690 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON). [/Zymenocardia. 
Upper Guinea. Togo: Afem, Kersting, A. 515! Bagu, Kersting, 301! 
Njamassila, Kersting, 157! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Fort Beni, Mildbraed, 2421! 
3. H. Heudelotii, Jill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 518. A shrub or 
small tree; branchlets whitish-pubescent, at length glabrous. Smaller 
eaves elliptic, 14-2} in. long, 3-14 in. broad, older leaves broadly ovate 
or rotundate-ovate, obtuse, cordate at the base, 2-34 in. long, 14-3 in. 
‘broad, firmly membranous or papery, midrib and lateral nerves pubescent 
beneath, blade otherwise glabrous and beset with golden-coloured glands 
on the lower surface; lateral nerves 5-6 on each side, distinct on both 
surfaces and slightly prominent on the lower; petiole }-} in. long, 
densely pubescent ; stipules lanceolate, soon falling, about 2 lin. long. 
Male spikes 1-2 in. long; axis minutely puberulous ; bracts broadly 
ovate, coriaceous, almost glabrous. Calyx 5-lobed to about the middle, 
glandular and pubescent; lobes ovate, obtuse, ciliolate. Stamens 5, 
joined at the base of the rudimentary ovary; anthers and rudimentary 
ovary as in Hf. acide. Young female flowers not seen. Fruits depressed- 
cordate, with the axis slightly projecting at the apex from the centre of 
the obscure sinus, 3-2 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, very flat, distinctly 
reticulate, glabrous.— Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 477 ; Pax in De 
Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 269. #7. guineensis, Beille 
in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lv. Mém. viii. 63. 
Upper Guinea, Senegambia: Heudelot, 838! French Guinea: Fouta 
Jallon, between the Konkouri River and Timbo, Chevalier, 12458! between 
Ditinn and Timbo, Chevalier, 12636! Sierra Leone: near Mofari, Scott-Elliot, 
4431! near Muszaia, Scott-Elliot, 5104! near rivers, Erimakuna, Scott-Elliot, 
5257! Madina, Limba, Scott-Elliot, 5899! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 
1150! at the confluence of the Niger and the Benue, Barter, 383! Boule 
Nigeria: Idda, Barter, 327! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Ubangi; Modgaka, Thollon, Sait 
Laurent, 1972; Pynaert, 344; near Yumbi, Laurent, 427. 
Fala, 
4. HL, Chevalieri, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lv. Mém. viii. 61. 
A shrub or small tree 10-16 ft. high; branches and young brane’ 
densely and shortly pubescent, the former at length glabrous or sre 
so. Mature leaves broadly ovate, shortly and rather abruptly ane de 2 
rounded or cordate at the base, 14-44 in. long, 1-3 in. broad, thinly char 
taceous, midrib pubescent on both surfaces, with rather dense Lee 
hairs in the axils of the lateral nerves on the lower side, other 
glabrous, beset with numerous gold-coloured glands on the lower ge? 
face ; lateral nerves 5-8 on each side, spreading, faintly looped ee 
the margin, distinct on both surfaces, prominent below; velns us 
slender and rather close ; petiole 3-3 in. long, terete, pubescent ; or in 
linear, 2-3 lin, long, pubescent. Male spikes solitary, about 1} a 
long, borne on the two-year-old wood; axis pubescent ; eet "oben 
lanceolate, rather densely pubescent outside. Calyx 5-lobed ; thers 
ovate-triangular, pubescent. Stamens 5; filaments short; aD cub 
with a golden-coloured gland on the back, Rudimentary ovary 
