856 OXXII. EUPHORBIACEE (PRAIN). [ Hrythrococea. 
globose in bud; lobes usually 4, sometimes 3, rather firm. Stamens 15 
or 18 or 21; outer 8-10, the rest central; filaments longer than the 
anthers; glands minute, glabrous or sparingly hirsute, 2-3 outer 
extra-staminal, never forming a complete ring; the rest rhomboid, 
inter-staminal ; filaments of the outer series each usually with a pair 
of adnate basal glands. Female calyx smaller than the male; lobes 3, 
glabrous. Ovary glabrous, 3-celled; stigmas free, linear, patulous, 
fimbriate-laciniate throughout. Disk of 3 discrete ovate scales. Capsule 
usually by abortion 2-coccous, didymous, but often 3-coccous; coccl 
fin. across. Seeds with purplish aril and distinctly foveolate-reticulate 
testa.—Prain in Ann. Bot. xxv. 611. 
Wile Land. Uganda: Ankole; near the River Rufua, Bagshawe, 513! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 5000 ft., 
Volhens, 2354! 
Very nearly allied to #. Fiseheri, differing mainly in the more numerous stamens 
with an incomplete extra-staminal ring and in the more shortly peduncled male 
glomerules, 
7. E. Fischeri, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 88. Shrub; twigs 
slender, glabrous; bud-scales persistent. Leaves petioled, membranous, 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, base cuneate, margin crenate, 2-3 in. long, 
4-1} in. wide, dark green, often purplish when young, glabrous ; petiole 
glabrous, 4-3 in. long; stipules accrescent, usually spinulose. Flowers 
minute, males in peduncled glomerules with glabrous rhachis ; peduncles 
slender, glabrous, up to } in. long, usually produced and with a smaller 
terminal glomerule ; pedicels glabrous, up to } in. long. Male calyx 
green, glabrous, globose in bud; lobes 8, rather firm. Stamens 9-12 ; 
outer 6-8, the rest central ; filaments longer than the anthers; glands 
minute, sparingly hirsute, 5-6 outer somewhat compressed, more Or less 
connate in an extra-staminal ring; the rest rhomboid, inter-staminal. 
Female flower and fruit not seen.—Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 238; 
Prain in Ann. Bot. xxv. 611. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: without precise locality, Fischer; al! 
This, owing to its produced rhachis, forms a link between the species with 
glomerulate and those with racemose flowers. 
8. E. abyssinica, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 87. Shrub 10 ft. 
high ; twigs at first pubescent, at length glabrous; bud-scales deciduous. 
Leaves petioled, finely membranous, oblong, acuminate, base cuneate, 
margin crenate-serrate, 2-3 in. long, 1-1} in. wide, occasionally 4-5 in. 
long, 2-2} in. wide, dark green, often purplish when young, glabrous ; 
petiole glabrous, 4-4 in. long; stipules accrescent, umbonate or spinulose. 
Flowers minute, in short-peduncled racemes which are occasionally pantcu- 
late; peduncles and rhachis glabrous ; pedicels glabrous, male $ in. long, 
female as long, solitary or in pairs. Male calyx green, glabrous, globose 
in bud; lobes 3, rather firm. Stamens usually 8; outer Dy the rest 
central; filaments longer than the anthers; glands minute, sparingly 
hirsute; 5 outer rather flat, in an extra-staminal ring; the rest rhom- 
boid inter-staminal, Female calyx smaller than the male, 3-lobed. 
