Hymenocardia.|  CXX11. KUPHORBIACE (HUTCHINSON). G51 
cylindric, pilose towards the apex. Female flowers not seen. Fruits 
like those of H/. Heudelotii, but rather densely pubescent. 
Upper Guinea. [Trench Guinea: Fouta Jallon; Kollangni, Chevalier, 
12205! 12206! 13504! plateaux of Labé, Chevalier, 12380! Sierra Leone: 
between Berria and Falaba, Scott-Elliot, 4976! Gold Coast: Easmon! Ivory 
Coast: banks of the River Comoé, Chevalier, 17571! 
5. Hi. lyrata, Zul. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 8me sér.xv. 258, Branchlets 
sparingly pubescent when young, soon becoming glabrous. Leaves 
ovate-elliptic, obtusely acuminate, rounded and usually unequal at the 
base, 1-2} in. long, 4-1} in. broad, papery or firmly membranous, 
glabrous on both surfaces, with reddish glands below; lateral nerves 4-6 
on each side, looped some distance from the margin, very slightly raised 
on the lower surface; veins scarcely visible; petiole 3-4 lin. long, 
slender, often slightly wrinkled and pubescent ; stipules soon falling off. 
Male and young female flowers not known. Fruits compressed, oblong 
or obovate, deeply emarginate, subcordate at the base, wings forming a 
very narrow sinus and almost touching each other; fruit-body reticu- 
late, glabrous; wings membranous, obscurely and longitudinally striate. 
—Baill. Etude Gén. Euph. t. 27, fig. 24; Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 
h. 477, 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: Heudelot, 581! Perrottet, 359. Sierra 
Leone: Unwin § Smythe, 10! Ivory Coast: valley of the Cavally, Mount Nienskué, 
Chevalier, 19454! 
6. HL. mollis, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 528, excl. var. A tree or 
shrub ; branchlets pubescent. Leaves elliptic or slightly oblanceolate- 
elliptic, obtuse, very slightly rounded at the base, 1? in. long, #-1 in. 
broad, Sparingly pilose and somewhat bullate on the upper surface, 
densely pilose below and with gold-coloured glands scattered amongst 
the hairs ; lateral nerves about 6 on each side, pubescent on the upper 
surface, almost hidden by the hairs below. Fruits cordate at the base ; 
: fruit-body broadly ovate in outline, reticulate and densely pubescent ; 
Wings longitudinally striate, about 4 in, long and 8 lin. broad.—Pax in 
Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 237; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, 
4275, H. lasiophylla, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 79. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kagehi, on Lake Victoria, Fischer, 
533! Pori, on the Ugalla River, Bohm, 1174! North-west Rhodesia; Makoti, 
Rogers, 8289 | 
7. H. acida, Tul. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 3me sér.xv.256. A small tree 
about 20 ft, high, or a shrub; branchlets rusty-puberulous. Leaves 
oblong, elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse and often rounded, 
varely emarginate, somewhat rounded and slightly unequal or narrowed 
at the base, up to 33 in. long and 14 in. broad ; young leaves usually 
pubescent and membranous, densely beset with gold-coloured glands 
neath ; older leaves coriaceous, usually becoming glabrous or almost 
80; lateral nerves 7-9 on each side, distinct on both surfaces ; petiole 
Slender, up to } in. long, in the young state pubescent, at length glab- 
*ous ; stipules subulate or filiform, pubescent, about half the length of 
