858 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEH (PRAIN). | Erythrococea. 
connate in a lobed cup; the rest inter-staminal. Female flower and 
fruit not seen.—Prain in Ann. Bot. xxv. 613. 
Mozamb. Distr. Nyasaland: Lower Shire; Chiromo, Scott-Elliot, 2795! 
A very distinct species, in facies not unlike #. aculeata, but with smaller leaves, 
very different receptacular glands, and more numerous stamens. 
11. E. aculeata, Penth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 506. Shrub, 3-8 ft. 
high; twigs glabrous; bud-scales deciduous. Leaves short-petioled, 
membranous, ovate or oblong, acuminate, base cuneate, margin faintly 
crenate, 14-2 in. long, 3-1 in. wide, medium green, paler beneath, 
glabrous; petiole glabrous, }-} in. long; stipules accrescent, very 
strongly spinescent. Flowers minute, in short-peduncled racemes ; 
peduncles and rhachis pubescent; pedicels glabrous, males 4 in. long, 
jointed high up; females shorter, solitary. Male calyx green, glabrous, 
globose in bud ; lobes 3, rarely 4, rather firm, divided to the middle; 
tube campanulate. Stamens usually 6, sometimes 7-11; outer 5, the 
rest central ; filaments longer than the anthers; glands relatively large, 
as long as the stamens, hirsute, all rhomboid ; 5 outer free, in an extra- 
staminal ring; the rest inter-staminal. Female calyx smaller than the 
male, usually 3-lobed, sometimes 2-lobed. Ovary strigose, 3-celled, 
less often 2-celled; stigmas free, linear, patulous, fimbriate-laciniate 
throughout. Disk of 3 or 2 short broad discrete scales. Capsule 
sometimes 3-coccous, less often 2-coccous, didymous, frequently by 
abortion 1-coccous ; cocci sparsely setose, + in. across. Seed with bril- 
liant scarlet aril and distinctly foveolate-reticulate testa.—Miill. Arg. 
in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 791; Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 87. Z. aculeata, 
var. acutissima, N. E. Br. ex Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXVI. 
114, and in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 649. 2. anomala, Prain in anes 
Bot. xxv. 614. Adelia anomala, Juss. ex Poir. Encye. Suppl. i, 1382; 
A. Juss. Euphorb. Gen. Tent. 32. Mercurialis aculeata, Baill. Adan- 
sonia, ili. 173. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: neighbourhood of Boquet, Heudelot, we 
Sierra Leone: without precise locality, Smeathman! <Afzelius! Vogel, 16 : 
Bagru River, Mann, 879! Scarcies; near Wallia, Scott-Elliot, 4790! Limba; 
Makende, Scott-Elliot, 5694! Liberia: near Monrovia, Whyte! Ivory Coast: 
Bouroukrou, Chevalier, 16579! Agnichy Valley; Capiékrou, Chevalier, 17103! 
Sassandra; Soubre, Chevalier, 17990! Southern Nigeria: Western Lagos, 
Rowland! Wbadan, Schlechter, 13012! Olokemeji, Foster, 285! Oban, Talbot : 
Cameroons: Victoria, Winkler, 115! Johann-Albrechtshohe, Staudt, 466! 
A very ‘distinct species. The suggested variety acutissima hardly differs 
from the original type. Heudelot notes that this plant is highly reputed as @ 
vermifuge. 
12. E. subspicata, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 18°. I 
twigs glabrous; bud-scales deciduous. Leaves petioled, membranes 
ovate-oblong, acuminate, base rounded or cuneate, sometimes ye 
margin denticulate, teeth often rather large, and sometimes iT is 
lobulate, 4-6 in. long, 14-2} in. wide, dark green, giahee Fae 
slender, 4-] in. long, sparsely pubescent; stipules accrescen; 
