Micrococea. | OXXII. EUPHORBIACE® (PRAIN). 879. 
axillary, 2-3 in. long; rhachis pubescent. Male: Calyx globose, 
minutely apiculate and closed in bud, under } lin. wide;. segments 3, 
membranous, valvate; pedicels shorter than the calyx. Stamens 
usually 6, 2-seriate, rarely 3, 1-seriate, occasionally up to 20, several- 
seriate ; receptacular glands narrow-oblong, all inter-staminal. Kemale: 
Calyx 3-partite, less often 4-partite; lobes imbricate. Disk of 2-4, 
usually 8, linear hypogynous staminodiform scales, about as long as the 
calyx-lobes. Ovary strigose, usually 3-celled, occasionally 2- or 4-celled ; 
styles very short, linear, spreading, fimbriate-laciniate throughout. 
Capsule strigose, 2 lin. wide, breaking up into 2-4, usually 3, 2-valved 
cocci. Seeds under 1 lin. long, pale brown or pinkish, completely 
enveloped in a very thin aril; testa deeply foveolate-reticulate.— Pax in 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 238, and in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 105; 
De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 50 and ii. 57, and Reliq. 
Dewevr. 209; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 306; De 
Wild. Miss. E. Laurent, i. 129, and Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 
279; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 492; Prain in Ann. Bot. 
xxv. 631. Tragia Mercurialis, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed.-i. 980. Mercurialis 
alternifolia, Lam. Encycl. iv. 120; Baill. Etude gén. Euphorb. 490, 
and Adansonia, i. 76. Claowylon Mercurialis, Thwaites,. Enum. PI. 
Zeyl. 271; Mill: Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 790; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. v. 412; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 976.> 
Upper Guinea. Senegal: without precise locality, Perrottet,715! French . 
Guinea: Conakry, Maclaud, 80! Dybowski,38! Lecard, 198! Sierra-Leone: near 
Regent, Scott-Elliot, 4117! and without precise locality, Afzelius, 419! Liberia: 
Monrovia and Grand Bassa, at Fishtown, Dinklage, 1659! Togo: Lome, Warnecke, 
187! Misahéhe, Baumann, 258! Bismarckburg, Buettner,321! Northern Nigeria: 
Mount Patteh, Vogel, 194! Nupe, Barter, 1494! Lokoja, Dalziel / Cameroons: 
Kriegschiffhafen, Schlechter, 12394! Batanga, Dinklage, 647! 648! Bates, 122! 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Sambar, near Massowa, Hildebrandt, 736! Saati, 
470 ft., Schweinfurth, 22! Schweinfurth & Riva, 487! Abyssinia: without 
precise locality, Schimper! Ehrenberg. Niamniam: Mbomo on the River Lehsi, 
Schweinfurth, 3997 ! Uganda: Entebbe, 3900 ft., Brown, 25! 
Lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea: Benito, Guiral! Nkolentangan, Tessmann, 
416! Gaboon: Kringe, Thollon, 163! Ogowe, Thollon, 419! French Congo: on the 
Nyoma, Lecomte, 109! Brazzaville, Thollon, 542! Lower Congo: Boma; Zambi, 
Dupuis, Mayumbe; Bingila, Dupuis. Matadi; near Matadi, Laurent. Stanley 
Pool district; near Yumbi, Laurent, 421; near Kwamouth, Bieler ; near Dembo, 
Gillet, Vanderyst ; Kisantu, Gillet. Kwango district; Kiolo, Laurent. Angola: 
Pungo Andongo; near Pedra Cabondo, Welwitsch, 395! Golungo Alto; near Sobati, 
Welwitsch, 394! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Lake Leopold II. district; Kutu, Laurent ; 
Kiri, Laurent. Aruwimi district; near Bena-Kamba, Dewévre, 189; Limbutu, 
Laurent. Uelle district ; Paku, Seret! Kasai district; Mukenge, Pogge, 1332! 
Eastern Prov.; near Nyangwe, Dewévre, 1093. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar: Hildebrandt, 1038! German East Africa : 
Dar-es-Salaam, Stuhlmann, 8526! Madossi, Stuhlmann, 8119! Usaramo, Stuhlmann, 
ie British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Elephant Marsh, on the Lower Shire, 
cott ! 
Also in Tropical Asia and in Madagascar, 
