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Torus crassus, fere hemisphsericus, sub carpellis tameu planus v. leviter excavatus. 
Stamina numerosissima angusta, connectivo apice capitulo parvo appendiculato. 
Carpella numerosa, glabra, ovulis 12-15 biseriatis, stylis oblongo-clavatis ovario ipso 
paullo brevioribus. Fructus non visus. 
Ambas Bay and Fernando Po (G. Mann). 
Some large, ovoid, thick glabrous carpels, full 4 inches long, containing each three or 
four seeds, separately gathered by Mr. Mann, may possibly belong to this species. 
5. U. ? fusca, sp. n. ; foliis amplis elongato-oblongis acuminatis infra medium angustatis 
glabris, petiolo brevissimo, floribus subsessilibus bracteis imbricatis sepalisque ferru- 
gineo-sericeis, petalis latis concavis leviter imbricatis subvalvatisque, antheris apice 
truncatis, carpellis villosis. — Arbor 25-pedalis. Folia iis 77. conniventis simillima, 
fere pedalia. Flores gemini, subglobosi, pollicem diametro. Bracteae plures, arete 
imbricatse, interiores sepalis paullo minores, exteriores parvse. Sepala lata, basi 
breviter connata. Petala iis 77. connwentis subsimilia sed minus crassa et vix 
imbricata. Stamina ultra 2000, arctissime conferta. Carpella fere 100, villosa, 3-4- 
ovulata, stigmate crasso brevi truncato, post anthesin jam paullo aucta sessilia, 
falcato-oblonga. 
Fernando Po (G. Mann). 
The flowers of our specimen are scarcely sufficient to determine the affinities with 
precision ; but I believe it to be a Uvaria, near the last. Mr. Mann describes the 
flowers as brown. 
Doubtful Species. 
77. ovata, DC. 
77. ovata, Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. PI. Guin. 255. 
U. cylindrica, Schum. et Thonn. I. c. 256. 
I am unable to identify either of the above three species amongst our specimens. 7/. 
cylindrica, with narrow lanceolate petals, may perhaps be a JJnona. 
77. ? gracilis, Hook. f. Fl. Nig. 210. We have no specimen ; but from the description 
it is possibly a Clathrospermum. 
77. ? sp. with rather large sessile flowers, more imbricate, and without the bracts of 7/. 
fusca, and shorter leaves, nearer those of 77. Chamce. Fernando Po (G. Mann). A single 
specimen with one imperfect flower. 
77. ? sp., named Kookaree in Sierra Leone. Fruits and one leaf only in the K.ew 
Museum. Not unlike 77. Chamce ; but the carpels are more villous, shorter and thicker, 
on lonsrer stalks. 
2. Artabotrys, B. Br. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. 24. 
This is chiefly an Asiatic genus, represented in Africa by two species, having both o 
them the climbing habit and remarkable hooked peduncles of the Asiatic ones ; and 
one of them, the W. African A. macrophylla, has the same petals, thick, concave, and 
closely connivent at t he base, with more or less spreading oblong or narrow laminae ; 
