Mesobotryc. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEA (HUTCHINSON ). 663° 
branchlet, 3 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, with a strong pubescent nerve 
parallel to the concave margin. Male flowers. not known. Female: 
racemes axillary on the leafy shoots, solitary, 14 in. long at the time of 
flowering ; axis puberulous; bracts minute, triangular, acute, densely 
pubescent ; pedicels very short. Calyx-lobes 5, broadly ovate, obtuse, 
ciliate, otherwise almost glabrous. Disk annular, short, minutely ciito- 
late. Ovary ovoid, 2-celled, glabrous ; styles very short, bifid, spreading. 
Fruits (immature) ellipsoid, 3 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, glabrous, covered 
with a glaucous bloom like that of a grape ; pedicels 1 lin. long, puberu- 
lous.—M. Sapini, De Wild, Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 268 
(from description). Jf. Sapini, var. brevipetiolata, De Wild. l.c. 269. 
Staphysora Sapini, De Wild. 1.c., name only. 
South Central. Beigian Congo: Muene-Putu-Kassongo, Biiliner, 259! valley 
of the Dyuma River? Gentil. Madibi, Kwibu, Kasai, Bangala, and Dima, Sapin. 
3. M. floribunda, Lenth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. xiii. 75, t. 1296. 
Branchlets terete, at first when quite young sparingly setulose-pubes- 
cent, very soon becoming entirely glabrous. Leaves elliptic or slightly 
oblong-elliptic, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, rounded or very 
rarely subcuneate at the base, 3-6 in. long, 2-34 in. broad, membranous. 
when young, thinly chartaceous when older, the margin remotely 
repand-denticulate, glabrous on both surfaces; lateral nerves 6—9 on 
each side, looped and anastomosing near the margin, prominent below ; 
tertiary nerves distinct, distant, subparallel; veins lax, scarcely con- 
Spicuous ; petiole $14 in. long, rather stout, sparingly pilose along the 
8r0ove on the upper side, otherwise glabrous ; stipules subulate, about 
2 lin. long, setulose-pubescent, subpersistent. Male racemes crowded 
mM the leaf-axils, about 2 in. long; axis almost glabrous or very spar- 
ingly puberulous; bracts small, triangular, acute. Calyx 5-6-lobed ; 
lobes ovate, obtuse, $ lin. long, glabrous. Disk-glands large, fleshy, 
*Paringly pilose or almost glabrous. Stamens 5-6; filaments quite 
ree, glabrous ; anther-cells parallel. Rudimentary ovary almost equal- 
ling the filaments, subentire, slightly pubescent. Female racemes 
Solitary or geminate in each leaf-axil, about 3 in. long; bracts acute ; 
Pedicels in the fruiting stage about 1 lin. long. Calyx-lobes ovate 
oF obliquely ovate, obtuse, strongly imbricate, glabrous. Disk cupulay, 
short, Sparingly ciliolate. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; styles 2, very short, 
bilobed, glabrous, the lobes a little recurved. Infructescences slender, 
8-4 in. long, bearing many fruits. Fruits purple, ovoid or ovoid-globose, 
An. long, 2 lin. in diam., tipped by the persistent styles, glabrous and 
cantly glaucous.—Antidesma Schweinfurthii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 
3 South Central. Belgian Congo: Niamniam ; by the Assika River, Schweinfurt/, 
1241 33221 Monbuttu: Munza, Schweinfurth, 3472! 
4. M. Sparsifiora, Hutchinson. A climbing shrub or small tree ;. 
young branchlets sparingly setulose, older ones glabrous. Leaves 
elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rather acutely and somewhat abruptly acumi- 
nate, rounded at the base or rarely slightly cuneate, very variable in size, 
