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fascicled small green and red tl. .WITS and ovoid pendulous fruits 

 borne on the lengthened ribbon-like blood-red pedicels, up to 



2\ in. by \ in. ; Kakatown, \\'hylc\ 



ARISTOLOCHIACE I 



Aristolochia sp. (from drawing by Sir If. II. Johnston and reported 

 by Mr. John Gow). (For Illustration, vide p. 539.) 



PI PER ACE.*; 



Heckeria subpeltata, Knntli. : a climber with long-petioled deeply 

 cordate leaves, J ft. by f I ft, and shortly peduncled umbels 

 of 4 7 spikes, 4 in. by in. ; Sino Basin, Whvte \ This is 

 considered by some botanists as identical with the South 

 American Heckeria umbellata, Kunth., which possesses an aromatic 

 root (Radix periparobo or cupeba of commerce) and eatable 

 berries from which an oil similar to anis oil is prepared. 



MYRISTICACE^E 



*Pycnanthus dinklagei, Warb. : a dioecious tree, 30 ft. high, with 

 drooping branches, elliptic leaves, short axillary moderately 

 divided rusty downy panicles of very small heads of minute 

 male flowers (female flowers and fruits unknown) ; on laterite 

 in the hinterland of Grand Basa, Dtnklage, 1624! The seeds 

 of an allied species, P. kombo, Warb. (syn. Myristica kombo, Baill., 

 M. microcephaly Benth.) are said to contain as much as 73 per 

 cent, of fat, and to burn like a candle. They have occasionally 

 been imported into Europe as " African oil seeds." 



LAURACE^; 



*Afrodaphne caudata, Stapf (Plate 263): a tree (?) with oblong long- 

 acuminate glabrous coriaceous leaves up to 9 in. long and loose 

 finely downy panicles (to 8 in. long) of inconspicuous turbinate 

 flowers, J in. long ; Sino Basin, Whyte \ 



*A. euryneura, Stapf \ a tree (?) similar to the preceding species, but 

 with shortly accuminate or aristulate leaves and smaller flowers 

 T V in. long; Sino Basin, Whyte\ 



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