2i)2 CXVIII. TJ1YMEL.EAC'E.E (pEARSON). [PecUlku. 



Anthers short, linear-ovate. Style stout, rather longer than the ovary ; 

 stigma broad, cup-shaped ; hypogynous disc cup-shaped, not lobed, with 

 a crenulate villous margin, about I as high as the ovary. Fruit not seen. 



Mozamb. I>lstr. liritisli Central Africa: Nyasalaud; Mount Malosa, 4000- 

 €000 ft., Whyte ! 



8. P. Zenkeri, Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 256. A tree (? shrub). 

 Leaves membranous, shortly petioled, elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, 

 4J-5J in. long, Ij-lJ in. broad; primary lateral nerves ascending, 

 much-branched, prominent. Umbel terminal, 6-10-flowered, glabrous ; 

 peduncle about \ in. long, with numerous prominent bract-scars near 

 the base ; bracts crowded, linear-oblong, finely pubescent on the margin, 

 caducous, ^-Jin. long, about 2 lin. broad. Flowers 4-merous : pedicels 

 about \ in. long. Calyx-tube glabrous, \ in. long ; lobes oblong or 

 triangular, rounded or truncate at the apex, pubescent at the apex, 

 otherwise glabrous, erect or spreading during flowering, about \ lin. long. 

 Anthers oblong. Ovary deeply furrowed at the base ; style stout, 

 shorter than the ovary ; stigma capitate; hypogynous disc cup-shaped, 

 irregularly lobed, pubescent, \ lin. high. Fruit subglobose, narrowed 

 towards the apex, 1-celled, containing 2 seeds, 5 lin. long, 4 lin. broad. 

 Seed ovoid-acuminate, flattened along one face, 4 lin. long. 



Upper Guinea. Canieroons: Yaunde, 2600 ft., Zenker^ 155 ! 



10. OCTOLEPIS, Oliver; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 201. 



(Jalyx-tube 4- or O-partite ; lobes imbricate. Petals 8 or 10 in pairs 

 at the base of and opposite to the calyx-lobes, entire. Stamens S or 10, 

 hypogynous or slightly perigynons, alternating with the petals ; fila- 

 ments free, subulate ; anthers small, ovate or ovate-cordate, 2-celled, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary superior, sessile, ovoid, 4- or r)-celled ; 

 style short, terminal ; stigma small, dilated, papillose. Ovule solitary 

 in each cell, pendulous. Fruit a 4-seeded loculicidal erect leathery cap- 

 sule. Seed exalbuminous, spindle-shaped, with a thin leathery testa pro- 

 longed at the lower end into a thick corky projection. — Small trees 

 oi- shrubs with silky-fibrous inner bark. Leaves alternate. Flowers 

 axillary, white. — Makokoa, Baiil. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. G19. 



!S))ecies 5, all in West Tropical Africa. 



Flower 5-inerous . . . . . . . 1. O. decalepis. 



Flower 4-merous. 



Leaves 2^-7 in. long. 



Primary lateral nerves 8-9; leaves rarely above 



4 in. long . . . . . . . 2. O. nodosericea. 



Primary lateral nerves 10-14 ; leaves always above 

 4 in. long. 

 Young branches glabrous . . . . 3. O. Dinklagei, 



Y'oung branches pubescent or puberulous . . 4. 6. Casearia. 



Leaves 8-12 iji. long. 



Leaves shortly and abruptly acuminate . . . 4. O. Casearia. 



Leaves long-acuminate . . . . . 5. O. ma^ro'phyUa. 



