Erythrococea. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACE® (PRATN). 859 
strongly spinescent. Flowers minute, in peduncled narrow spike-like 
racemes: peduncles }-4 in. long, sparingly pubescent; rhachis up to 
6 in. long, sparingly pubescent ; pedicels glabrous, males 5/5 in. long, 
clustered and sometimes towards the base of the raceme on distant 
minute 6-10-flowered spikelets, females ;1, in. long, solitary, very rarely 
towards the base of the raceme 2 to a bract. Male calyx green, 
pubescent at the apex, globose in bud; lobes 4, occasionally 5, mem- 
branous, divided beyond the middle; tube wide campanulate. Stamens 
usually 12; outer 6, the rest central ; filaments longer than the anthers ; 
glands relatively large, as long as the filaments, hirsute, all narrow 
oblong ; 12 outer united at the base in pairs, but the pairs free, in an 
extra-staminal ring, the rest inter-staminal. Female calyx smaller 
than the male, 3-lobed ; lobes ciliate. Ovary glabrous, 3- (very rarely 2-) 
celled ; stigmas free, linear, patulous, fimbriate-laciniate throughout. 
Disk of 3, rarely 2, ovate-oblong discrete scales, twice as long as the 
calyx-lobes. Capsule usually 3-coccous, sometimes 2-coccous, didymous, 
occasionally by abortion 1-coccous ; cocci } in. across. Seed with a red aril 
lobed at the apex and not quite enveloping the seed, and with a finely 
foveolate-reticulate testa.—Prain in Ann. Bot. xxv. 615. EZ. aculeata, 
De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. FI. Congo, i. 50, and Relig. Dewevr. 209 ; 
Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 491, partly ; not of Benth. 
aa Lower Guinea. French Congo: Oubangi; Krebidje, Fort Sibut, Chevalier, 
aes 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Equatorial district; Coquilhatville, 
Dewevre, 692! 
A very distinct species. 
13. EB. Laurentii, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 186. Shrub; 
twigs glabrous; bud-scales persistent. Leaves short-petioled, mem- 
branous, ovate, acutely acuminate, base cuneate, margin faintly crenate, 
3 in. long, 14 in. wide, dark green, glabrous ; petiole stout, 5 in. long, 
glabrous ; stipules accrescent, very strongly spinescent. Flowers 
minute, in short-peduncled narrow spike-like racemes; peduncles ¢ in. 
long and rhachis up to 3 in. long very sparingly pubescent ; pedicels 
glabrous, males not seen, females z' in. long, solitary, jointed at the 
€. Male calyx not seen. Female calyx small, 3-lobed ; lobes ciliate. 
Ovary glabrous, 3-celled; stigmas free, linear, patulous, fim briate- 
laciniate throughout. Disk of 3 ovate-oblong discrete scales twice as 
long as the calyx-lobes. Capsule not seen.—Prain in Ann. Bot. xxv. 
615. Z. aculeata, De Wild. Miss. E. Laurent, 129; Th. & Hél. Durand, 
Syll. FI. Congol. 491, partly: not of Benth. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Lie, on the Aruwimi River, Laurent ! 
A very distinct species, which differs very markedly in foliage both from 
. subspicata and E. Poggeophyton, but as regards female flowers agrees with the 
ormer, 
id. B. Poggeophyton, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 187. 
Shrub ; twigs pubescent, at length nearly glabrous; bud-scales de- 
Ciduous. Leaves short-petioled, membranous, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
