104G ADDENDA. 



1. Apodiscus Chevalieri, Hutchinson in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 

 11)12, Iviii. Mem. viii. 'loQ. A tree 25-30 ft. high; branchlets sulcate 

 or longitudinally wrinkled, glabrous. Leaves oblong or oblong-elliptic, 

 obtusely or subacutely acuminate, subcuneate at the base, 3-7 in. long, 

 1 J-3J in. broad, entire, coriaceous, slightly shining above, dull and paler 

 below, glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 8-14 on each side, 

 arcuate, branched near the margin, slightly elevated below ; veins 

 rather lax, subparallel ; petiole 2^-5 lin. long, blackish when dry, with 

 a wide channel on the upper .side, finely wrinkled, but otherwise 

 glabrous ; stipules fugacious, lanceolate, acute, about 3 lin. long, 

 coriaceous, glabrous. Spikes 2-5 in each fascicle, up to 2J in. long ; 

 axis (rather stout, like the bracts and sepals) fulvous-tomentellous. 

 Flowers all male or rarely one or two pedicellate females towards the 

 base ; bract subtending each Hower solitary, broadly-ovate, subacute, 

 about h lin. long. Male flowers sessile : Sepals ovate, obtuse, about 1 

 lin. long, J lin. broad, coriaceous, tomentellous en both sides. l)isk« 

 glands fleshy,, rounded, shortly pubescent. Filaments about half as 

 long as the sepals, glabrous ; anther-cells distinct, pendulous, free from 

 the filament in the lower half. Rudimentary ovary densely tomentose. 

 Female iiowers : pedicel stout, 3 lin. long (seen only in young fruit), 

 shortly pubescent. Sepals as in the male but larger. Ovary (young 

 fruit) 4-celled, 4-lobed, sparingly pubescent; styles thick, swollen to- 

 wards the apex, papillose outside. Mature fruit not seen. 



Upper Grulnea. Freiuli Guinea: banks of tlie tributaries of the Boivali, 

 Caille, 15057 ! and without precise locality, Caille, 14997 ! 



3. Maesobotrya floribunda, ^e7iM. Add : Mildbr.Wiss. Deutsch. 

 Zentr.-Afr. Exped. ii. 448. 



South Central. Belgian Congo. • Itui i district ; :\r:i\vanibi, J/iWira?(/, 3083 ; 

 Aruwinii ; .I:inil)uj;i, Mildbraed, 3305. 



lU. Msesobotrya Barteri, UntcJiinson. Add after Baccaurea 

 Barterl, Miill. Arg. : Mildbr. Wiss. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. 448. 



Soutb Central. IJtlirian Conpo : Ituri district; near Njinpanda, between 

 Mawauibi and Awakuhi, Mi/d/,raed, 3190 ; Jiafwaitu, Mildbraed, 3221 . 



4. Drypetes Mildbraedii. UutcJdnson. Add to reference of syn. ; 

 Mildbr. Wiss. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. ii. 446. 



15a. Drjrpetes mossambicensis, Hutchinson. A tree 35-45 ft. 

 high; trunk large {Vasse) ; branchlets grey, glabrous, scarred with 

 prominent lenticels. Leaves narrowly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 

 rounded and often emarginute at the apex, obtuse and slightly unequal- 

 sided at the base, 1J-2J in. long, |-ll in. broad, entire, thinly 

 chartaceous, prominently reticulate and glabrous on both surfaces, with 

 about 7 pairs of much-branched lateral nerves ; petiole 2 lin. long, 

 slender, very slightly wrinkled, glabrous; stipules small and deciduous, 

 ovate-lanceolate, tomentose within. Male flowers numerous, in axillary 

 fascicles on the young branchlets ; pedicel up to 2 lin. long, glabrous. 



