Notobuaus. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEA (HUTCHINSON). 611 
2-horned. Seeds oblong, keeled, black and shining.—Small trees or 
shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire, chartaceous, shortly petiolate, penni- 
nerved. Flowers subfasciculate or shortly cymose, the female solitary 
and sessile or subsessile in the middle, surrounded by a few pedicellate 
or subsessile males. 
Species 2, the following and another from Natal. 
1. N. acuminata, Hutchinson. A shrub or small tree, glabrous in 
all its parts ; branches longitudinally suleate or wrinkled, bright green ; 
internodes 3-1} in. long. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate or slightly obovate- 
elliptic, long and gradually acuminate to a subacute apex, cuneate at 
the base, 23-4 in. long, 1-13 in. broad, entire, subchartaceous, bright 
green ; lateral nerves 5-7 on each side, looped and branched well within 
the margin, distinct and slightly prominent on both surfaces; petiole 
1-2 lin. long. Cymes axillary, few-flowered. Male flowers on pedicels 
up to 5 lin. long. Perianth-segments 4, 1-1} lin. long, ? lin. broad. 
Anthers ovoid, dehiscing longitudinally. Female flowers subsessile: 
Perianth-segments 4. Ovary 3-celled. Capsule ovoid, about 5 lin. long 
and 23 lin. in diam. Seeds triquetrous, convex on the back, black, 
smooth and shining.—Macropodandra acuminata, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. 
XXviil. 114, 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Ituri region; forest near Wabadso, 
Stuhlmann, 2647 ! 
Allied to Notobuxus natalensis, Oliv., from which it differs in the long-acuminate 
leaves and the longer pedicels of the male flowers. 
10. BRIDELIA, Willd.; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 267. 
Flowers monccious or rarely dicecious, dichlamydeous. Male 
flowers: Sepals 5, valvate. Petals 5, small, scale-like, clawed and spathu- 
late, the limb often toothed. Disk entire or sinuately lobed. Stamens 
» ; filaments connate in their lower part into a column in the centre of 
the flower, their upper part free and spreading; anther-cells parallel, 
dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary inserted at the apex of 
the staminal column, entire or divided. Female flowers: Sepals often 
narrower than those of the male. Disk double, the outer part annular, 
the inner often cupular and embracing the ovary. Ovary 2- (rarely 3-) 
celled ; styles distinct or shortly connate at the base, bilobed or sub- 
entire; ovules 2 in each cell. Berry or drupe small, indehiscent ; 
®xocarp fleshy or pulpy; endocarp crustaceous and hardened into 2 (or 
by abortion 1) pyrenes. Seeds often solitary in each pyrene; albumen 
Usually fleshy, deeply excavated on the inner face ; cotyledons broad and 
thin.— Shrubs or trees. -Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire; secondary 
nerves pinnate, the tertiary mostly parallel and prominent. Flowers 
Small, glomerate in the leaf-axils, rarely in spicate clusters, the males 
humerous and subsessile, the females fewer or solitary, sometimes 
distinetly pedicellate ; bracts small, scaly. Berries or drupes ovoid or 
globose, small, smooth. 
