lUigera.] cxviA. HERNANDiACEiE (sprague). 193 



swollen at the base; leaflets ovate, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 2-5 in. 

 long, 1-2 J in. broad, rounded or obtuse at the base, shortly obtusely 

 acuminate at the apex, coriaceous, glabrous above, slightly puberu- 

 lous below ; lateral nerves about 3 on each side of the midrib ; partial 

 petioles |-J in. long. Cymes axillary, and panicled at the ends of the 

 branches ; peduncle and pedicels tomentose or pubescent. Perianth- 

 tube about J lin. long, villous inside ; outer lobes lanceolate-oblong, 

 4 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, green ; inner lobes linear-subulate, 3 J lin. long, 

 I lin. broad, slightly villous at the base, greenish-yellow or pink. Fila- 

 ments 1J-1| lin. long, puberulous, villous near the base. Paired 

 staminodes solid, horn-shaped, -J lin. long, whitish ; solitary staminodes 

 subsessile, peltate, J-J lin. in diam., concave above. Ovary 1 lin. long, 

 densely pubescent ; style 2 lin. long, puberulous. Fruit about 1 1 in. long ; 

 spread of wings 2J-3 in. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 355 ; Baker 

 f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxxvii. 152 ; Dunn, ibid, xxxviii. 295. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : on mountains at Aburi, Brown, 317 ! Came- 

 roons : Yaunde, Zenker^ 1426 ! Bipinde, Zenker^ 3573 ! 



ITile ]band. Uganda : Victoria Nyanza ; Buvuma Island, Bagshowe, 601 ! 

 619! 



Itovrer Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto ; among the mountains of Serra de 

 Alto Queta and of Quilombo, WelwUsch^ 1753 ! 



Order CXVII. PROTEACEiE. (By J. G. Baker and 

 C. H. Wright.) 



Flowers hermaphrodite or by abortion polygamous or dioecious, but 

 a style always present in the male flowers and staminodes in the 

 female, regular or slightly irregular. Perianth inferior ; tube cylin- 

 dric or inflated at the base ; limb globose, ovoid, or cylindric and 

 s^frcely wider than the tube, formed of 4 lobes valvately cohering at 

 first, at length more or less separating and recurving. Stamens 4, 

 opposite the perianth-lobes and inserted near their base, always shorter 

 than the perianth ; filaments short, rarely as long as the anthers. 

 Hypogynous glands 4, alternate with the stamens, free or connate, in 

 some genera absent. Ovary superior, sessile or stalked, 1-celled, often 

 oblique ; style short or long, often variously thickened at the apex ; 

 stigma small, terminal or sublateral ; ovules solitary or geminate and 

 collateral (rarely superposed) or numerous and in two series, amphi- 

 tropous or nearly anatropous, micropyle always inferior and usually 

 conspicuous. Fruit a nut or drupe, or a capsule or follicle with thick 

 coriaceous valves. Seeds compressed or thick, exnlbuminous ; testa 

 membranous or coriaceous, sometimes produced into a wing ; cotyle- 

 dons flat and equal, or thick fleshy and unequal ; radicle short or 

 retracted into a sinus at the base of the cotyledons. — Shrubs or trees, 

 rarely perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite or verti- 

 cillate, quite entire, toothed or much divided, sometimes even on the 

 same plant, usually coriaceous, exstipulate. Flowers capitate, racemose 



