6. Trichoscypha cavalliensis Aubrév. & Pellegr.

Bull. Soc. Bot. France 81: 647 (1934); Keay in Hutch. & Dalz., Fl. West Trop. Afr., ed. 2, 1: 736 (1958); Aubréville, Fl. For. Côte d’Ivoire, ed. 2, 2: 200 (1959).

— Type: Chevalier 19834, Côte d’Ivoire, between Taté and Tabou, ♂ fl. Aug. (holo-, P) .

Understory tree up to c. 20 m tall, trunk to ± 20 cm diam. Leaves c. 4-7-jugate; leaflets papery, glabrous or nearly so, apex caudate-acuminate, with glabrous impressed midrib above. Inflorescence lax, (sub)terminal, up to ± 50 cm long with thinly pedicelled, small, glabrous, whitish, male flowers. Female flowers unknown. Fruits glabrous. — Figs. 1G, 9.

HABITAT AND DISTRIBUTION. — Rain forest of Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ghana.

SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — CÔTE D’ IVOIRE: Chevalier 19834, between Taté and Tabou, ♂ fl. Aug. (P, type). — GHANA: Chipp 331, Ankassa, fr. Aug. (K); Enti R 1104, Ankassa F. R., fr. Dec. (WAG); J.B. Hall 2645, Tarkwa, fr. Oct. (K). — LIBERIA: Baldwin 6977, Zeahtown, fl. b. Aug. (K); Cooper 107, Dukwai R., fr. Oct. (BM, K); Leeuwenberg & Voorhoeve 4938, 32 km N of Kakata, ♂ fl. Aug. (K, P, WAG) .