Erythrococca. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEA (PRAIN). 855 
and distinctly foveolate-resiculate testa.—Prain in Ann, Bot. xxv 
10, 
Nile Land. Uganda: Kaihura, on Lake Albert (a stunted form with small 
leaves), Scott-Elliot, 8033! Ankole; marsh to west of Lake Victoria, Scott-Elliot, 
7449! British East Africa: at Lake Nakuro, 6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6793! 
Duruma River, Kassner, 301! Nairobi, Linton, 159! 
South Central, Belgian Congo: northern shore of Lake Albert Edward, 
Mildbraed, 1935! 
Mozamb. Distr. (German East Africa: Bukoba; Karagwe, 4000-6000 ft., 
Stuhlmann, 1760! Scott-Elliot, 8159 ! Ruanda; Mugarura Island in Lake Kiwa, 
Mildbraed, 1112! 
Very nearly allied to E. bongensis. 
5. E, olacifolia, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 89. Shrub; twigs 
glabrous ; bud-scales persistent. Leaves petioled, membranous, ovate- 
lanceolate, obtuse, base wide-cuneate, margin crenate, 23-3 in. long, 
1-1} in. wide, dark green, glabrous; petiole sparingly pubescent, 
$-} in. long; stipules accrescent, mammillate or spinulose. Flowers 
minute, males in short-peduncled glomerules with pubescent rhachis ; 
peduncles slender, sparingly pubescent, } in. long; pedicels glabrous, 
$ in. long; females in distinctly peduncled glomerules; peduncles 
nearly glabrous, } in. long; pedicels rather rigid, glabrous, one-fourth 
the length of the males. Male calyx green, glabrous, globose in bud ; 
lobes 3, thinly membranous. Stamens usually 12; outer 8, the rest 
central; filaments longer than the anthers; glands minute, glabrous, 
5 ovate, subcompressed, free, in an extra-staminal ring, occasionally 
one or more absent or replaced by a stamen; the rest rhomboid, inter- 
staminal ; filaments of the outer series each with a pair of adnate basal 
glands. Female calyx smaller than the male; lobes 3, minutely ciliate. 
Ovary adpressed-strigose, 3-celled; stigmas free, linear, patulous, 
fimbriate-laciniate throughout. Disk of 3 discrete linear-ovate scales 
as long as the ovary. Capsule usually by abortion 2-coccous, didymous, 
or 1-coecous ; cocci sparingly setose, } in. across. Seeds with red aril 
and minutely foveolate-reticulate testa.—Prain in Ann. Bot. xxv. 611. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Toro; Bukarungu, on Lake Ruisamba, 2900 ft., 
Bagshawe, 1191 | 
_ Very nearly allied to E. rigidifolia, but with thinner leaves, their nerves 
slightly elevated beneath, a more or less compl te extra-staminal ring of glands, a 
densely strigose ovary and sparingly setose capsu'e. 
6. E. Paxii, Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 212, t. 3. Shrub; 
twigs glabrous; bud-scales persistent. Leaves short-petioled, mem- 
ranous, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, subacute, base cuneate, margin 
‘renate, 1-2 in. long, }-} in. wide, pale green, often purplish when 
young, glabrous; petiole glabrous, }-} in. long; stipules accrescent, 
usually umbonate or spinulose. Flowers minute, males in peduncled 
glomerules with glabrous rhachis; peduncles slender, glabrous, $-} in. 
long ; pedicels glabrous, ;/,-} in. long; females fewer, their pedicels 
rather shorter than in the males. Male calyx pale green, glabrous, 
