652 CXXII. EUPHORBIACE® (HUTCHINSON). — | Hymenocardia. 
the petiole. Male spikes up to 23 in. long; axis densely puberulous; 
bracts broadly spathulate, sparingly pilose. Calyx cupular, pinkish-red, 
shortly 5-lobed ; lobes triangular, ciliate. Stamens 5; filaments a little 
longer than the calyx, swollen towards the top, glabrous; anthers 3 lin. 
long, white (in the dried state), with a conspicuous golden-coloured 
gland on the back near the top; apices of the cells pilose. Rudi- 
mentary ovary linear, terete, bilobed, lobes pilose at the apex. F emale 
flowers axillary on leafy lateral branchlets. Calyx divided to the base. 
Sepals 5-8, linear-lanceolate, densely pubescent. Ovary glabrous, 
winged. Styles 2, distinct, divergent, about 14 times the length of 
the ovary, wrinkled and often twisted. Fruits obcordate, compressed, 
reticulate, about 1 in. long and 14-14 in. broad, glabrous, wings firmly 
membranous, longitudinally striate.—Baill. Etudes Gen. Euph. 275 
np 20: Mull. Arg. in DO. Prodr. xv. 1-477 ;-Oby- in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. xxix. 145, t. 94 (erroneously called 7. Heudelotii on the plate) ; 
Pax in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 236; De Wild. & Durand, Mat. Fl. Congo, 
ii. 59, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me sér, i. 47, and Contrib. Fl. Congo, }- 
49; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 966; De Wild. Reliq. Dewevr. S07; 
Pax in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 282; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et 
Moyen-Congo, ii. 269; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soe. xl. 194. H. 
mollis, var. glabra, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 528. H. obovata, Beille in 
Bull. Soe. Bot. France, lv. Mém. viii. 62. H. granulata and H. lanceolata, 
Beille, l.c. 62 and 63. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 779! Casamanca, Perottet, 359! 
Chevalier, 2626! Gambia: Albreda, Leprieur ! French Guinea: various locali‘ies, 
Farmar, 230! 231! 287! Chevalier, 311! 383! 573! 12481! Sierra . Leone: 
Kassa, Scott-Elliot, 5075! Duunia, Scott-Elliot, 4886! Falaba plateaux, Scott- 
Elliot, 5449! Gold Coast: Abetifi-Kwahu, Thompson, 86! Lagos: varios 
localities, Moloney! Foster, 31! Barter, 1206! Rowland! Mae Gregor; 189! 
Southern Nigeria: Western Province, Thompson, 25! Northern Nigeria: cone 
of the Niger and Benue Rivers, Barter, 329! Nupe, Barter, 1098! 1207! 1558! 
Kontagora, Dalziel, 78! Cameroons: Garua, Ledermann, 5068! 
Worth Central. Dar-Banda: foot of Kaga-Balidja, Chevalier, 6697! Eastern 
Shari region: Snoussi country; Kaga Toulou, Chevalier, 7366! 
Nile Land. Soudan, Broun, 496! Jur: various localities, Schweinfurth, 
126! 1310! 1338! 1519! 1576! 2353! Mittu, Schweinfurth, 2777! or 
Uganda: Unyoro, Dawe, 694! Bugoma, Dawe, 726! Madi, Speke & Grant, 733 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon, Thollon, 973! French Congo: prairies “coat 
Batékés, Thollon, 180! 422! Lower Congo: various localities, Thollon, la? 
Pynaert, 161; Vanderyst; Gillet, 152; Dewevre, 349, 727, 734A. Fen 
various localities, Welwitsch, 412! 412B! 413! 414! 414B! Gossweiler, 90° 
Y68! 3978! Baum, 216! 547! Dekindt, 3024! Antunes, 368! 3128! 3147! : 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Manganja, Dybowsh¥: 
Rhodesia: Gazaland ; Chikore Hills, Swynnerton, 1214! 1519! 
_South Central. Belgian Congo: Lomani River, Pogge, 1349! 
Dibele, Laurent. 
Bukila and 
