620 CXXII. EUPHORBIACE® (HUTCHINSON). | Bridetia. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Mfine, Laurent ; Kisantu, Gillet, 755, 1995 ; 
Kitobola, Pynaert, 36; Kwamouth, Bieler. Angolu: Golungo Alto; near Trombeta, 
Sange, and Camilungo, Welwitsch, 368! 3688! mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, 
Welwitsch, 369! Pango Andongo; about Pedras de Guinga, Welwitsch, 365! near 
Bunba, Welwitsch, 366! Huilla; at the base of Morro de Lopollo, Welwitsch, 372! 
Malange district ; near Catombe, Gossweiler, 1OOL! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Sankuru River, Sapin; Luisi River, 
Kassner, 2669! Kundelungu, Késsner, 2609! 
Var. orientalis, Hutchinson. Lateral nerves unbranched, 11-13 (rarely 8 or 
9); tertiary nerves slightly prominent below; petiole 4-5 lin. long.—Gentilia hygro- 
phita, Beille, le. 70. B. micrantha, var. ferruginea, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 
145. Bridelia ndellensis, Beille, 1.c. 69. 
North Central. French Congo: Upper Shari region; Mandjias Country, 
Chevalier, 6289! Ndelli, Chevalier, 6903! 7482! 8080! 
Nile Land. Jur: Okel (Okale), Schweinfurth, 1703! Niamuiam: Nabam- 
bisso River, Schweinfurth, 3726! Uganda: Madi, Speke a Grant ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Monbuttu; Munza, Schweinfurth, 3429 ! 
15. B. micrantha, Baill. Adansonia, iii. 164. A tree 20-40 ft. 
high, with a dense widely spreading head ; branchlets rusty -tomentose 
or pubescent when young, at length glabrous, with scattered lenticels. 
Leaves elliptic, oblong-elliptic or obovate, shortly acuminate and sub- 
acute or obtuse, slightly cuneate or rounded at the base, 2-7 In. long, 
1-3 in. broad, slightly coriaceous, often shining and glabrous above, 
almost glabrous or minutely puberulous below; lateral nerves ascend- 
ing, slightly oblique, 8-16 on each side, continued to the margin and 
forming a marginal nerve, prominent below ; tertiary nerves more OF 
less inconspicuous; petiole stout, 2—5 lin. long, wrinkled, densely 
villous or pubescent; stipules caducous; bracts pubescent. Male 
flowers shortly stalked: Sepals triangular, subacute, 4 lin, long; 
pubescent towards the base. Petals small, obovate-cuneate, trilobed 
or dentate. Disk thick and fleshy. Rudimentary ovary trupeate oO: 
trifid, very short. Female flowers sessile: Sepals as in the pu 
Petals ovate, entire. Disk almost enclosing the ovary, ciliate, densely 
pilose outside. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; styles 2; 2-lobed, glabrous. 
Fruits ovoid or ellipsoid, 2-3 lin. in diam., 1-celled.—Miill. Arg. ys 
DC. Prodr. xy, ii. 498, excl. var. ferruginea with syn. ; De Wild. ¢ 
Durand, Relig. Dewevr. 200; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen- 
Congo, i. 275, ii. 276; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl.190. 3: ayr 
cola, Baill. Adansonia, i.79; Gehrm. in Engl. Jahrb. xli. Beibl. at eg 
B. stenocarpa, Mill, Arg. in Flora, 1864, 515; Pax in Engl. Jabr®- 
viii. 61, and in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 157; Gehrm. le. B. speciosa, Va" 
trichoclada, Miill. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 327, and in DC. Prodr. ate 
ii. 498. B. ferruginea, vay. gambecola, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PLM hi. 
1. 954. B. abyssinica, var. densiflora, Gehrm. in Engl. Jahrb. xii. Beibl. 
95,41. Candelabria micrantha, Hochst. in Flora, 1843, 79. oe 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 38! 605! Sieber! Albreda, Lepriet” 
Perrottet ! in woods near Mboro, Cayor. French Guinea: Erimakona’ eng jous 
kuna), Scott-Elliot, 5397! Sierra Leone: Bagru River, Mann, 883! varie F 
localities, Scoft-Elliot, 4018! 4583! 4911! 5216! Dagomba; Salaga, epapes: 
