740 cxxii. EuriiouBiACK.i-: (hutchixson). [Zimmermannia. 



l<no\vii. A shrub. Leaves alternate, membranous, entire, penni- 



nerved, shortly petiohate ; stipules harge and foliaceous. Flowers in 

 axillary fascicles, males few, pedicellate, females solitary, long-pedicel- 

 late, pedicel hardening in fruit. 

 Species 1, endemic. 



1. Z. capillipes. Pax inEmjl.Jahrh. xlv. 235. A shrub ; branch- 

 lets slightly and obtusely angular, sparingly lenticellate, glabrous. 

 Leaves oblong or oblong-elliptic, triangular-acuminate, sharply mucro- 

 nate, obtuse or subacute at the base, 5-7 in. long, '1-21 in. broa<l, 

 entire, membranous, glabrous; lateral nerves 1)-10 on each side, 

 spreading and arcuate, looped near the margin, prominent on both 

 surfaces ; veins very lax, distinct below ; petiole 3-5 lin. long, closely 

 grooved above, glabrous ; stipules foliaceous, broadly reniform, oblique, 

 subcordate at the base, encircling the branchlets, mucronate or shortly 

 acuminate, about 3 lin. long and ^ in. broad, nervose, glabrous. Flowers 

 moncecious, axillary, few. Male flowers: pedicel about '1 lin. long, 

 glabrous. Sepals 5, rounded-elliptic, rounded at the apex, 1 lin. long, 

 membranous, glabrous. Disk Hat, adnate to the base of the sepals, 

 very slightly 5-lobed ; lobes rounded, alternate with the sepals, slightly 

 verrucose. Stamens 5 ; filaments free to the base, about 1 lin. long, 

 glabrous ; anthers large, oblong-ellipsoid, f lin. long, glabrous. Rudi- 

 mentary ovary very small, slightly trilobed, glabrous. Female flowers 

 about J in. in diam. when flattened and spread out ; pedicel attaining 

 1 J in. in length, slender, glabrous. Sepals ovate, obtuse, '1\ lin. long, 

 l| lin. broad, submembranous, nervose from the base, glabrous. Disk 

 as in the male. Ovary ovoid -globose, smooth ; styles 3, ascending, 

 entire and slightly swollen at the tips, nearly 1 lin. long, glabrous. 



Mozaxnb. I>lstr> (ienimn East Africa: Amani, on the Dodwa lliver, 

 Ziitimermann, 2547 ! 



34a. ANDROSTACHYS, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1!)08, 438. 



Flowers dioecious. Petals and disk absent. Male flowers : Calyx 

 composed of 2-5 bract-like free spirally arranged sepals. Stamens very 

 many, spirally arranged on a prolonged axis ; lowest filaments very 

 short and recurved, remaining anthers sessile ; anthers elongated, more 

 or less applied to the axis ; cells distinct, adnate to the connective, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary absent. Female flowers : 

 Calyx 5-partite ; segments ovate, acuminate, imbricate. Ovary 3-celled, 

 densely pilose; styles connate into a pilose column ; stigmas ;>, spread- 

 ing ; ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule breaking up into three 2-valved 

 cocci ; endocarp crustaceous. Seeds compressed, ovate ; albumen 

 fleshy ; cotyledons flat, much broader than the radicle. — A tall erect 

 tree ; branchlets more or less silky-hairy, angular and articulated. 

 Leaves opposite, decussate, long-petiolate, coriaceous, more or less silky 

 beneath ; stipules large, coriaceous, connate, interpetiolar and intra- 

 petiolar forming a sheath enclosing the flowers and young leaves. 



