Pseudolachnostylis.| cXXII. EUPHORBIACER (HUTCHINSON). 673 
lobes rather thick. Fruit globose, 3 in. in diam.; pericarp about } lin. 
thick, coarsely wrinkled when dry, yellow-drab; endocarp bony and 
very hard, yellow, nearly 3 lin. thick. Seeds ellipsoid, shining, with a 
yellowish strophiole at the base, longitudinally striate, 3} lin. long, 
21 lin. broad. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Salanda, Fischer, 287! Usambiro, 
Stuhlmann, 853! Portuguese East Africa: Gazaland; Lower Umswirizwi River, 
Swynnerton, 151! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; River Shire, Kirk! 
Mungazi, Kirk! Msolo, Buchanan, 269! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 
227! 409! Tanganyika, Scott-Hiliot, 8716! Rhodesia: Matoppo Hills, Gibds, 276! 
Rogers, 5834! Victoria, Monro, 724! Bechuanaland: Palapye, Passarge, 90! 
4. P. Dekindtii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 20. A shrub or 
small tree 9-15 ft. high; young branchlets densely brown-pubescent or 
tomentose. Leaves lanceolate or oblong, slightly narrowed to an obtuse 
apex, rounded and slightly unequal at the base, 14-24 in. long, 4-14 in. 
broad, thinly coriaceous, pilose with rather long scattered hairs on 
both surfaces, yellowish-green above when dry, rather browner below ; 
lateral nerves 6-8 on each side, very faint on both surfaces; petiole 
1-2 lin. long, tomentose; stipules somewhat oblanceolate or lanceolate, 
membranous, pubescent, deciduous, 2 lin. long. Male flowers in 
axillary pedunculate few-flowered clusters; peduncle 4-5 lin. long, 
tomentose; flowers subsessile in each cluster; bracts varying from 
ovate-lanceolate to subulate, nearly 14 lin. long, with a pubescent mid- 
rib on the back, membranous towards the margin. Sepals 5, ovate, 
obtuse, entire, 24 lin. long, 1} lin. broad, slightly coriaceous, glabrous 
mside, pubescent outside. Disk annular, fleshy, glabrous. Staminal 
column 1 lin. long, glabrous; filaments free for half their length ; 
anthers 1 lin. long, glabrous. Rudimentary ovary tripartite ; segments 
erect, slender, glabrous. Female flowers axillary, solitary, pedunculate, 
bibracteate at the base; peduncle about 2 lin. long, densely pubescent 
or tomentose; bracts resembling the stipules. Sepals as in the male. 
visk annular, closely clasping the base of the ovary, fleshy, 1ather 
tregularly toothed, glabrous. Ovary depressed-globose, densely villous, 
1 lin. in’ diam. ; styles 3, slightly connate at the base, glabrous, 
bilobed, lobes diverging. Unripe fruits subglobose, with a few long 
Scattered hairs, shining, pale yellow.—Cleistanthus sp. nov.? Hiern 
in Cat. Afr, Pl, Welw. i. 956.  Pseudolachnostylis maprouneafolia, 
Pax in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 285, not of Pax in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxvii, 20, 
Ww Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; forests of Morro de Lopollo, 5500 ft. 
Rewiteet, 12521 Benguella, Dekindt, 8491 Gossweiler, 2014! at the Chitanda 
iver, below Goudkopje, Baum, 154! 
Mozamb, Distr. Rhodesia: Victoria Falls, Allen, 164! 166! Rogers, 
' 15 miles north of Victoria Falls, Seiner, 113! Pemba, between Broken Hill 
and Livingstone, Rogers, 8563! Livingstone, Rogers, 7220! 7240! 
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