658 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEX (HUTCHINSON). [Protomegabaria, 
coriaceous, glabrous; bracteoles connate, boat-shaped, glabrous ; pedicels 
1 lin. long. Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 1 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, 
thick and coriaceous, glabrous on both sides. Disk thin and closely 
adpressed to the base of the sepals, glabrous. Ovary ovoid, 3-angled, 
glabrous; styles short, bilobed, at first erect, at length recurved, glab- 
rous. Fruits nearly 2 in. long. Seeds ellipsoid, $ in. long, shining, 
with a distinct funicle.—Baccaurea macrophylla, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxviii. 21, not of Mill. Arg. Megabaria klaineanum, Pierre ex 
Hutchinson in Hook. Ic. Pl. sub t. 2929. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Batanga, moist forest, Dinklage, 1180! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: in the neighbourhood of Libreville, Klaine, 25! 
(coll. Aug. 1896, not of other dates), 575! 2582! 2654! 2837! 3017! 
A specimen collected by Henriques, 8, in the Island of St. Thomas, is possibly 
this species. The leaves are almost membranous and more attenuated to the base 
than those of the specimens from the mainland. 
26. THECACORIS, A. Juss.; Benth. et Hook, f. Gen. Pl. iii. 286. 
Flowers diccious. Petals usually present. Male flowers: Sepals 9, 
imbricate, often ciliate. Petals 5, lanceolate, often ciliate. Disk 
consisting of 5 free segments, segments opposite the petals, often 
hairy. Stamens 5, inserted between the disk-segments, opposite the 
sepals; filaments free; anther-cells distinct, subglobose, pendulous 
from a thick connective or at length erect. Rudimentary ovary thick, 
fleshy, truncate. Female flowers: Petals smaller than in the male. 
Disk annular, Ovary 3-celled; ovules 2 in each cell; styles 3, distinct 
or shortly connate at the base, recurved, apex bifid. Capsule trilobed, 
dehiscing into 2-valved cocci. Seeds (where known) more or less rounded ; 
testa shining.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, stipulate, entire. 
Flowers small, in axillary many-flowered racemes or spikes; bracts 
usually small. 
Species 9, one from Madagascar, the remainder West African. 
*Leaves narrowed to the base. 
Bracts of the female inflorescence conspicuous, about 
2 lin. long in fruit. 
Male inflorescence and flowers pubescent ° rae als av tp stenopetala. 
Male inflorescence and flowers glabrous . : . 2 T. Batesi. 
Bracts of the female inflorescence small and incon- 
spicuous, $—3 lin. long in fruit. 
Ovary pilose or setulose. 
Leaves conspicuously mucronate, under 6 in. long 
and 24 in. broad. 
Ovary sparingly setulose in the upper part only 
Ovary equally setulose or pubescent all over. 
Leaves about thrice as long as broad, gradu- 
ally produced to the mucro, unequal-sided 
at the base . = . . A, T. trichogyne 
Leaves about twice as long as broad, abruptly py 
mucronate, equal-sided at the base . . 5. 2. Chevaliert. 
Leaves inconspicuously mucronate, over 6 in. 
long and 3 in. tad ° . e ° . 6. TZ. membranaced- 
T. lucida. 
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