672 OXXII. EUPHORBIACE® (HUTCHINSON). — | /seudolachnostylis, 
trifid, glabrous. Young female flowers not seen. Fruits tardily ? 
septicidal, ovoid or ellipsoid, # in. long, 4 in. thick, 3-celled; pericarp 
coarsely wrinkled when dry, glabrous and shining; endocarp horny, 
about $ lin. thick. Seeds ellipsoid, about 4 lin. long, 2 lin. thick ; testa 
shining. —Cleistanthus ? glaucus, Hiern in Cat, Atr. Pl. Welw. i, 959. 
Pseudolachnostylis Dekindtii, Pax, var. (?) glubra, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. 
Ixiii, 75. LP. Verdickiit, De Wild. Etudes Fl. Katanga, 205, from 
description. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; near Luxillo and Pedras de Guinga, 
Welwitsch, 1235! Golungo ‘Alto; between Camilungo and Quitara, Welwitsch, 1244! 
Malange district, Gossweiler, 958! 964! 967! 979! Benguela, Dekindt, 849. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Lukafu, Verdick, 33. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Ukami; Morogoro, Holtz, 1788! 
" 2. P. Bussei, Pax MSS. Branches terete, slightly sulcate ; bark 
brown, glabrous; ultimate branchlets rather slender, glabrous. Leaves 
ovate-oblong or ovate-elliptic, rounded at both ends, 14-4 in. long, 
1-232 in. broad, chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, quite glabrous on both — 
surfaces ; lateral nerves 6—7 on each side, prominent on the lower surface, 
branched towards the margin; tertiary nerves rather distant, distinct 
below; veins somewhat faint and rather close; petiole 2 lin. long, 
somewhat fleshy and wrinkled, quite glabrous; stipules deciduous. 
Flowers not known. Fruits depressed-globose, 3 in. in diam. ; pericarp 
thin, coarsely wrinkled when dry, yellow-drab, glabrous; mesocarp 
thick, crustaceous or almost fibrous; endocarp hard and bony, yellow, 
about 4 lin. thick. Seeds ellipsoid, about 3 lin. long and 2 lin. broad ; 
testa thin and shining. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Mandera, Sacleux, 925! Dar-es- 
Salaam, Holtz, 1120! Stuhlmann, 39! Kilimatinde, Holtz, 1450! and without 
precise locality, Busse, 2807! 
3. P. maprounezfolia, Pux in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 20. A shrub 
or small tree; branchlets terete, tomentose when young, becoming 
glabrous. Leaves ovate or ovate-elliptic, rounded or very slightly and 
obtusely pointed at the apex, rounded or slightly cuneate at the base, 
1}-8 in. long, 1-14 in. broad, slightly coriaceous, glabrous on both 
surfaces except on the lower half of the midrib, which is more or less 
densely pubescent below; lateral nerves 6-7 on each side, looped, 
slightly prominent on the lower surface ; petiole 3-5 lin. long, slightly 
wrinkled, brownish-pubescent ; stipules deciduous. Male flowers 12 
axillary pedunculate cymes; peduncle 2-3 lin. long, more or /€ss 
densely pubescent; flowers clustered, subsessile; bracts ovate Or 
oblong, pubescent. Sepals 5, ovate, obtuse, 14 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, 
pubescent outside, glabrous within. Disk annular, slightly wrinkled. 
Stamens as in P, Dekindtii. Rudimentary ovary very small. Female 
flowers solitary ; peduncle up to 3 lin. long, pubescent. Sepals oblong- 
lanceolate, obtuse, 2} lin. long, 1} lin, broad, distinctly 5-6-nerved oD 
the outside, pubescent. Disk cupular, toothed, glabrous. Ovary 
densely brown-villous; styles 3, connate at the base, lobed, glabrous, 
