A. B. RENDLE: APETALE. 209 
1:5 mm. diam. Cataphyla 15 mm. long. Bacca vix 
7 mm. diam. 
The branches are very brittle, separating into internodal 
segments at a touch when dry. 
A member of the section Aspiduxia near V. Schimperi, Engl., 
an Abyssinian species, from which it differs in the darker, more 
densely and less regularly branched shoots and the globose 
berry. Also evidently closely allied to the more southern 
species V. Goetzei, Engl, from the Kinga Mountains (in the 
extreme south of German Esst Africa), which grows at about 
7000 feet elevation parasitic on a species of Loranthus. l have 
not seen a specimen of this; the berry is smaller and deseribed 
as ovoid. 
SANTALACEJE, 
Osy nis ABYSSINICUS, Hochst. in Flora, xxiv. (1841), Intelligenzbl. 
i. 22. 
Ruchigga. Fl. November, 447. 
Distrib. East and West Tropical Africa. 
BALANOPHOREÆ. 
THONNINGIA SANGUINEA, Vahl, in Dansk. Selsk. Skrivt. vi. (1810) 
125, t. 6. 
Lake-shore, Musozi, in thick shade. Fl. February, 157. 
Distrib. Upper Guinea; Ruwenzori. 
EUPHORBIACE®. 
EvruonziA ($ Euphorbium) MvrEkw x, sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbor glabra, ramis foliiferis crassis: foliis 
alternis, siccis caducis, sessilibus, lineari-lanceolatis, apice 
breviter aristulatis, nervo mediano lato, utrinque pro- 
minente ; inflorescentia dichotome ramosa, ramis articu- 
latis, bracteis late ovatis vel orbiculari-ovatis, apice 
aristatis, cyathiis minute pubescentibus, lobis rotundatis, 
fimbriatis, glandulis 4, carnosis, glabris, flabellatis, margine 
superiore crenatis, dorso longius pectinatis, processibus 
apice in ramis glanduligeris desinentibus ; bracteis 
floralibus basi angustis, sub medium in ramis filiformibus 
pilosis desinentibus ; ovario glabro, stylo cum ramis veluti 
antheris sparse et minute pubescente. 
