180 cxvi. LAURiNE.E (stapf). [Tylosteinon , 



velvety. Leaves oblong to oblong-elliptic, acuminate, acute at the- 

 base, 2J-4 in. long, 1-1 1 in. broad, -thinly coriaceous, glabrous, drying 

 almost" copper-red, particularly below; midrib slender, flat above, 

 prominent and rather acute below ; lateral nerves G-8 on each side, 

 ascending, looping, very slender, like the lax reticulation slightly pro- 

 minent below ; petiole slender, 4-5 lin. long. Inflorescences and flowers 

 unknown. Fruiting panicles lateral and subterminal, spreading, up to- 

 2| in. long ; pedicels up to 3 lin. long, thickened upwards. Fruit 

 obliquely oblong, mostly slightly curved, sometimes obscurely and 

 obtusely acuminate, up to 1 in. long, \ in. in diam. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Batanga, in dry forests, Blnklage, 1375 ! 



11. T. nitiduS) Stapf. An arborescent shrub, 15-25 ft. high, with 

 slender densely leafy branchlets, drying brown ; leaf-buds adpressedly 

 fulvous-pubescent. Leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, shortly 

 acuminate, rarely subobtuse, subacute at the base, up to 4 in. long and 

 IJ in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, more or less shining above; midrib 

 very slender and rather flat above, somewhat raised below ; lateral 

 nerves 8-10 on each side, looping some distance from the margin, like 

 the loose reticulation faintly raised, particularly below ; petiole finely 

 channelled above, 3-4 lin. long. Panicles axillary, numerous, 1-1 J in. 

 long (including the short peduncle), up to over 1 in. broad, finely and 

 densely rufo-pubescent all over ; branches ascending, 4-5 lin. long ; 

 branchlets and pedicels very short, the latter not quite J lin. long. 

 Perianth broad-turbinate, J lin. high, up to 1} lin. in diam., finely 

 pubescent without ; receptacle J the length of the perianth, glabrous 

 within ; segments rotundate, ciliolate. Introrse stamens with more or 

 less hairy filaments, about as long as the very short anthers, but 

 narrower ; extrorse anthers with linear loosely hairy filaments and a 

 large roundish gland on each side of the base ; staminodes subhastate,. 

 acute, glabrous within. Ovary glabrous, suddenly contracted into a 

 slender, slightly longer style. — Beilschmieclia nitida, Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 

 387, t. 9, fig. E. Afrodaphne nitida, Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 

 111. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Lolodorf, in sliadv, moist places, 1600 ft., 

 Staudt, 104 ! 106 ! 



12. T. Dinklagei, Engl. Jahrh. xxvi. 389. A tree or shrub 

 with slender branches, young ones drying greenish-brown, old covered 

 with pale bark ; leaf -buds finely and adpressedly pubescent. Leaves 

 elliptic- to lanceolate-oblong, gradually contracted into an acute 

 rather long acumen, obtuse at the base, lJ-3 in. long, 1-1 J in. broad, 

 thinly coriaceous, drying brown, glabrous ; midrib very slender, rather 

 flat above, slightly raised below; lateral nerves C-8 on each side, 

 obliquely spreading, looping, fine, raised on both sides, reticulation 

 loose, faintly raised below, obscure above ; petiole 3-5 lin. long, slender, 

 channelled above. Panicles axillary, 2-2 i in. long, finely pubescent ; 

 peduncle more than J in. long, more or less compressed ; lower branches. 



