 (partly) ! 2255a ! 



'9. T, cinnaxnomeus, Stapf. Branches slender ; the young drying 

 cdnnamon-colour, the old dark greyish-brown ; leaf-buds finely fulvous- 

 tomentellous. Leaves oblong to oblanceolate-oblong, acuminate, acute 

 or rarely obtuse at the base, 4-6 in. long, 1^-2 in. broad, thinly 

 coriaceous, drying brown to cinnamon-colour, glabrous ; midrib slender, 

 rather flat above; lateral nerves 8-10 on each side, the lower running 

 out along the margin, the upper looping, like the loose reticulation 

 faintly raised ; petiole up to 2 lin. long, channelled above. Panicles 

 subterminal, |-1 in. long and wide, dense ; branches up to more than 

 J in. long, like the branchlets and pedicels filiform, very finely fulvo- 

 pubescent all over ; bracts boat-shaped, 1 lin. long, early deciduous ; 

 pedicels up to almost 1 lin. long, mostly much shorter. Perianth 

 broad-turbinate, 3- or 4-merous, not quite 1 lin. long, finely greyish- 

 brown pubescent without ; receptacle J the length of the perianth or 

 nearly so ; segments broad-ovate, ciliolate. Introrse stamens with the 

 filaments longer and narrower below than the very short anthers and 

 densely villous on the back, glabrous in front except at the edges; 

 extrorse anthers with linear more or less papillose-villous filaments and 

 a large gland on each side of the base ; staminodes rather thin, lanceolate- 

 triangular, acuminate, villous on the outer side. Ovary glabrous, as 

 long as the slender style. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Bipinde. Zenker, 2855 ! 



10. T. batangensis, JSngl. Jahrb. xxvi. 390. A tree with pale 

 greyish bark, young branches drying greenish ; leaf-buds fulvous- 



