Hasskarlia. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACE (PRAIN). 847 
Welw. i. 974; De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me sér. i. 47 ; 
Pax in De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 51; De Wild. Miss. 
FE. Laurent, i. 131, and Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 284; Stapf 
in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 649; Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soe. xxxvii. 
212; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 491. Geloniwm angolense, 
Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 233. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: Fouta Jallon; Heudelot,835! Sierra Leone: 
Falaba ; near Berria, Scott-Elliot, 5232! 5430! Scarcies River, Seott-Hlliot, 4725! 
5412! near Kukuna, Scott-Elliot, 2425! Samu; near N’tunga, Scott-Elliat, 4332! 
Limba; near Bafodeya, Scott-Elliot, 5557! Liberia; Grand Bassa; Fishtown, 
Dinklage, 1710! Monrovia, Whyte ! Sinoe Basin, Whyte! Ivory Coast ; Bingerville, 
Abidgean and Dabou, Chevalier, 15321! 16209! 16219! 17214! Brumoukrou, 
Chevalier, 16862! Zaranou, Chevalier, 16268! 17651! between Guidako and the 
Zozro, Chevalier, 19054! Togo: Misahéhe, Baumann, 509! Southern Nigeria: 
Brass River, Barter, 1848! Cameroons: Batanga, Dinklage, 1259! 1268! 
Nile Land. Uganda: Central Prev.; Buvuma Island, in Lake Victoria, 
Bagshawe, 661! 
Lower Guinea. St. Thomas Island: at 2000 ft., Mann, 1058! Welwitsch, 
358! Spanish Guinea: Nkolentangan, TZessmann, B5!  Gaboon: Cristal 
Mountains, 7’rilles, 35! Libreville, Klaine, 2088! French Congo: Mayumba 
Forests, Zhollon, 1259! Oubangi River; Modgaka, Thollon, 38! Lower Congo: 
Stanley Pool district, near Leopoldville, Gillet ; Kisantu, Gillet. Angola: Golungo 
Alto, Welwitsch, 359 ! Cazengo, Gossweiler ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Lake Leopold II. district ; [bali, Lawrent ; 
Mfini, Laurent. Equatorial Province: Eala, Pynaert, 811, 1786. Bangala district : 
New Antwerp, Pynaert,10! Eastern Province; Mawambi, Kasanga, Mildbraed, 
3105! 3115! Irumu, Songola, Mildbraed, 2996! Ponthierville, Dewevre, 1132. 
Kasai district ; Kondue, Laurent ; Ifuta, Laurent. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Bukoba, Stahlmann, 972! 
Mildbraed, 44! 
2. H. oppositifolia, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 81. Small tree ; 
twigs glabrous; bark greyish-green. Leaves opposite, distichous, short- 
petioled, firmly membranous, oblong, caudate-acuminate, base cuneate, 
narrowing to the petiole, margin shortly and distantly toothed, 7 im. 
long, 2-23 in. wide, bright green, somewhat polished and glabrous on 
both surfaces ; petiole 5 lin. long. Male: Calyx globose in bud, yel- 
lowish, under 1 lin. wide; flowers clustered in dense cylindric pendulous 
spikes 21-23 in. long. Female flower and fruit not seen. 
Upper Guinea. Liberia: Monrovia, Dinklage, 2213! Sinoe Basin, Whyte! 
‘outhern Nigeria: Oban, Talbot, 640! 
Lower Guinea. French Congo: N’Djolé, Ogowé, Thollon, 714! 
Perhaps only a variety of H. didymostemon. 
4. ERYTHROCOCCA, Benth.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 308. 
Flowers dicecious, apetalous. Male: Calyx globose, often apiculate, 
rarely conical, closed in bud, splitting into 3-4 valvate lobes. Stamens 
2-60, usually intermixed with small generally hirsute glands and some- 
times surrounded by a ring of similar rather larger free or connate 
glands; filaments free, longer or shorter than the anthers; anthers 
