Lingelsheimia.| cxxtt. EUPHORBIACE® (HUTCHINSON). 691 
2. L. capillipes, Pax in Hngl. Jahrb. xliii. 318. A large shrub; 
young branchlets subterete, glabrous, Leaves oblong-elliptic or elliptic- 
lanceolate, acutely caudate-acuminate, rounded and one side of the blade 
produced slightly below the other at the base, 2-5 in. long, 1-24 in. broad, 
chartaceous, glabrous and somewhat dull on both surfaces, margin 
minutely and obtusely denticulate; lateral nerves 5-8 on each side, 
looped and anastomosing well within the margin, prominent below; 
tertiary nerves close, spreading from the midrib to the lateral nerves, 
prominent below ; petiole 1-2 lin. long, glabrous ; stipules very small, 
deciduous. Flowers dicecious, males geminate or solitary in the leaf- 
axils of the young shoots; pedicel drooping, very slender, 2-3 in. long, 
glabrous. Sepals 5, suborbicular, 24 lin. in diam., coriaceous, glabrous 
on both surfaces, margin shortly ciliolate. Disk fleshy, much lobed over 
the surface, lobes pubescent and encircling the base of each filament, 
simulating a small perianth. Stamens about 25, inserted amongst the 
lobes of the disk; filaments glabrous; anthers oblong, cordate at the 
base, 1 lin. long. Female flowers not known. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Kabroada, in the Ituri forest west of Lake 
Albert, Mildbraed, 3036 ! 
3. L. gilgiana, Hutchinson. A shrub ; branchlets slender, slightly 
suleate, puberulous, nearly glabrous when older. Leaves ovate-elliptic, 
caudate-acuminate, acumen about 4 in. long, rounded and very unequal 
at the base, one half of the blade produced about $ lin. below the other, 
2-3} in. long, 1-14 in. broad, papery, margin minutely crenulate- 
denticulate, glabrous and closely reticulate on both surfaces; midrib 
prominent on the lower side, glabrous ; lateral nerves 4—5 on each side, 
distinctly looped some distance from the margin; veins and veinlets 
very close; petiole very short, hardly 1 lin. long, rather densely pubes- 
cent ; stipules small, ovate. Male flowers 3-4 in each leaf-axil; pedicel 
2 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 4, suborbicular, 1? lin. in diam., glabrous 
outside, margin minutely ciliolate. Stamens about 15; filaments inserted 
aMongst and between the lobes of the disk. Female flowers solitary 
or subsolitary in the axils of the leaves of the young branchlets ; pedicel 
In. long (at least in the young fruit), shortly pubescent. Sepals 4, 
transversely elliptic or rounded, distinctly striate with about eight 
velns, leathery, glabrous except at the minutely ciliolate margin, Disk 
annular, entire, nearly flat, thick, glabrous. Ovary depressed-globose, 
glabrous ; stigmas sessile, reflexed, flattened, bilobed, glabrous. Fruit 
globose, a little more than 3 in. in diam., hispid, light-brown, dull when 
1) > &Xocarp nearly 1 lin. thick, crustaceous ; endocarp very hard, $ lin. 
thick, yellowish-brown. Seeds flattened on the inner side; testa brown 
and reticulate ; cotyledons large, flat, very thin, cordate at the base, 
palmately veined ; albumen copious, fleshy.—Cyclostemon gilgianus, Pax 
in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii, 278, 
l Upper Guinea. Lagos: interior, Millson, 139! Southern Nigeria: without 
ocality, Foster, 353! Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 2349! 
