864 CXXII. EUPHORBIACE& (PRAIN). | Lrythrococea. 
hirsute, $ in. long; stipules unmodified, hyaline-scarious, minute. 
Flowers small, in peduncled racemes; peduncles slender, glabrous, 
few-flowered, usually }-} in. (occasionally 1 in.) long; pedicels 
glabrous, very short. Male calyx green, glabrous, globose in bud; 
lobes 4, membranous. Stamens 24-30, usually 27; outer 10, the rest 
central ; filaments longer than the anthers; glands minute, hirsute, 
rhomboid or linear, all inter-staminal. Female calyx smaller than the 
male, deeply 2-3-lobed. Ovary glabrous or with a few special hairs, 
2- (rarely 3-) celled; stigmas free, linear, patulous, fimbriate-laciniate 
throughout. Disk of 2 ovate discrete scales. Capsule 2-coccous, 
didymous; cocci } in. across. Seeds with a scarlet aril and faintly 
foveolate-reticulate testa.—Claoxylon pauciflorum, Mill. Arg. in Journ. 
Bot. 1864, 333; DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 778; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 
i. 975. 
Lower Guinea. Loango: near Chinchoxo, Soyauz, 29! Angola: Loanda; 
near Musaque do Sul and above Loanda, Welwitsch, 400! near Loanda, Gossweiler, 
195! Musaque, near the English cemetery, Gossweiler, 1519! Malange, Gossweiler, 
452! 
23. E. polyandra, Prain in Ann. Bot. xxv. 618. Shrub, usually 
5-6 ft., occasionally 15-16 ft. high; twigs glabrous; bud-scales per- 
sistent. Leaves short-petioled, membranous, ovate, acute or acuminate, 
base wide-cuneate or rounded, margin obscurely toothed or subentire, 
3-5 in. long, 1}-2} in. wide, dark green, or when young dark purple, 
glabrous; petiole glabrous or with a few hairs, } in. long; stipules 
unmodified, hyaline-scarious, minute. Flowers small, in peduncled 
racemes ; peduncles slender, glabrous, few-flowered, males $ to 1 in., 
females up to 2 in. long; pedicels glabrous, } in. long. Male calyx 
purplish, glabrous, globose in bud; lobes 3, membranous. Stamens 
10-13; outer 6-9, the rest central ; filaments longer than the anthers ; 
glands minute, glabrous, ovoid, all inter-staminal. Female calyx larger 
than the male, deeply 2-lobed or casually 3-lobed. Ovary glabrous, 
2- (rarely 3-) celled ; stigmas on a very short style, ovate-lanceolate, 
divaricate, margins incised-lobulate throu iout. Disk of 2 (rarely 3) 
wide-ovate discrete scales. Capsules usually 2-coccous, didymous, or by 
abortion 1-coccous ; cocci } in. across. <ceds with a red aril and deeply 
foveolate reticulate testa.—Claoxylon polyandrum, Pax and K. Hoffm. 
in Engl. Jahrb. xlv. 237. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Kwai, Albers, 36! 
Amani, Warnecke, 219! Krénzlin, 2152 ! we 
Most closely allied to E. pauciflorum, of which it is the eastern representatlv 
but with fewer stamens and very different stigmas. 
24. E.membranacea, Prain in Ann. Bot. xxv. 619. Shrub sh: 
high; twigs. softly hispid with tawny spreading hairs; bud-sca se 
persistent. Leaves short-petioled, membranous, oblong-lanceolate ; 
oblong, acuminate, base cuneate or less often rounded, margin sa 
and irregularly toothed, 2-6 in. long, $-2 in. wide, dark green, sy 
hispid, especially on the midrib beneath, with long tawny spreacl 8 
