Ti/lo8temon.] cxvi. laurine.e (staff). 181 



spreading, up to 1 in. long, loosely flowered; ultimate branchlets and 

 pedicels tiliform, the latter up to 1 lin. long, clavate in fruit. Perianth 

 broad-turbinate, scarcely IJ lin. long, very minutely pubescent without, 

 greenish ; receptacle h the length of the perianth or almost so, sparingly 

 and minutely hairy within ; segments ovate to broad ovate-oblong, very 

 .sparingly and minutely hairy upwards. Introrse stamens with fila- 

 ments as long as and narrower than the anthers and papillose along 

 the edges and middle front line ; extrorse anthers with slender papillose 

 filaments and a large gland on each side ; staminodes filiform, hairy. 

 Ovary glabrous, very gradually passing into the slender style. Fruit 

 oblong, about 1 in. long, not quite J in. in diam. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : liatanga, in dry, open forests, Zfinkla^e, 1140 ! 



13. T. ugandensiS) Stapf. A shrub ; old branches with a rough 

 greyish bark, young ones smooth, drying blackish ; leaf-buds fulvous, 

 silky -velvety. Leaves elliptic, obtuse to obscurely acuminate, obtuse to 

 rounded at the base, 4-G in. long, 2 to over 3 in. broad, coriaceous, 

 glabrous, drying brown, very dark above ; midrib flat above, rounded 

 -and moderately prominent below; lateral nerves 1>-11 on each side, 

 rather spreadingly oblique, indistinctly looping, like the reticulation 

 faintly raised above, more so below ; petiole 3-4 in. long, stout, shallowly 

 <3hannelled above. Panicles axillary, 1-3 in. long, 1 J-2 in. wide, finely 

 rufo-puberulous all over; peduncle J-1 in. long; lowest branches more 

 ■or less spreading, undivided to J or ^ way up, then copiously branched, 

 many-flowered; ultimate branchlets and pedicels subfiliform, the latter 

 up to over 2 lin. long. Perianth greenish, very shallowly turbinate, 3- 

 or 4-merous, very minutely fulvo- or rufo-puberulous, li to over 2 lin. 

 in diam. ; receptacle about f the length of the perianth, rather fleshy 

 from the large adnate staminal glands, which dry a deep black, hairy 

 at the base within ; segments rotundate-ovate, minutely hairy inside. 

 Introrse stamens subsessile, hairy on both sides ; extrorse stamens with 

 a villous filament about as long as the anther and a large gland on each 

 side ; staminodes very small, ovate, villous on the outer side. Ovary 

 glabrous, as long as the style. — BeilscJntiiedia ugandensis^ Rendle in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 203. 



wile Kand. Uganda: shore of Victoria Nyanza, to the north of Bakova 

 Kiver, liagshawe, 142 ! 



14. fr. caudatas, Stapf. Branchlets drying blackish. Leaves 

 •oblong, caudate-acuminate (tips slender, to over 1 in. long), obtuse at 

 the base, about 9 in. long, up to 3 J in. broad, coriaceous, quite glabrous, 

 -concolorous, somewhat shining below, drying greenish-brown ; lateral 

 nerves about 8 on each side, curved, looping within an additional sub- 

 marginal nerve, reticulation of veins distinct on both sides ; petioles 

 ^ lin. long, stout. Panicle lax, up to 8 in. long, finely fulvo-puberulous ; 

 peduncle up to 3 in. long ; bracts few, ovate, concave, deciduous, up to 

 2 lin. long, fulvo- tomentellous ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long. Perianth turbi- 

 nate, H-2 lin. long, fulvo-tomentellous without ; receptacle j lin. high, 



