Amanoa. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACE (HUTCHINSON). 631 
ovate, slightly membranous, glabrous. Male flowers seen only very 
young, Sepals 5, ovate or triangular-ovate, coriaceous, glabrous. 
Petals oblong, obtuse, subcoriaceous, glabrous. Rudimentary ovary 
short, tritid, glabrous. Female flowers not seen. 
Nile Land. Jur: Mayob, Schweinfurth, 1544! 
2. A. bracteosa, Planch. in Hook. Ic, Pl. t. 797. A tree about 
20 ft. high, glabrous in all parts. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtusely 
acuminate, deltoid at the base, 3$~-6 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, rigidly 
coriaceous ; lateral nerves 8-10 on each side, looped, loops extending to 
within I lin. of the leaf-margin, very slightly raised below, not evident 
above; veins lax and inconspicuous; petiole slightly wrinkled, 4-5 
lin. long. Flowers in terminal or axillary spicate clusters; clusters 
alternate, distichous, 9-14 to each inflorescence; bracts coriaceous, 
outer keeled and mucronate, inner doubly keeled. Male flowers sessile 
in bud, at length with a stout pedicel about 4 lin. long. Sepals oblong, 
apex slightly hooded, 34 lin. long, 1} lin. broad, Petals obovate, sub- 
truncate, 1 lin. long. Disk subsinuately lobed, glabrous. Stamens 5; 
filaments free to the base, very stout, at first very short, at length 
1} lin. long; anthers nearly 1 lin. long. Rudimentary ovary trifid, 
glabrous. Female flowers solitary. Ovary 3-celled; stigma sessile, 
obsoletely trilobed. Capsule subglobose ; valves a little over 1 in. long, 
very thick and hard. Seeds somewhat reniform, shining.—Benth. in 
Hook, Niger FI. 512; Mill, Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 220; Stapf in 
eo Liberia, ii. 648. A. strobilantha, Planch. in Hook. Niger FI. 
t. 47, : 
_ Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Don! Liberia: Monrovia, Whyte! Sino Basin, 
Whyte i 
oe A strobilacea, Wiill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 515. A tree 30 ft. 
high, glabrous in all parts. Leaves oblanceolate cr oblong-elliptic, 
obrusely acuminate, deltoid at the base, 3-7 in. long, 1-2} in. broad, 
Corlaceous ; lateral nerves 8~12 on each side, looped, faintly impressed 
above, conspicuous below ; veins lax, conspicuous below ; petiole smooth 
or very slightly wrinkled, 4-5 lin. long; stipules adnate to the base of 
the petiole, 23 lin. long, coriaceous. Flowers in subglobose terminal and 
axillary sessile heads surrounded by coriaceous bracts ; bracts coriaceous, 
outer keeled and mucronate, inner doubly keeled ; bracteoles lanceolate, 
acutely apiculate, membranous. Male flowers: Sepals oblong, apex 
slightly hooded, 3 lin. long, 1 lin. broad. Petals very broadly obovate 
or suborbicular, # lin. long. Disk undulate, glabrous. Stamens free to 
the base; filaments about 1 lin. long; anthers 1} lin. long. Rudi- 
mentary ovary trilobed, glabrous. Female flowers: Sepals as in the 
male. Petals elliptic, 1} lin, long Disk as in the male. Ovary sub- 
globose, glabrous ; stigma discoid. Immature capsule ovoid, about 
® lin. in diam., glabrous, tipped by the persistent stigma.— Mill. Arg. 
in DC, Prodr. xv. ii, 220 ; Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 648. 
Upper Guinea. Liberia: Sino Basin, Whyte! Cameroons: Cameroon River, 
Mann, 745! 2290 
