170 xli. sapindace^e. [Aphonia 



forests a little tree of 6 to 12 ft. ; branches erect-patent, flexuous, 

 terete, glabrate, leafy ; leaves alternate, paii-pinnate, coriaceous, 

 glossy, glabrate, 6 to 12 in. long, 1-4- jugate; common petiole 1 to 

 3 in. long ; petiolules ^ to } in. long ; leaflets narrowly elliptical, 

 2 to 6 by f- to 1| in., deciduous at the time of flowering; flowers 

 •dioecious, arranged on the branches in lateral simple or occasionally 

 branched spikes of f to 2| in., whitish, a little yellowish, £ to 

 i in. long. In the male flowers calyx-segments 4, valvate, tawny- 

 tomentellous outside; petals 4 (the place of the fifth vacant), 

 spathulate-obovate, each with two cleft appendages above the 

 claw, glabrous except the subciliate sides, rather longer than 

 the sepals; stamens 8 or 9, glabrous, subequal, exserted; disk 

 unilateral, short, fleshy, glabrous ; style bifid at the apex or un- 

 divided or wanting, glabrous, shorter than the filaments ; ovary 0. 

 In the female flowers staminodes 9 or 10, shorter than the 

 stamens in the male flowers ; ovary 3-lobed, 3-celled ; ovules 

 solitary; fruit carpels 3 or fewer, unequal, somewhat hairy, the 

 largest ovoid, somewhat compressed, | in. long, velvety -scarlet, 

 edible, delicious. 



Golungo Alto. — In bushy woods on the right-hand side of the 

 Ambaca road, fl. Feb. 1856 ; Queta, fr. middle of Nov. 1855. No. 4516. 

 Queta, Ambaca road ; male fl. Oct. 1855. No. 6681. Without fl. or fr. 

 No. 66816. 



6. CHYTRANTHUS Hook, f . in Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. PL i. p. 403. 



1. C. Mannii Hook, f., I.e., p. 404; Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. i. p. 430; Ficalho, PL Uteis p. 123 (1884). 



Golungo Alto. — An erect tree, dioecious or polygamous, with a 

 palm-like habit ; leaves alternate, pinnate, large ; flowers thyrsoid, in 

 racemes spreading from the trunk near its base ; calyx petals and 

 filaments, as well as the petiole and the rachis of the whole inflores- 

 cence, beset with white more or less dense rather rigid pilose hairs, in 

 the living state all these parts brilliantly rose-scarlet ; calyx campanu- 

 late, somewhat gibbous, 5-cleft ; petals inserted at the external base of 

 the unilateral reniform disk, unguiculate ; claw furnished at the apex 

 with a bifid hairy ligule ; stamens usually 7, the 5 shorter ones inserted 

 between the disk and the rudimentary ovary, the 2 taller ones at the 

 opposite margin of the ovary, the 2 taller ones exserted, the others 

 subexserted ; filaments pilose ; anthers elliptical or more or less ovoid- 

 elliptical, inserted at the emarginate base, 2-celled, longitudinally 

 dehiscing ; ovary rudimentary, hemispherical, sessile, composed of very 

 dense rigid red hairs. Abundant in primitive forests at 2000 to 2300 

 ft. alt., near Sange, at Capopa ; male fl. August 1855. No. 1690. 



Prince's Island. — A tree attaining 14 ft., but usually only 8 or 9 ft.; 

 racemes simple or frequently paniculate, springing from the trunk a 

 little above its base, nodding on all sides as well as the flowers clothed 

 with rose-sanguineous or nearly scarlet velvety indumentum. Colonial 

 name "Pecego" (peach). In wooded places, at elevation of 300 

 to 400 ft., in plantations of Theobroma Cacao L.; fl. Sept. 1853. 

 No. 1689. 



Island op St. Thomas.— A tree, 10 to 15 ft. high ; called " Peceg- 

 neiro " (peach-tree); in mountainous places, Monte Caffe' ; fl. Dec. 1860. 

 No. 1688. 



