Bridelia.] CXXII. EUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON). 617 
9. B. cathartica, Bertol. f. [llustr. Mozambiq. 16, n. 13, t.6. A 
shrub about 6 ft. high; branchlets slender, glabrous or slightly pubes- 
cent ; internodes very short. Leaves elliptic, oblong-elliptic or narrowly 
obovate, rounded or very obtusely pointed, rounded or obtuse at the base, 
1-3} in. long, }-2 in. broad, papery, glabrous on both surfaces or puberu- 
lous below, more or less glaucous beneath; lateral nerves looped before 
reaching the margin, 5-10 on each side ; tertiary nerves reticulate, faint ; 
petiole 1-2 lin. long, wrinkled, glabrous or pubescent ; stipules lanceo- 
late or linear-lanceolate, acute, 1-1} lin. long, sparingly pubescent. 
Bracts pubescent. Male flowers: Sepals ovate, subacute, glabrous. 
Petals suborbicular or obovate, entire or slightly toothed. Disk thin. 
Rudimentary ovary deeply bifid. Female flowers: Sepals triangular, 
subacute, glabrous. Petals large, suborbicular or obovate, shortly 
clawed, entire. Disk enclosing the ovary, toothed, glabrous outside. 
Ovary ovoid, glabrous; styles very short, bilobed. Fruits 2-celled, 
ellipsoid, 42 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, black when dry.—Miill. Arg. in 
DC. Prodr, xv. ii. 502; Paxin Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 237 ; S. Moore in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. x]. 191. B. melanthesoides, K\otzsch in Peters, Reise 
Mozamb. Bot. 103. Pentameria mélanthesoides, Klotzsch ex Bail]. Etud. 
Kuph. 584, 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Rovuma Bay, Kirk! Portuguese 
East Africa: Beira Beach, Swynnerton, 538. Mozambique, Peters! Lower Zainbesi ; 
Shupanga, Kirk! opposite Sena, Kirk! Boruma, Menyharth, 567! 876! 
Inhambane, Fornasinio. British Central Africa: Rhodesia; near Victoria Falls, 
Rogers, 5071 ! Kandahar Island, Galpin, 7015! Livingstone, Rogers, 7181 ! 
Oceurs also in the ‘Transvaal. 
10. B. atroviridis, Will. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 327, A small 
tree about 10 ft. high, with spreading slender pubescent branchlets. 
ves oblong-elliptic, acuminate, slightly rounded or cuneate at the 
e, 3-64 in. long, 13-24 in. broad, membranous, glabrescent on both 
surfaces; midrib very prominent below; lateral nerves ascending, 
slightly oblique, 10-16 on each side, not continued to the margin; 
rtlary nerves lax, slightly flexuous; petiole 3-4 lin. long, stout, 
‘rinkled, shortly pubescent; stipules linear-lanceolate, slightly pubes- 
cent. Bracts ovate, very hairy. Male flowers shortly pedicellate: 
®pals obliquely ovate, acuminate, glabrous or slightly pubescent 
outside towards the apex. Petals minute, obovate-cuneate. Disk 
slightly rugose. Rudimentary ovary trifid. Female flowers subsessile : 
pals lanceolate, acute, 1} lin. long, } lin. broad at the base, pubescent 
Cutside in the lower half, glabrescent in fruit. Petals lanceolate, acute, 
n. long. ‘Disk bottle-shaped, enclosing the ovary, glabrous. Ovary 
void, glabrous ; styles 2, connate, deeply bilobed. Fruit oblong- 
ellipsoid, 1-celled.—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 494; Hiern in 
Cat. Afr, Pl. Welw. i. 9535. S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soe. xl. 190. 
B. Zenkeri, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 327; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et 
loyen-Congo, ii. 276; Gehrm. in Engl. Jahrb. xli. Beibl. 95, 39; Th. 
© Hel Durand, Syll. Flor. Congol, 480. 
