Bridelia. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACE® (HUTCHINSON), 621 
Gold Coast: Aburi Hills, Brown, 931! Kwahu, Johnson, 657! and without precise 
locality, Hvans, 20! Lagos, Rowland! Southern Nigeria: Aboh, Barter, 173! 
Old Calabar, Thomson, 85! Holland, 111! Cameroons: Abonando, Rudatis, 26! 
45! Bipinde, Zenker, 1287! 2837! 3735! Batanga, Bates, 49! 157! 
Wile Land. Uganda; Toro, Dawe, 466! Usoga, Scott-Elliot, 7191 ! 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island, Mann! Island of St. Thomas, Quintas, 37! 
Spanish Guinea: Nkolentangan, Zessmann, 145! Lower Congo: islands near 
Ponta da Lenha, Naumann. Angola: Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 360! 364! 
Bumbo, Welwitsch, 371! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Uluguru, Goefze, 138! Kilimanjaro; 
Marangu, Volkens, 1398! Usambara; Derema, Scheffler, 167! British Central 
Africa: Nyasaland ; Namasi, Cameron, 6! Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 52! Scott- 
Elliot, 8554! Zomba, Kirk! Purves, 213! Gazaland: Lower Umswirizwi River; 
near Chirinda, Swynnerton, 46! 536 ! 
This appears to be a very variable species, especially in regard to the number of 
lateral nerves in the leaves, a character which was used by Miiller to distinguish 
B. stenocarpa, but as so many intermediate forms occur I have been compelled to 
regard them as forms of one species. 
Imperfectly known species, 
16. B. abyssinica, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxix. 630. A small, 
unarmed tree. Leaves narrowly ovate, acuminate, up to 5 in. long and 
1} in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, shining, bright green below, margin 
slightly undulate or subcrenulate; lateral nerves 13-17 on each side. 
Flowers glabrous. Male flowers: Sepals ovate - triangular, acute. 
Petals minute, much smaller than the sepals.” Disk thick, lobed. 
Rudimentary ovary conical. Female flowers: Sepals and petals as in 
the male, Ovary glabrous. Styles 2, bilobed. Fruit ellipsoid, acute, 
about 4 lin. long, 1-celled.—Gehrm. in Engl. Jahrb. xli. Beibl. 95, 40, 
excl. var. densiflora. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: without locality, Rosen. 
This is probably a form of B. micrantha, Baill. 
17. B. Mildbrzedii, Gehrm. in Jahresb. Schles. Ges., zool,-bot. 
sect.,1908, 2. A small tree; branchlets pubescent, at length glabrous. 
eaves lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, 14-44 in. long, 3-1} in. broad ; 
lateral nerves produced to the margin; petiole up to 5 lin. long, 
tomentose. Flowers axillary, 1} lin. in diam., glabrous. Fruits 
I-celled, globose, about 5 lin. in diam.—Fedde, Repert. viii. 575. 
"altoids Distr. German East Africa: Wau Island, Lake Kiwu, Mildbraed, 
11. CLEISTANTHUS, Hook. f.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
P). iii. 268. 
Flowers moneecious or diccious. Petals usually present. Male 
OWer ; Calyx-sezments 5, valvate. Petals 5, or rarely absent, 
Scale-like, small. Disk entire or sinuately lobed. Stamens 5, as in 
Bridelia ; anther-cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary 
