Megabaria. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACE# (HUTCHINSON). 629 
glabrous ; stigmas 3, reflexed, entire, sparingly papillose. Fruits ellip- 
soid, slightly pointed at each end. Seeds ellipsoid, about } in. long, 
5 lin. broad, red and shining.—Zhecacoris Trillesii, Beille in Bull. Soc. 
Bot. France, lv. Mém. viii. 120, not of Pierre. 
Worth Central. Upper Shari: valley of the Boro, Chevalier, 7036 bis! 
Nile Land. Uganda: in the Luanhabya Forest, Dawe, 760! Entebbe, Bag- 
shawe, 723 ! 
Dr. Bagshawe states that the leaves of this species are copper-coloured and said to 
be poisonous. 
16. CENTROPLACUS, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. n.s. i. 114. 
Flowers dicwcious. Petals present in the male flowers, absent from 
the female. Male flowers: Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, imbrieate, 
larger than the sepals. Stamens 5, opposite the sepals, inserted on a 
fleshy eupular disk; filaments very short; anthers introrse, cells dis- 
tinct, ellipsoid, dehiscing longitudinally. Disk cupular, fleshy. Rudi- 
mentary ovary columnar, entire or at length trifid, densely villous. 
Female flowers: Sepals as in the male. Disk saucer-shaped, 5-lobed, 
lobes alternate with the sepals. Staminodes small, opposite the sepals. 
Ovary 3-celled ; styles 3, subulate, short, entire, slightly recurved ; 
ovules two in each cell. Capsule oblong-ellipsoid, apparently loculicidal ; 
exocarp slightly bony ; endocarp thin. Seeds ellipsoid ; testa black and 
shining.—A tree, Leaves alternate, petiolate, penninerved, obscurely 
serrate; stipules small. Flowers in axillary panicles on the young 
shoots ; pedicels short. 
Oue endemic species. 
_ This genus has been referred to Flacourtiacee, but there seems little doubt as to 
its being Euphorbiaceous. 
1. C. glaucinus, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. n.s.i. 115. A 
tree, 35-50 fe. high; branchlets slender, terete, glabrous. Leaves 
oblong or oblong-elliptic, gradually or subcaudate-acuminate to an acute 
apex, obtuse at the base, 3-7 in. long, 1-2} in. broad, rather distantly 
and somewhat obscurely serrate, thinly coriaceous, glabrous on both 
Surfaces, dull below, slightly shining above; lateral nerves 5-7 on each 
side, faintly looped well within the margin, prominent below, a little 
raised above ; tertiary nerves rather faint, close, spreading at right 
angles to the midrib ; petiole 2-3 lin. long, blackish and slightly wrinkled 
when dry, glabrous; stipules small, triangular-subulate, scarcely 3 lin. 
long. Male panicles 14-3 in. long; axis and branches puberulous ; 
bracts subulate, obtuse, about 4 lin. long, puberulous; pedicels $ lin. 
long, puberulous, Sepals 5, slightly unequal, ovate, obtuse or rounded 
at the apex, about 4 lin. long, coriaceous, ciliate, glabrous within, 
y ellow-puberulous on the outside. Petals 5, broadly obovate or obovate- 
elliptic, rounded at both ends, about 1 lin. long and broad, slightly 
©orlaceous, puberulous on both sides. Stamens 5; filaments short ; 
“nthers } lin. long. Disk fleshy, slightly lobed between the filaments, 
glabrous, Rudimentary ovary columnar, 3 lin. long, entire or at length 
