1166 BULLETIN DE L'HERBIER B01SSLER (2 m * SÉR.). 1905 (8) 



calami, since Pierre weites immedialely above, « stylo elongato apice 

 minute 5-dentalo. 



Oncoba brevipes Stapf fin Journ. Linn. Soc. Bol. XXXVII, 84), a native 

 of Liberia, is closely allied to 0. glauca, from which il differs in ils 

 obovate, very shorlly acuminate leaves; the hermaphrodite flowers and 

 fruits are at présent unknown. but they may be expected to yield addi- 

 tional characters by which to separate 0. brevipes.. 



It must be noticed in conclusion that Beauvais describes and figures 

 the flowers of bis Ventmatia glauca as red. We can only assume that 

 this is due to faully recollection, coupled witb the fact that the petals 

 turn a reddish colour on drying, since Mann. Holland. Milien and Klaine 

 all describe the flowers as white. 



According to Holland, the fruit of Oncoba glauca is edible. 



ONCOBA GLAUCA Planen, in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. VI 

 (1847) 296. Frutex (fide Holland) vel arbor 6—13 m. alla (fide Milien, 

 Mann et Soyaux). Pelioli 1,5—7 cm. longi. Lamina ovato-oblonga vel lan- 

 ceolata, apice longiuscule obtusiuscule acuminata, basi rotundata vel 

 obtuse euneala, 8 — 21 cm. longa, 2,5—8 cm. lata, venis lateralibus 

 utrinque 7. Rami florentes foliati. Racemi axillares breviter peduneulati, 

 1— 3-flori. rhachide 4—13 mm. longo. Pedicelli 3—7 cm. longi. Sepala 

 anlhesi deeidua. Petala 12—15, alba (exsiccando rubescentia), 3—4 cm. 

 longa, 1 — 2 cm. lata. Antherae 3,5 — 5 mm. longse. Ovarium circa 1 mm. 

 slipitatum, ovoideum, 5—7 mm. longum. apiculo 2 — 2,5 mm. longo, 

 supra apiculum cum stylo articulalum; Stylus 9 — 10 mm. longus, apice 

 minute 5-dentatus. Fructus ovoideus vel globoso-ovoideus. brevissime 

 acuminatus, 4—5 cm. longus. — Hook. fil. Fl. Nigrit. 220; Oliv. Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. I, 117, partim (slirpe Barteriano excluso). Oncoba Klainei, Pierre in 

 Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. n. s. I. 118. Ventenatia glauca, Beauv. FI. Oware, 

 29, t. XVII. 



Lagos : on road lo Ajilite, Milien, 159. 



Southern Nigeria : Insofan, Holland. 210, 247; without précise 

 localily, //. H. J ohmton. 



Fernando Po : Clarence, Vogel, 115; without précise localily, Vogel, 

 224, Mann, 258. 



Cameroons : Ambas Bay, Mann, XVIII; Yaûndé-Station, Zenker and 

 Staudt, 170; Lolodorf, Staudt, 398; Bipinde, Zenker, 1238, 1273, 2324. 



Gaboon : Sibange farm, Munda. Soyaux. 78; Libreville, Klaine, 109, 

 221. 



