Vol. 1 part 2 - Species Plantarum Programme

CHRYSOBALANACEAE (Hunga)
Subshrub to 1 m tall. Branches glabrous when young. Leaves with stipules lanceolate, 1.5–2 mm
long, glabrous, caducous; petioles 2–3 mm long, terete, eglandular, glabrous; lamina ovatetriangular
to orbicular, thickly coriaceous, 4.5–7.5 × 2.5–5 cm, rounded to obtuse at apex,
subcordate at base, glabrous on both surfaces; midrib prominent on both surfaces; primary
veins 9–15 pairs, prominulous on both surfaces; secondary venation distinctly prominentreticulate
on both surfaces. Inflorescences of branched panicles; rachis and branches
glabrous. Receptacle campanulate, glabrous on exterior, densely tomentose within (seen only
in fruiting specimens). Style lanate pubescent. Fruit when young ovoid, with stipitate base
3–4 mm long; exocarp glabrous; mesocarp thin, 0.5 mm thick; endocarp bony, 0.25 mm
thick, densely tomentose.
NW New Caledonia. 60: NWC. Maquis. Map 253.
60. NEW CALEDONIA: Base W, Mt. Katépahié, H.S.McKee 17561 (BR, K, P, NY); Voh, Tahafé, H.S.McKee
33184 (P, NY).
9. NEOCARYA
Neocarya (DC.) Prance, Bull. Jard. Bot. Belg. 46: 308 (1976). The name comes from Greek:
new nut.
Parinari sect. Neocarya DC., Prodr. 2: 527 (1825); Parinari subg. Neocarya (DC.) Blume, Mélanges Bot. 2:
10 (1855). T: Parinari senegalensis DC. (= Neocarya macrophylla (Sabine) Prance)
Neou Adans. ex Juss., Gen. Pl. 342 (1789), nom. inval., in synon.
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves with stipules small, deltate, caducous; petioles eglandular;
lamina with several small sessile marginal glands especially near base; lower surface of
lamina with small stomatal crypts filled with densely matted hairs. Inflorescence a terminal
raceme of almost sessile cymules, sometimes unbranched, more frequently with 1 or more
short to elongate branches at base. Bracts and bracteoles eglandular, usually enclosing a
single flower, but sometimes also an additional rudimentary bud. Flowers bisexual,
zygomorphic. Receptacle-tube much shorter than the sepals, very asymmetric, saccate,
gibbous, hollow, hairy at the throat, otherwise glabrous inside. Sepals 5, spreading, obovate,
with apex rounded or broadly acute, hairy outside, with inner surface glabrous and
contrasting with the densely ciliolate margin. Petals 5, shorter than the sepals, caducous.
Stamens 12–17; filaments white, slightly longer than the sepals, slightly curved in bud and
during anthesis, slightly expanded at the base; staminodes c. 6, minute, subulate, inserted on
the faucal annulus. Ovary monocarpellary, 2-locular, inserted laterally at the mouth of the
receptacle-tube. Drupe fleshy; epicarp sparsely verrucose; endocarp hard, thick, with a rough
fibrous surface, with 2 basal obturators.
Germination is cryptocotylar; cataphylls absent (A.W.Hill, 1937).
One species in West Africa and eastwards to Sudan.
F.White, Distrib. Pl. African. 10: 326 (1976); G.T.Prance & F.White, The genera of
Chrysobalanaceae, Philos. Trans. B 320: 105–107 (1988).
Neocarya macrophylla (Sabine) Prance, Bull. Jard. Bot. Belg. 46: 308 (1976)
Parinari macrophylla Sabine, Trans. Hort. Soc. London 5: 452 (1824), as Parinarium macrophyllum;
Petrocarya macrophylla (Sabine) Steud., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 309 (1841); Ferolia macrophylla (Sabine)
Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 216 (1891). T: Sierra Leone, G.Don s.n.; holo: K; iso: BM.
Parinari senegalensis Perr. ex DC., Prodr. 2: 257 (1825); Petrocarya senegalensis (Perr. ex DC.) Steud.,
Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 309 (1841). T: Senegal, G.Perrottet 303; holo: P; iso: BR, K, M.
Illustration: G.T.Prance & F.White, Philos. Trans. B 320: 105, 106 (1988).
Map: F.White, Distrib. Pl. African. 10: 326 (1976).
Tree to 10 m tall, usually with rounded bushy crown. Branches tomentose when young,
glabrescent. Leaves with stipules small, to 2 mm long, triangular, early caducous; petiole 1–4 mm
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