Antidesma. | .CXXU, EUPHORBIACEA (HUTCHINSON). 647 
282; Durand & Schinz, Etudes FI. Congo, 243; Hiern in Cat. Afr. J’. 
Welw. i. 965; De Wild. & Durand, Contr. Fl. Congo, i. 49, and Relig. 
Dewevr. 206 ; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Katanga, 79, and Miss, E. Laurent, 
128; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 484. A. venosum, var. 
thouarsianum, Tul. le. 234. A. bifrons, Tul. l.c. 229. A. rufescens, 
Tul. 1.c. 231. A. boivinianum, Baill. Adansonia, ii. 45. A. membranaceum, 
var. molle, Miil]l. Arg. ].c. 261; Hiern, l.c.; Rendle in Journ. Linn. 
Soc, xxxvii. 211; 8. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 194. A. nervosum, 
De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 270. A. venoswn, 
forma glabrescens, De Wild. Etudes Fl. Katanga, 79. A. fusco-cinerea, 
Beille in Bull. Soe. Bot. France, lv. Mém. viii. 64. A. Sassandre, Beille, 
le. lvi. Mém. viii. 123. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: near Albreda, Leprieur, Perrottet. Freuch 
Guinea: Kouta Jallon; pliteau of Labé, Chevalier, 12397! Dintinn, Chevalier, 
18523! 13524! Sierra Leone: various localities, Scott-Elliot, 5259! 5393! 5703! 
Ivory Coast: basin of the Lower Sassandra River at Soubré, Chevalier, 19118! 
Gold Coast: Abetifi-Kwahu, Johnson, 684! 636! Lagos: various localities, 
Foster, 23! 92! 971 Dawodu, 200! Northern Nigeria: various localities, Barter, 
1696! Vogel! Elliott, 189! Dalziel, 200! Shaw, 65! Cameroons: Yaunde, 
Zenker, 743! 
North Central. Eastern Shari region: Suoussi country ; Ndellé, Chevalier, 
7665 ! 
: Nile Land, Soudan: Bahr-el-Jebel; Giging, Brown, 1119! Bahr-el- 
Ghazal, Broun ! Fazokl, Kotschy, 397! Jur, Schweinfurth, 135! 1943! British 
i Africa: region of Mombasa, Whyte! Uganda: various localities, Dawe, 
200! 318! Scott-Hiliot, 7230! 7358! 8089! 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island, Zaurent. French Congo: Bongs, Schlechter, 
12669 | Lower Congo: various localities, Smith, 47! Dewévre, Dupont, Pynaert, 
Bittner, Vanderyst, Augola: various localities, Welwitsch, 402! 202B! 403! 
405 partly! Monteiro! Gossweiler, 346! 3468! 759! Baum, 411! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: various localities, Hens, C. 120! Lua, 
Verdick, Debeerst, Sapin! Monbuttu; Munza, Schweinfurth, 3364! 3447 ! 
_Mozamb. Distr. Pemba Island: Ngezi Forest, Lyne, 128! Zanzibar, 
Hildebrandt, 1160! Kirk! Boivin, Peters. German East Africa: various 
localities, Goetze, 32! 58! Volkens, 9! Heinsen, 144! Holst, 2094! Scott. 
Elliot, 8327! Meller! Portuguese East Africa: Shupanga, Kirk! Gazaland, 
Stweynnerton, 169! Likoma Islands, in Luke Nyasa, Johnson, 53! Nyasaland: 
various localities, Kirk! Buchanan, 14! 443! 732! 1492! Scott-Elliot, 8448! 
8572! Adamson, 165! Purves,19! 123! Whyte,82! Cameron,7! McClounie, 33! 
Rhodesia: Victoria, Monro, 762! 1059! 
Occurs also in South Africa. ’ 
The inflorescence is frequently attacked by a gull insect, and then it is more or 
less paniculhite. 
Imperfectly known species. 
8. A. pachybotryum, Pax d: K. Hoff. in Engl. Jahrb. xlv. 236. 
A shrub 6-8 ft. high; branchlets fulvous-pubescent when young, at 
length glabrous, “Leaves oblong or obovate-oblong, acuminate to an 
© btuse apex, obtuse at fhe base, 6-74 in. long, 24-3} in. broad, subcoria- 
‘Ceous, rufous-pubescent on the nerves, at length more or less glabrous, 
Prominently reticulate below ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, fulvous- 
