Paivceitsa] cxv. EfPnoRBiACEiE. 963 



9. PAIViEUSA Wehv. ex Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. i>. 993 



(1SG7), and in Trans. Liiui. Soc. xxvii. p. 20. 



1. P. dactylophylla Wehv. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 328 

 (18G.S), and in Tran.s. Linn. Soc. xxvii. p. 21, t. 7 (1869). 



Hrii.LA. — A resinous tree, 8 to 15 ft. high, not or scarcely milky ; 

 trunk erect, straight, 2 to in. in diameter at the base branches and 

 branchlets somewhat tortuous, very rigid, patent, tuborculate and 

 transversely very rough with the scars of fallen leaves ; leaves 

 deciduous, alternate, digitately 5- to 7-foliolate, apparently exstipulate ; 

 leaflets articulated to the common petiole, coriaceous, shining, tomen- 

 tose beneath ; common petiole long ; flowers dioecious : male flowers 

 usually appearing in the absence of the leaves ; female flowers solitary 

 in the axils of the leaves at the ends of the congested branchlets, very 

 shortly pedunculate ; peduncle included in an adnate sheath which is 

 tridentate at the apex down to the middle; calyx G- or 7- cleft, with 

 linear-subulate tomentose teeth ; disk annular ; ovary sessile, sur- 

 rounded at the base by the calyx-teeth, bilocular ; the cells bi-ovulate ; 

 the ovules pendulous geminately from the apex of the cell, anatropous ; 

 style simple, very short or obsolete ; stigma broadly biloljed ; the 

 lobes thick, stigmatose at the inner face ; epicarp bivalved ; pyrenes 

 long, enclosed in a somewhat fleshy mucous meml)rane ; seeds exal- 

 buminous ; testa (unripe) somewhat fleshy. In rather dry spots in the 

 less dense forests between Lopollo and the river ]Mouino, sparingly, in 

 company with Combretace:e, Myrtacea), and Proteacea; ; male and 

 female fl. and fr. towards the end of Feb. 18G0. The specimens with 

 male flowers were plucked in great haste, for the tree on which they 

 grew was within the range of the storming hordes of the Munanos 

 savages with whom war was being waged. No. 452, Coll. Caiu'. 955. 



10. OLDFIELDIA Benth. & Hook. ; B. & H. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 281. 

 1. 0. africana Benth. & Hook, in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. p. 185, 



t. G (1850). 



SiERKA Leone, — A tall extensive tree, with the habit entirely of a 

 Vitex, apetalous, dioecious ; wood excellent, whitish ; leaflets quite 

 glabrous, coriaceous, much acuminate ; stamens 2 to 7 ; filaments 

 straight, unequal in length ; anthers basifixed, rotundate-ellipsoidal, 

 bilocular ; the cells opposite, longitudinally dehiscent. In woods on 

 the north side of the colony, where it forms vast forests and whence 

 it is exported in large quantities under the name of "African Teak" 

 for ship-building ; male fl. Sept. 1853. No. 478. 



11. UAPACA Baill. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 282. 



1. U. benguelensis Muell. arg. in Journ, Bot. ii. p. 332 (Nov, 

 1864), and in DC, I.e., p. 491 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 249 (1884) 

 ( U. henguellensis). 



Hi' ILEA. — A handsome tree, usually 15 to 20 sometimes 25 to 30 ft. 

 high or even more, with the habit of Mainhoria stipnlis" (Welw. herb, 

 no. 3027) or of A nthor/risOi m<irr(inth<i Gilg.' (Welw. herb. no. G021), 

 evergreen, not milky, flowering when only 8 ft. high; trunk 1 to U ft. 

 in diameter at the base ; branches spreading, whitish, as well as the 

 branchlets marked with scars and longitudinal cracks ; leaves crowded 

 at the tips of the branchlets, obovate, dryly coriaceous, hard, glossy 

 above, greenish-yellowish beneath, persistent : petiole short, furnished 

 on each side with a long linear quickly deciduous stipule ; flowers 

 apetalous, clustered in bundles on the leafless parts of the branchlets ; 



