610 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEX (HUTCHINSON). [Buaus. 
upper axils, each sex supported by a pedicel] about 1 lin. long, the latter 
covered by small overlapping triangular bracts. Male flowers: Perianth- 
segments 4, broadly ovate-triangular, slightly keeled on the back, about 
4 lin. long, glabrous, membranous towards the margin. Stamens 4; 
anthers sessile, acute, nearly 2 lin. long, 4 lin. broad across the back. 
Rudimentary ovary absent. Female flowers: Perianth-segments as in the 
male. Ovary glabrous; styles 3, spreading, bifid, suleate and stigmatose 
on the inner face, 13 lin. long, glabrous. Capsule and seeds not known. 
Mozamb. Distr. Nyasaland: Shire Highlands; Mlanji, Scott-Elliot, 8603 
(in Berlin Herbarium) ! 
3. B. Hildebrandtii, Baill. Adansonia, xi. 268. <A tree about 20 ft. 
high, much branched, glabrous in all its parts (excepting the bracts and 
perianth-segments) ; branchlets pale green, angular or slightly ridged. 
Leaves obovate or oblanceolate, rounded and very slightly mucronate or 
often emarginate at the apex, gradually narrowed to an acute base, ]-2}in. 
long, 4-1 in. broad, coriaceous, with recurved margins, more or less 
glaucous and dull when dry, finely punctate on both surfaces ; lateral 
nerves numerous, forming an intramarginal nerve about $ lin. from 
the margin, indistinct below, fairly conspicuous but only slightly raised 
above; petiole very short. Male flowers in axillary, very shortly pedun- 
culate or subsessile clusters, each cluster with a terminal solitary female ; 
peduncle up to 3 lin. long; bracts opposite, lanceolate, coriaceous, boat- 
shaped, 1 lin. long, minutely puberulous on the margin. Perianth- 
segments 4, ovate-triangular or ovate-oblong, strongly keeled on the back, 
coriaceous, becoming thinner at the margin, fluffy-pubescent within the 
apex and on the margin, 1} lin. long, }lin. broad. Stamens 4; filaments 
flesby, 1} lin. long. glabrous; anthers recurved, ? lin. long. Rudi- 
mentary ovary subglobose, coarsely wrinkled, about 3 lin. in diam., very 
slightly pubescent. Perianth-segments of the female flower much broader 
than those of the male, strongly imbricate. Capsule ovoid, 5-6 lin. 
long, about 3} lin. in diam. ; styles 3, persistent, ovate-triangular, nearly 
1} lin. long, slightly spreading and recurved. Seeds (immature) ellip- 
soid, about 24 lin. long, brown and shining.—B. calophylla, Pax 1» 
Engl. Jahrb. xxxix. 632. Buaanthus Hildebrandtii, Van Tiegh. 1» 
Ann. Sci. Nat. 8me sér. v. 326. i 
Nile Land. Harar: Diredana, Rosen! Somaliland: Abl Mountains, Hilde- 
brandt, 8911 Maid, Hildebrandt, 1547! Golis Range, Mrs. Lort Phillips! Drake- 
Brockman, 289! 
9. NOTOBUXUS, Oliv. in Hook. Ic. PI. xiv. 78. 
Flowers monecious. Disk 0. Male flower : Perianth-segments #y 
in opposite pairs, obovate, boat-shaped. Stamens 6, in two serles, pe 
outer of 2, each opposite an outer segment, the inner series of 4, eac : 
2 opposite an inner segment; anthers sessile, ovoid, dehiscing wae 
dinally. Rudimentary ovary absent. Female flower : Perianth-segme». 
4. Ovary 3-celled; styles 3, divergent, stigmatose inside ; ovules nie 
each cell, pendulous. Fruit capsular, dehiscing loculicidally ; v® 
