Tylostemon.] -cxvi. laurine^ (stapf). 185 



filiform, the latter J lin. long. Perianth broad campanulate-turbinate, 

 slightly over 1 lin. long, finely pubescent without, glabrous within ; 

 receptacle less than J the length of the perianth ; segments obtuse, outer 

 Totundate-ovate, inner narrower, more or less oblong-ovate. Stamens 

 villous on the back with the exception of the broad tip of the connective, 

 glabrous in front; outer staminodes clavate, villous except at the 

 thickened tip with a stout gland on each side of the base, inner lanceo- 

 late to ovate-quadrate, thin, more or less hairy on the back, J lin. long. 

 Ovary glabrous, narrowed upwards with a very short style. Fruit 

 •oblong, shortly and obliquely apiculate, not quite 1 in. long and loss 

 than J in. in diam. ; pericarp faintly striate, thin. Testa delicately 

 membranous, almost entirely adnate to the pericarp. 



Upper Guinea. Ciimeroons : Bipiiide, Zenker, 2855 ! 3562 ! 



Imperfectly known species* 



21. T. crassifolius, Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 390. A tree 60-120 

 ft. high, with a long smooth trunk and hard yellowish-brown wood ; 

 branchlets short, drying blackish; leaf-buds fulvo-pubescent. Leaves 

 oblong, at both ends shortly acute to subobtuse, 4-6 in. long, lJ-2 

 in. broad, coriaceous, drying dark greyish -brown, dull, glabrous ; mid- 

 rib flat above, raised and rounded below, moderately slender ; lateral 

 nerves 7-9 on each side, indistinctly looping, like the loose reticulation 

 slightly raised on both sides ; petiole up to 5 lin. long, shallowly chan- 

 nelled. Inflorescences and flowers unknown. Fruitin;j; panicles axillary, 

 shorter than the leaves ; branches spreading ; pedicels 2 lin. long, 

 thickened upwards. Fruit oblong, attenuated below, up to 1 in. long, 

 J lin. in diam. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Joliann-Albrechtshohe, 1000 ft., <S/atti<, 505 ! 



3. HYPODAPHNIS, Stapf. 



Flowers dioecious. Perianth herbaceous, 6 -partite to the base ; 

 segments subequal, deciduous (?). Male: Perfect stamens 6 in 3 

 whorls, staminodes 0; anthers 4-valved, valves collateral, of the 2 

 outer whorls introrse, of the third extrorse ; filaments slender, linear ; 

 «taminal glands 3, large, inserted below the filaments of the second 

 whorl and embracing the bases of their filaments. Ovary inferior, 

 turbinate ; style cylindric, rudimentary ; ovule present, but small, 

 not developing. Female : Stamens as in the male, but smaller, barren 

 with imperfect anther-cells. Ovary inferior as in the male, but style 

 nearly as long as the stamens with a subdiscoid stigma ; ovule large, 

 "developing. Fruit unknown. — Tree. Leaves alternate, penninerved, 

 <joriaceous. Flowers small in subterminal, many-flowered panicles. 



Species 1, in West Africa. 



1. H. Zenker!, Stapf. A shrub or tree, 20-30 ft. high, with 

 densely leafy branches ; all the young parts densely and finely f ulvo- 



