828 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEX (PRAIN). [ Zannodia. 
velvety, especially on the nerves beneath; petiole pubescent, $-1} in. 
long; stipules caducous. Flowers in subspicate racemes, 2-24 in. long, 
terminating the leafy twigs; males in pairs or solitary, females solitary ; 
male pedicel 1-1} lin. long, female pedicel 24 lin. long; bracts lanceo- 
late, membranous, very small; bracteoles minute. Male: Calyx ovoid, 
obtuse, closed in bud, splitting into 2-5 valvate segments, pubescent 
outside with spreading hairs. Petals 5, less often 4, orbicular, shortly 
clawed, much shorter than the calyx-segments, pubescent on the inner 
face with long viscid hairs. Stamens 8-12, outer 5, less often 4, sur- 
rounded by a ring of glands alternating with the petals and filaments 
of the outer series; filaments considerably longer than anthers, clothed 
in the lower half with long viscid hairs. Female calyx ovoid, much larger 
than the male; lobes divided nearly to the base, subspathulate, 3 larger 
than the remaining 2, pubescent externally. Petals much shorter than 
the calyx-lobes. | Ovary sparingly setose. Capsule 3-coccous.—Holstia 
tenuifolia, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 220. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Lofia River. 2000 ft., Goetze, 442! 
Portuguese East Africa: Boruma, Menyharth, 794! British Central Africa: 
Nyasaland: Shire Highlands; Ruo, Scott-Elliot, 8664! 
Var. glabrata, Prainin Journ. Bot. 1912, 128. Leaves oblong, acute, base rounded 
or truncate, 3-4 in. long, 14-14 in. wide, quite glabrous on both surfaces. Male 
flowers as in the type. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: East Usambara ; between Lungusa 
and Derema, 1500-2000 ft., Hngler, 444! Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique; 
Gorongoza, on the M‘Kulumazi River, Vasse, 440! 
The leaves of this variety are exactly like those of 7’. sessiliflora ; the flowers are 
exactly asin the type. 
3. T. sessiliflora, Prain in Journ. Bot. 1912, 128. A shrub, es 
high; twigs glabrescent or glabrous. Leaves distinctly poroled ee 
branous, oblong, acute or acuminate, base rounded or truncate, ge 
entire, 3} in. long, 13 in. wide; nerves 4—5 on each side, the Beis a 
quite basal, glabrous when mature, dark green ; petiole glabrous, al 
long ; stipules caducous. Flowers in spike-like racemes 4—5 in lone 1) 
minating the leafy twigs, males 3 or more to each bract, rather ce 
glomerate ; pedicels very short; bracts ovate, concave, minute He 
teoles very minute. Male calyx ovoid, subacute, closed in bud, sp ‘ id 
into 2-3 valvate segments, externally sparingly pubescent. Peta "4 
very short, orbicular, not clawed. Stamens 8-10, 5 outer, surroun = 
by a ring of glands alternate with the petals and filaments of the ou . 
series ; filaments shorter than the anthers, glabrous. — Female flowe 
not seen.—AHolstia sessiliflora, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xlili. 220. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Buiti, Holst, 237° 
48. AGROSTISTACHYS, Dalz.; Benth. et Hook. 
f. Gen. Pl. iii. 302. 
Flowers dicecious, dichlamydeous. Male: Calyx globose, — 5, 
bud, splitting into 2-5 membranous valvate lobes. Petals usu y 
