306 F- Pax. — Euphorbiaceae-Phyllanthoideae-Phyllantheae-Uapacinae. 



angulo semirecto insidentes. Pedunculus q 1 % i / 2 — 6 cm longus, glaber, validus; in- 

 florescentiae magnae, absque bracteis 1 5 mm latae ; bracteae involucräles 2 mm longae, 

 1 2 mm latae, obovatae, obtusae, glabrae. Calyx q? irregulariter fissus, ciliatus, intus 

 velutinus; ovarii rudimentum glabrum; stamina calycem triplo superantia. Flores Q 

 et fructus ignoti. 



Westafrikanische Waldprovinz: Belgisch Kongo, Wälder bei Bumba 

 (Pynaert n. 117). 



15. U. nymphaeantha Pax et K. Hoffm. n. spec. — Arbor 10 — 15 m alta; 

 ramuli validi, glabri. Petiolus 4 — 6 cm longus, apice tumidus, glaber, supra planus; 

 limbus 19 — 2 4 cm longus, S l / 2 — 1 1 cm latus, elongatus, obovato-spathulatus, rotundato- 

 obtusus vel leviter retusus, basin versus longe attenuatus, ima basi in petiolum spurium 

 1 — 2^2 cm longum contractus, margine leviter undulato-repandus, coriaceus, glaber; 

 costae secundariae utrinque 9, leviter prominentes, angulo semirecto insidentes; nervi 

 tertiarii vix prominuli; stipulae non visae. Pedunculi q? 6 — 8 cm longi, glabri; in- 

 florescentiae pro genere maximae, absque bracteis 2 cm latae, viridi-luteae vel citrinae; 

 bracteae ad 2V2 cm longae, obovatae, obtusae, rigidae, sed haud coriaceae, glabrae. 

 Calyx tf cupularis, truncatus, irregulariter fissus, extus * pilosus; filamenta calycem 

 quater superantia; ovarii rudimentum cylindricum, apice dilatatum, albo-pilosum. Flores 

 Q ignoti. 



Westafrikanische Waldprovinz: Kamerun, Lomie, Urwald, auf lehmig- 

 sandigem Boden (Schlosser n. 33!). 



Einheim. Name: Buli assam. 



Nota. Valde affinis U. Pynaertii, cujus limbus non in petiolum spurium angustalus est; 

 insuper costae secundariae U. nymphaeanthae pauciores, inflorescentiae paulo majores et ovarii 

 rudimentum pilosum, nee glabrum. 



16. U. guineensis (Don) Müll. Arg. in Flora XLVII. (186 4) 517, in DC. Prodr. XV. 

 2. (1866) 490; Benth. in Hook. Icon. pl. XIII. (1877) t. 1287; Pax in Engler's Bot, Jahrb. 

 XXXIV. (1904) 371; Hutchinson in Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. 1. (1912) 640, 1045 ex parte. 

 -* V. Mole Pax in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XIX. (18 94) 79; Th. et H. Durand, Syll. Fl. 

 Gong. (1910) 485. — U. Laurentii De Wildem. Et. Fl. Bas- et Moy. Congo II. (1908) 

 272, t. 69; Hutchinson in Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. 1. (1912) 642; Th. et H. Durand, Syll. 

 Fl. Cong. (1910) 485. — U. bingervillensis Beule in Bull. Soc. Bot. France LV. Mem. 

 8. (1908) 66. — U. Perrotii Beule in Bull. Soc. Bot. France LV. Mem. 8. (1908) 67. 

 — Antidesma guineense Don in Sched. ex Hook. Niger Fl. (18 49) 515. — Uapaca 

 gabonensis Pierre in Sched. — Arbor 10 — 25 m alta; ramuli modice validi, valde 

 juveniles tantum puberuli, mox glabrati. Petiolus 1 y 2 — 7 cm longus, rarius ad 1 3 cm 

 attingens, glaber, apice tumidus; limbus 10 — 27 cm longus, 4^2 — H cm latus, interdum 

 ad 35 cm longitudine attingens, obovatus vel oblongo-obovatus, rotundato-obtusus, rarius 

 breviter et obtuse acutatus, basi euneato-angustatus, subcoriaceus, glaber, margine non- 

 nunquam undulatus, opacus; costae secundariae utrinque 6 — 11, subtus prominentes, 

 angulo semirecto insidentes ; nervi tertiarii subtus subdistineti. Pedunculi q? \ V2 — 

 3 cm longi, glabri, ad apicem ramulorum congesti; bracteae coriaceae, crassae, 7 — 

 10 mm longae, 4^ mm latae, oblongae vel suborbiculares, crenulatae vel denticulatae, 

 saepe subeiliatae, papillosae, luteae; capitulum florum inter bracteas sessile. Calyx (j* 

 breviter lobatus, demum fissus, extus pilosus; ovarii rudimentum pilosum, apice paulo 

 dilatatum. Pedunculi 2 8 — 15 mm longi, quam q^ crassiores; bracteae ut in in- 

 florescentiis tf. Calyx Q breviter cupularis, margine longe albo-pilosus; ovarium 

 glabrum, 3-loculare. Fructus ovoideus vel subglobosus, circ. 2V2 cm diametiens, 

 glaber. 



Westafrikanisches Waldgebiet, von Sierra Leone bis Gabun verbreitet, 

 aber auch in das Innere bis zum Seengebiet vordringend; im Küstenwald, 

 ( i all erie wald, Urwald, gern auf feuchtem Untergrund und dann Stelzwurzeln bildend. — 

 Sierra Leone (Afzelius!, Scott Elliot n. 4621 !); Franz. Guinea (Caillc n. 11790); 



