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Flowering: bracts without a terminal peltate scale. 
ptacles 
Conceptacles | spherical, Prena -lobes rounded 
or subtruncate acuminata. 
Conceptacles obovoi or ellipsoidal, péitagth- 
lobes lanceolate acut - - - obovoidea. 
ec ascarica N. E. Brown ; arbor ramulis apice puberulis 
` exceptis glabra, foliis breviter petiolatis oblongis apice breviter a eg 
cuspidatis basi late cuneatis vel subrotundatis subobliquis coriaceis mar- 
ginibus vix sinuatis, venis primariis utrinque 8-10, amento florifero 
masculo ellipsoideo vel subgloboso, bracteis usque ad apicem coneretis 
squamis peltatis glabris ciliatis coronatis, Lesher sdb icut oblique 
subtruncato et breviter denticulato, staminibus 
Habitat.— Central Madagascar, Baron 3252. 
Foliorum petioli 1-Y poll. longi ; emine 2-4} poll. longæ, ak -2 poll. 
late. Amentum flori erum $-& poll. longum, 1-3 Lien crassu 
This species has the coriaceous leaves of T. afri cana, but of smaller 
size, and is readily distinguished from that plant by having the flowering 
bracts confluent up to their apex under the peltate scale, which ter- 
mar them; in T. africana they are confluent only for 4—4 their 
ength. 
Treculia affona, N. E. Brown ; arbor glabra, foliis breviter petiolatis 
lanceolatis breviter et obtuse acuminatis pergamentaceis basi cuneatis 
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fructifero magno globoso, bracteis apice squamis peltatis pubesitis 
ciliatis deciduis coronatis, nuculis oblique ovoideis 
Habitat.—Niger Territory, Yoruba, Medison. 
Foliorum aea 1-1 poll. longi; laminæe 24-7} poll. longs; 1-3 poll. 
latze. ec um fructiferum 12 poll diam. Nucule 4-5 lin . longe, 
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Yin a as “the “ Affon-tree,” and the seeds are used for food in 
as poiso to horses donis and een they are, according to 
Millson, the avoit f food of elephan 
Treculia acuminata, Baillon, Adansonia xi., p. 292. 
When Dr. Baillon described this plant he had only seen the male inflor- 
escence, but the Kew specimens have female conceptacles. These, like 
those of the male, are quite globose, and about 1-inch in diameter, "with 
well protruded bifid styles. The bracts at the base of the conceptacles 
are closely appressed to them, elliptic bes puberulous. The floral 
bracts are pubescent and without a peltate scale at their apex, and are 
different in the two sexes: those ot the say conceptacles are confluent 
nearly to the apex, or about 4ths of their length, the very short, free tips 
being all globose or obovoid “clavate; those of the female conceptacles 
are free for half their length, and are of two forms ; some being trigonous, 
orm, acute, the others bei eing very much stouter, clavate, 'and obtuse. 
The somewhat echinulate fruiting receptacle is probably small, since e= 
immature specimen measures only $-inch in diameter, as is noted i 
Bentham and Hooker, Genera Plantarum III., p. 375. 
Habitat.—Gaboon, Mount John, River Kongui, Mann, 1804. 
