J^eddiea.] cxviii. thymel/EACE^ (pearson). 249 



shortly stalked, densely pubescent above the middle, with 2 1-ovuled 

 cells ; style short ; stigma capitate or more or less saucer-shaped ; 

 hypogynous disc cup-shaped, surrounding the base of the ovary, entire, 

 toothed or lobed. Fruit with a more or less fleshy exocarp and a hard 

 endocarp, 1- (rarely 2-) seeded. Seed exalbuminous (rarely containing 

 a little albumen) ; cotyledons thick. — Glabrous shrubs or small trees 

 with alternate membranous or subcoriaceous leaves. Flowers yellowish- 

 green, long-pedicelled in loose terminal peduncled racemes or umbels. 

 Species 10, in Tropical and South Africa, 

 lutiorescence racemose. 



1. p. longiflora, Engl, d' Gilg In Engl. Jahrh. xix. 257. A shrub. 

 (Leaves membranous, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, ob- 

 tuse, rarely subacute, shortly petioled, glabrous, 4J-6 in. long, IJ— 

 1| in. broad; primary lateral nerves ascending, much-branched, con- 

 spicuous. Umbel terminal, 10-12-flowered, glabrous ; peduncle 1-2J in. 

 long ; bracts at the base of the peduncle crowded, obovate-lanceolate, 

 J in. long, 2-2 J lin. broad ; upper bracts large, leaf-like, persistent. 

 Flowers green, 4-merous ; pedicels about J in. long. Calyx- tube 

 glabrous, with prominent longitudinal ridges, 6-7 lin. long; lobes 

 triangular-ovate, rounded at the apex, finely pubescent on the margins, 

 J-1 lin. long, erect during flowering. Anthers linear-ovate. Ovary 

 deeply furrowed at the base ; style stout, expanding above into the broad 

 circular stigma; hypogynous disc cup-shaped, toothed or irregularly 

 4-5-lobed to the middle, with a crenulate villous margin, \-\ as high 

 as the ovary. Fruit not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Togo : Bismarckburg, in thickets near streams, Biittner, 220 ; 

 wet thickets between Jegge and Konkoa, Biittner, 481 ; Assuma, in thickets, 

 Biittner, 287 ! 



Xlle ]Lancl. Uganda : Entebbe, Brown, 214 ! 



2. P. Fischeri, Engl. Hochgehirgsji. Trop. Afr. 810. Leaves 

 subcoriaceous, shortly petioled, lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, 2£-3i in. 

 long, f-lj in. broad ; primary lateral nerves ascending, much-branched, 

 .prominent. Umbel terminal, 8-10-flowered, glabrous ; peduncle i-1 in. 



