690 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON). _— [Lingelsheimia. 
30. LINGELSHEIMIA, Pax in Eng]. Jahrb. xliii. 317. 
Flowers monecious or diccious. Petals absent. Male flowers : 
Sepals 4 or 5, imbricate. Stamens 8-25, 2- to several-seriate, inserted 
on and between the lobes or folds of the disk, lobes frequently surround- 
ing the base of each filament and resembling a small perianth ; filaments 
free ; anthers erect; cells parallel or diverging at the base, dehiscing 
longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary not present. Female flowers: 
Sepals 4-7. Disk hypogynous, annular, entire or crenulate. Ovary 
2-3-celled ; styles short or absent, when present bifid; stigmas some- 
times sessile and bilobed; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruits (where known) 
globose, indehiscent ; pericarp thick, crustaceous ; endocarp hard. 
Seeds solitary by abortion; albumen copious, fleshy ; embryo straight; 
cotyledons flat and broad, cordate at the base.—Shrubs. Leaves alter- 
nate, coriaceous or chartaceous, entire or toothed; stipules entre. 
Male and female flowers axillary, fasciculate, borne on the young leafy 
branchlets, males pedicellate, females pedicellate or subsessile, 
Species 5, endemic. 
Flowers monecious =. ; ; ; ‘ 5 . 1. L. frutescens. 
Flowers dicecious. 
Pedicels of the male flowers very slender, 2-3 in. long 2. L. capillipes. 
Pedicels of the male flowers less than + in. in length. 
One half of the leaf-blade produced below the other 
at the base. : 
Flowers pedicellate ; sepals glabrous outside . 38. L. gilgiana. 
Flowers ses:ile; sepals tomentellous outside . 4. LZ. tessmannana. 
Both halves of the leaf-blade produced at the base to pees 
the same point on the petiole . . . 5. L. parvifolia. 
1. L. frutescens, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 317. A shrub up to 
7 ft. high; branches slightly angular, glabrous; flowering branchlets 
spreading, glabrous. Leaves oblong, oblong-oblanceolate or obovate- 
elliptic, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, cuneate at the gett 
13-5 in. long, 3-2 in. broad, thinly chartaceous, entire, glabrous an 
dull on both surfaces; lateral nerves 6-8 on each side, spreading; 
becoming fainter and looped near the margin, distinct on both surfaces, 
prominent below; veins very lax; petiole 2-4 lin. long, ean ; 
stipules peltate, persistent, ovate, about 1 lin. Jong, coriaceous, glabro ve 
Flowers moneecious, in axillary fascicles on the young shoots, as le 
three subsessile females surrounded by a few pedicellate males. rea 
flowers: Sepals 5, ovate, obtuse, $ lin. long, glabrous. Stamens a ; 
15; filaments glabrous; anthers small. Disk lobed on the opr 
surface, glabrous. Female flowers mature before the males in We 
cluster: Sepals 6-7, ovate, obtuse, subcoriaceous, glabrous. pert? 
annular, fleshy, crenulate, glabrous. Ovary ellipsoid, lobed, glabrous, 
styles thick, bilobed, lobes recurved, glabrous. Fruit not known. 
; ubi 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Bulika, between Mawambi and Awakub, 
Mildbr aed, 3203! 
