96 CVIII, PHYTOLACCACEH (BAKER AND wricut).  [Mohlana. 
Millen, 92! Roland, 36! Otto, Millen, 20! Ikoradu, Schlechter, 13002! Oloke 
Meji, Foster, 283! Abeokuta, Irving, 73! Angiama, Barter, 196. Cameroons : 
Ambas Bay, Mann, 775! and without precise locality, Preuss, 1160! 1344! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; banks of the River Cuango, about 
Sange, Welwitsch, 2440! at the cataracts of the River Cuango and by streams in 
Mata de Quibanga, Welwitsch, 24408 ! 
Nile Land. Niamniam, Schweinfurth, 3064! Uganda: east side of Lake 
Albert Edward, Scott-Elliot, 8070! Kampala, Scott-Elliot, 7368! Brown, 47! 
Buddu, Scott-Elliot, 7517! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Tanga; Lutindi, Holst, 3416! 
Also in tropical America, Madagascar, and naturalised in Ceylon. 
2. MICROTEA, Sw.; Benth. et Hook, f. Gen. Pl. iii. 82. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth 5-partite; segments equal or 
nearly so, usually erect in fruit. Stamens 3-8, hypogynous ; filaments 
free, filiform; anthers subglobose, 2-celled. Ovary 1-celled; styles 
2-5, free or united at the base, papillose above. Fruit obovoid, more 
or less warted or spiny, seated on the persistent perianth. Seed ver- 
tical; embryo peripheral, surrounding the central farinaceous albumen. 
—Annual, usually branched, herbs. Leaves alternate, quite entire. 
Flowers small, white, in long slender spikes or racemes; bracts mem- 
branous, persistent. 
Species about 10, chiefly in tropical South America; 3 in South Africa, 1 of 
which extends into the tropics. 
1. M. tenuissima, JV. £. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1909, nied. An 
annual herb, 4-16 in. high, with the appearance of Reseda. Leaves 
linear, up to 1 in. long and 4 lin. wide, mucronate, brittle when dry, 
glabrous. Flowers in spikes up to 7 in. long; bracteoles 2-3 under each 
flower, about as long asthe perianth. Perianth 5-partite, 1 lin. in diam.; 
segments subregular, obovate, finely I-nerved. Stamens 3-4; filaments 
longer than the perianth ; anthers subglobose, dorsifixed. Ovary ovoid, 
warted, } lin. high; styles 2-4; ovule campylotropous on a basal 
funicle. Fruit obovoid, 1 lin. long, mucronate.—Lophiocarpus tenwis- 
simus, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Pl. xv. 50, t. 1463, figs. 10-11. 
Lower Guinea. (erman South-west Africa: Amboland; Omupanda, Wulf- 
horst, 33! Oshando, Schinz, 900! 
Mozamb. Dist. Ngamiland: Okavango Valley, 3000 ft., Lugard, 277! 
Also in South Africa. 
3. PHYTOLACCA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 84. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or diccious. Perianth green or slightly 
coloured, 5-partite; segments equal, oblong, obtuse, spreading OF 
reflexing at a late stage. Stamens 5-25, inserted at the base of the 
perianth, rudimentary in the female flowers; filaments subulate, some 
