632 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEZ (HUTCHINSON). | Actephila. 
18. ACTEPHILA, Blume; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 269. 
Flowers monecious or diccious. Petals present. Male flowers: 
Sepals 5-6, imbricate. Petals 5-6, scale-like. Disk entire in the 
solitary African species. Stamens 3-6, inserted within the disk; 
filaments shortly connate at the base; anthers thick, dehiscing longi- 
tudinally. Rudimentary ovary trilobed. Female flowers: Sepals and 
petals as in the male. Ovary 3-celled; styles short, free or connate at 
the base, undivided or bifid; ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule slightly 
woody, dehiscing loculicidally into 3 two-valved cocci. Seeds often 
solitary in each cell, large, testa thin; albumen very scanty or absent ; 
cotyledons thick, fleshy, often much dilated, plicate or contorted-plicate. 
—Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, often large, entire. 
Flowers glomerate in the axils of the leaves; males numerous, shortly 
pedicellate ; females solitary or few, long-pedicellate. 
Species about 14, from India, Malay Archipelago, and Australia. 
1, A. reticulata, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 326. A small tree, 
about 30 ft. high. Leaves oblong or elliptic, caudate-acuminate, more 
or less rounded at the base, 44-7 in. long, 2-34 in. broad, entire, very 
thinly coriaceous, glabrous and slightly shining on both surfaces, acumen 
3-1} in. long; lateral nerves 5-8, arcuate, raised on the lower surface ; 
tertiary nerves subparallel, close and prominent; petiole glabrous, 
transversely rugose, 3-4 lin. long ; stipules subulate from a triangular 
base. Flowers monecious, in axillary fascicles, the females very few ; 
pedicels slender, up to 2 lin. long, glabrous or puberulous. Male 
flowers: Sepals obovate or obovate-elliptic, 1 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, 
rounded at the apex, coriaceous, with slightly hyaline margins. Petals 
suborbicular, slightly toothed, 4 the length of the sepals. Disk small, 
annular, entire, glabrous. Stamens 5-6; filaments shortly connate at 
the base, inserted within the disk ; anthers 1 lin. long. Rudimentary 
ovary tripartite, reaching almost as high as the top of the anthers, 
glabrous, lobes truncate. Female flowers: Sepals, petals and disk as 0 
the male. Ovary ovoid. Capsule trilobed, about 5 lin. in diam., with 
. 2 brown shining seeds in each cell —Pentubrachion reticulatum, Mii I, 
Arg. in Flora, 1864, 533, and in DOC. Prodr. xv. ii, 224. Microdesms 
reticulata, Benth. & Hook. f. ex Pax in Engl, Jahrb. XXv}. 326. 
Amanoa laurifolia, Pax, l.c. xv. 522. Actephilu africana, Pax in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. i. 210, name only. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 844! 865! 934! 1124! 
2337! 2888! 2982! 3448! 3497! 3869! Great Batanga, Dinklage, 572! ; 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Gaboon River, Mann, 944! Klaine, 639! ace: 
Sibange Farm, Soyaux,79! Bittner, 291! Dinklage, 572! Agoncho, Buchholz ! 
1688! 
ro; ANDRACHNE, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 270. 
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Flowers monecious. Petals present in the African species. a x 
flowers: Sepals 5-6, imbricate. Petals membrancus. Disk consistite 
