670 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEA (HLUTCHINSON). | Mesobotrya. 
looped and reticulate near the margin; tertiary nerves and veins lax, 
scarcely conspicuous; petiole $-2 in, long, channelled above, slightly 
wrinkled at the apex; stipules subulate, acute, subterete, glabrous. 
Male racemes clustered, arising from the old wood, 2}~3} in, long; axis 
grooved, puberulous ; flowers in fascicles; pedicels slender, about 3 lin. 
long, puberulous; bracts ovate, pubescent. Calyx deeply 5-6-partite ; 
Jobes ovate, subacute, pubescent and ciliolate. Disk-glands large and 
fleshy, transversely ellipsoid, shortly pubescent. Stamens 5-6 ; fila- 
ments glabrous. Rudimentary ovary equalling the stamens, subpeltate, 
shortly pubescent. Female racemes clustered, 9-20 in each cluster, 
arising from the older wood, 24-4 in. long; axis somewhat sulecate, 
densely puberulous or tomentellous; bracts minute; pedicels about 
4 lin. long, tomentellous. Calyx as in the male. Disk shortly cupular, 
surrounding the base of the ovary, ciliolate. Ovary tomentose ; styles 
bipartite, recurved, acute, subglabrous. Fruits ovoid-globose, 4-5 lin. 
in diam., reddish-brown when dry, very sparingly pubescent, 2-4-celled. 
Seeds usually solitary.—Pierardia griffoniana, Baill. Adansonia, iv. 136. 
Baccaurea griffoniana, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv, ii. 464. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Klaine, 545! 1267! 1268! Griffon du Bellay, 126. 
12. M. longipes, Hutchinson. A shrub or small tree 7-12 ft. 
high; branchlets terete, glabrous; bark grey. Leaves lanceolate or 
oblong-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, acute at the base, 4-10 in. long, 
1-24 in. broad, entire, firmly membranous, glabrous and dull on both 
surfaces ; lateral nerves 8-10 on each side, reticulate and faintly looped 
near the margin, slightly prominent on the lower surface only ; tertiary 
nerves distant, subparallel, faint ; veins scarcely visible ; petiole 1-2 in. 
long, with a broad shallow groove on the upper side, glabrous; stipules 
lanceolate-subulate, setulose in a young state, soon falling off. Male 
racemes about 24 in. long; axis rather stout, suleate, glabrous ; bracts 
small, ovate, acute, glabrous ; pedicels about } lin. long, glabrous. Calyx- 
lobes 5, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, 3 lin. long, scarcely $ lin. broad, quite 
glabrous and not ciliate. Disk-glands 5, contiguous, pubescent. Stamens 
5; filaments at length long and exceeding the sepals; anther-cells 
parallel. Rudimentary ovary columnar or subobconie, entire, pubes- 
cent. Female racemes lax, apparently arising from the old wood, about 
24 in. long when in fruit; axis slightly flattened and grooved, very 
minutely puberulous; bracts about half the length of the pedicels, 
subulate ; pedicels 4 lin. long, sparingly puberulous. Calyx-lobes Me 
strongly imbricate, triangular, subacute, $ lin. long, minutely ciliolate. 
Disk shortly cupular, ciliate. Ovary 2-celled, ovoid, sparingly setulose ; 
styles 2, very short, minutely bifid, sparingly setulose. Fruits wit: 
a pedicel 1 lin, long, ellipsoid or obliquely ellipsoid, 3 lin. long, 2 b»- 
in diam., glabrous except for a very few setulose hairs towards or 
base, brownish-red when dry.—Antidesma longipes, Pax in Engl. Jabrb. 
xv. 529, not of Hook, f. 
I he Guinea. Gaboon: Munda district; Sibange Farm, Soyau, 264! 
