Mildbredia.) CXXII, EUPHORBIACEZ (HUTCHINSON). 799 
but in the female plant of Mildbredia paniculata only the terminal flower of each 
eymule is fully developed, the lateral ones being aborted, the inflorescence then 
resembling a panicle. 
Leaves 3-7-lobed or sometimes a few on each shoot un- 
divided ; stamens 10 ‘ Z ‘ 
Leaves all undivided; stamens 15-20 (not known in 
4, carpinifolia). 
Young leaves sparingly setulose with simple or sub- 
simple hairs on the upper surface (sometimes only 
on the nerves), stellate-pubescent below, at length 
glabrous or nearly so : . c . 
Young leaves pubescent with stellate hairs or nearly 
glabrous above, rather densely and shortly stel- 
late-pubescent below when mature. 
Male peduncles 4-6 lin. long; female peduncles 
i. M. klaineana. 
2. M. paniculata. 
2-23 in. long, few-flowered 5 : . & M. fallax. 
Male peduncles 14-2} in. long; female peduncles 
about 1 in. long, 1-3-flowered . : . - 4. M. carpinifolia. 
1, M. klaineana, Hutchinson. A shrub; young branchlets stel- 
late-puberulous or tomentellous. Leaves undivided and oblong-elliptic 
or mostly 2-3- (rarely up to 7-) lobed to near the middle, acutely acumi- 
nate, cordate at the base, 2-8 in. long, 1}-6 in. broad, repand-dentate or 
denticulate, rigidly membranous, setulose with simple hairs only on the 
nerves above, shortly stellate-pubescent below, becoming nearly glabrous, 
slightly glossy and strongly reticulate on the upper surface, duller 
below, digitately 5-7-nerved from the base, nerves prominent on both 
surfaces ; transverse nerves very distinct and subparallel ; petiole 3-44 
in. long, subterete, pubescent or puberulous; stipules linear, 34 lin. 
long, tomentellous, soon falling off. Male inflorescence slightly supra- 
axillary towards the apex of the shoots, very slender, up to 10 in. long, 
puberulous; bracts linear, 2-3 lin. long, puberulous. Sepals 5, broadly 
ovate-elliptic, rounded at both ends, 1} lin. long, 1 lin. broad, mem- 
branous, 1-3-nerved, sparingly stellate-pubescent outside, glabrous 
within. Petals 5, suborbicular, 1 lin. in diam., glabrous. Disk-glands 
5, Opposite the sepals, rounded, fleshy, glabrous. Stamens 10, in two 
Series, inserted on a hairy receptacle ; filaments 1} lin. long, glabrous ; 
anthers rounded. Female inflorescences slightly supra-axillary, long- 
pedunculate, few-flowered, 54-64 in. long ; rhachis and pedicels stellate- 
tomentellous ; bracts subulate-lanceolate, acute, up to } in. long, shortly 
pubescent ; cymules about } in. long, about 3-flowered, only the terminal 
flower developing into fruit; pedicels about 1} lin. long. Sepals 
lanceolate, subacute, about 1} lin. long and } lin. broad, tomentellous 
outside, glabrous within. Petals ovate or elliptic-ovate, obtuse, 1} lin. 
long, 1 lin. broad, striate, glabrous. Disk deeply 5-lobed, glabrous ; 
lobes rounded. Ovary slightly trilobed, densely setose or tomentose ; 
styles spreading, bi- or tripartite, about ? lin. long, glabrous, Capsule 
deeply trilobed, nearly } in. across, loculicidal, finely muricate; styles 
Subpersistent. Seeds broadly ellipsoid, 24 lin. long, mottled, smooth.— 
Plesiatropha klaineana, Pierre MSS. and Icon. 
