Thaumatococcus.] cxxxiv. scitamine^ (baker). 321 



1. T. Danielliy Benth. Gen. Plant, iii. G52. Whole plant 5-10 ft. 

 high. Rhizome wide-creeping. Leaves 2-3 to a tuft ; petiole very- 

 long, stiffly erect, grooved down the face ; blade broadly oblong, mode- 

 rately firm, glabrous, 1-1 J ft. long, rounded at the base. Spike nearly 

 sessile, simple or forked, o-4 in. long ; bracts oblong-navicular, deci- 

 duous, about 1 in. long ; internodes very short. Flowers pale purple, 

 as long as the bract; sepals J in. long. Fruit acutely trigonous, 

 bright crimson, above 1 in. diam. — Phrynium Daniellii, Bennett in 

 Pharm. Journ. xiv. 161, with figure. Monostiche Danielli, Horan. 

 Prodr. Scit. 13, t. 3. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Johnston ! Ashanti ; Assin-Yan-Coomassie, 

 Cummins, 135! Lower Niger: Onitsa, Barter, 1546! Cameroons : Ambas Bay, 

 Mann, 2145 ! Efulen, Bates, 396 ! 



Xiower Guinea. Princes Island, Barter, 19901 Mann, 1153! Island of St. 

 Thomas : near Trindade, Moller ! Quijitas ! 



10. PHRYNIUM, Willd. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 052. 



Sepals 3, oblong or lanceolate, free or adnate at the base to the 

 corolla-tube. Corolla-tube cylindrical, longer or shorter than the calyx; 

 lobes oblong. Staminodia united in a tube at the base ; lip broad, 

 transversely crested inside; staminiferous lobe linear, with the 1 -celled 

 anther adnate to one side. Ovary 3-celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; style adnate 

 at the base to the staminal tube, hooked at the apex ; stigma thickened, 

 2-valved. Fruit globose ; pericarp usually thick and indehiscent. 

 Seeds 1-3, ovoid or oblong, with a short reflexed aril and horseshoe- 

 shaped embryo. — Petiole long, subradical ; blade usually oblong. Inflo- 

 rescence produced from the side of the petiole, capitate, spicate or 

 panicled; bracts usually enclosing a pair of small inconspicuous 

 flowers. — Phyllodes, Lour. ; Schumann in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 440. 



Species 30, the others Tropical Asiatic. 



Acanlescent. Leaf long-petioled. 

 Spike simple. 



Sepals i in. long 1. P. holostachyum. 



Sepals ^ in. long 2. P. coriscense. 



Spikes 1-3 . . . . . . . . 3. P. hrachystachyum. 



Spikes panieled. 



Flowers comparatively large. 



Apical callus of petiole 1-1| in. long . . . 4. P. Hensii. 



Apical callus of petiole 2-3 in. long. 

 Capsule i— I in. diam. 



Branches of panicle velvety . . . 5. P. velntinum. 



Branches of panicle glahrous. 



Bracts ovate Q. P. macrophi/llum. 



Bracts oblong. 



Bracts ^ in. long . . . 7. P. Benthami. 

 Bracts f in. long . . . . 8. P. admocarpxim. 

 Capsule 1 in. diam 9. P oxi/carpum. 



