818 CXXII. EUPHORBIACE% (PRAIN), | Grossera. 
contorted-imbricate, wide-ovate. Stamens 3-seriate, 5 to each whorl, 
on an elongated glabrous receptacle with 2-3 central and terminal; 
base of receptacle surrounded by 5 extra-staminal glands resembling 
sessile much-modified anthers, alternate with stamens of lowest whorl 
and with the petals. Female panicles like the males but with tertiary 
branchlets bearing each a solitary flower, its pedicel ultimately 2 in. 
long. Calyx-lobes imbricate. Petals narrow-oblong, much exceeding 
the calyx-lobes. Ovary glabrous; styles at length spreading, 2-partite 
to the middle. Capsule not seen. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 1805! 3377! 3684! 4227! 
Very nearly allied to G. paniculata, Pax, but readily distinguished by its 
larger flowers with fewer stamens. 
45. MANNIOPHYTON, Mill. Arg.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Pl. iii. 297. 
Flowers dicecious. Petals present. Male flower : Calyx globose aud 
closed in bud, opening valvately and irregularly. Petals connate. 
Disk-glands 5, pilose, alternating with the outer stamens and petals. 
Stamens 15-25, inserted on a pilose convex receptacle ; filaments free; 
anthers erect; cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary 
ovary absent. Female flower: Calyx short, trifid; lobes valvate, soon 
opening. Petals 5, free, imbricate, longer than the calyx. Disk very 
small. Ovary setose, 3-celled; styles bipartite ; branches spreading, 
linear; ovules solitary in each cell. Capsule large, deeply trilobed, 
opening into 2-valved cocci; endocarp thick and hard. Seeds shining, 
with a crustaceous testa; albumen fleshy.—Shrubs or climbers, hispid 
with stellate or simple hairs or scaly. Leaves alternate, long-petiolate, 
entire or 3-5-lobed, 5-7-nerved at the base; tertiary nerves parallel. 
Panicles long and slender, axillary; male flowers shortly pedicellate, 
crowded, the females a little larger and with longer pedicels. 
Monotypic, endemic. 
1. M. africanum, Miill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 531. A shrub or 
climber up to 30 ft. high; branches scabrous with short stellate ee 
Leaves polymorphous, entire and ovate or more or less 2-3-lobed, AP 
in. long, 3-8 in. broad, lobes acutely acuminate, chartaceous or pe 
coriaceous, scabrous with small stellate hairs on both surfaces, yenenesioee 
from the base; tertiary nerves prominent below, parallel, petiole up | 
+ in. long, pubescent with rough stellate hairs; stipules subulate, ie 
about 1} lin. long. Male panicles solitary or 2 or 3 together in t “ 
axils of the upper leaves, slender, up to 10 in. long, clothed han ail 
stellate hairs ; branches slender, up to 3 in. long; braets small ; ae 
cels 3-1 lin. long. Flowers clustered. Calyx-lobes triangular, 3 ila 
long, 1} lin. broad, rusty-setulose outside, glabrous within. —_ 
1} lin. long, glabrous on both sides. Disk-glands very small, setulo® 
inside. Stamens 17-20; filaments free, glabrous. Receptacle tae 
pubescent. Female panicles much smaller, fewer-flowered and 1 
