184 cxvi. LAURiNBiE ( STAFF ). [TylosUmon, 



and then sometimes gathered into a leafy compound panicle, lJ-2 in. 

 long, all parts like the flowers greyish-fulvous puberulous ; peduncle 

 very short ; bracts boat-shaped, ovate, 3-4 lin. long ; pedicels J-J lin. 

 long. Perianth globose-turbinate, ^ lin. to 1 lin. long ; receptacle f the 

 length of the perianth ; lobes rotundate-ovate. Stamens of the first 

 and second whorl with very short and broad obovate hairy filaments ; 

 staminodes of the third whorl conical, hairy except at the tip, with a 

 stout roundish gland on each side, of the fourth order ovate, acute, 

 hairy without, rather thin. Ovary glabrous ; style not exceeding the 

 perianth. — Beilschmiedia obscura, Engl, ex Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xxvii. 112. Afrodaphiie obscura, Stapf, I.e. (name only). 



upper Oulnea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 21171 26]2! Gaboon (?) 

 Como, by streams. Bates, 845 ! 



19. T. papyracens, Stapf, Branches pubescent when young, 

 soon glabrescent, drying dark brown ; leaf-buds reddish tomentose, 

 acuminate. Leaves elliptic-oblong, subobtuse or subsicuminate, rounded 

 at the base, 4-8 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, papery, drying jdull greenish- 

 brown above, reddish-brown below, glabrous ; midrib flat or shallowly 

 channelled above, much raised below ; lateral nerves 9-1 1 on each side, 

 rather straight, then curved towards the margin, and looping close to it, 

 faintly sunk above, raised below, reticulation loose, slightly raised on 

 both sides ; petiole rather stout, faintly channelled above, 3-4 lin. long. 

 Panicle slender, up to 2 in. long, including the peduncle (over 1 in. 

 long), f ulvo-pubescent all over ; bracts ovate, acute, up to 2 lin. long, 

 densely fulvo-tomentose ; branchlets and pedicels filiform, the latter 

 J-J lin. long. Perianth turbinate, not quite 1 lin. long, finely and 

 minutely fulvo-puberulous ; receptacle f the length of the perianth ; 

 segments broad-ovate, obtuse, more or less pubescent within. Stamens 

 sparingly and minutely papillose-pubescent on the back and below 

 the anthers in front ; filaments shorter than the anthers, those of the 

 third whorl with rudimentary anthers forming a subrhomboid head and 

 a stout gland on each side ; staminodes of the fourth whorl minute, 

 cylindric, hairy. Ovary papillose-pubescent with a short style. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroous : Bipinde, Z^ew^er, 2065 ! 



20. T. membranaceus, Stapf. Branches slender, glabrous, 

 drying brown or greenish ; terminal bud slender, very finely fulvous- 

 pubescent. Leaves oblong or oblanceolate, acuminate (acumen often 

 very narrow, gradually attenuate at the base), about 4 in. long and up 

 to IJ in. broad, membranous to subcoriaceous, glabrous, concolorous, 

 drying a light greenish-brown ; midrib slender, flat or faintly concave 

 above, slender, raised below ; lateral nerves about 7 on each side, 

 obliquely ascending, ^Qore or less looping or running out into an indis- 

 tinct submarginal nerve, like the loose reticulation slightly raised on 

 both sides ; petiole 2-3 lin. long, channelled. Panicles from the axils 

 of the upper (sometimes arrested and early deciduous) leaves, very 

 slender, 1-1 J in. long, finely f ulvo-pubescent ; branchlets and pedicels 



