912 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEE (PRAIN). | Mareya. 
long as the calyx-lobes. Female flowers in the lower nodes, usually 
solitary, sometimes accompanied by 2 or more males. Capsule 
depressed ; cocci 3, subglobose, purplish-brown, 4 lin. wide——Benth. in 
Hook. Ic. Pl. sub t. 1281. M. micrantha, Pax in De Wild. & Durand, 
Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 51, and Relig. Dewevr. ii. 213; Th. & Hél. 
Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 494, partly, excl. the Lusambo specimens. 
M. micrantha, var. leonensis, Mill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 792. 
M. micrantha, var. nitida, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lv. Mém. 
viii. 82. Acalypha leonensis, Benth. in Hook. Niger FI. 504. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 752! French Guinea: Konakry, 
Chevalier, 12165! Maclaud, 170! Dybowski! Fouta Jalon; between Ymbo and 
Kouria, Caille (Chevalier, 14791)! Kouria; near Bowali, Caille (Chevalier, 
14936)! Sierra Leone: various localities, common, Scott-Elliot, 4158! 4697! 
5055! Afzelius! Don! Barter! Vogel, 137! Winwood-Reade!s Smythe! 
Liberia: Grand Bassa, Dinklage, 1848! 1901! near Kakatown, Whyte! Gold 
Coast: Koforidua, Johnson, 447! Cameroons: Victoria, 500 ft., Preuss, 1319! 
Fernando Po: Goderich Bay, Daniell ! 
South Central. Congo State: Aruwimi district; Okanga, Dewévre, 1098! 
Lokandu, Dewevre, 11214! 1122! Eastern Prov.; Rewa, Dewevre, 11404! and 
without precise locality, Dewevre, 1030! 
4. M. acuminata, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 103. Shrub or 
small tree; twigs glabrous. Leaves petioled, thin, obovate-lanceolate, 
abruptly and acutely acuminate, entire, narrowed from beyond the 
middle to the cuneate base, 5-7 in. long, 14-2 in. wide, glabrous on 
both surfaces, dark green; petiole glabrous, } in. long; stipules small, 
deciduous. Spikes numerous, slightly flexuous, rather longer than the 
leaves ; rhachis angular, glabrous; bracts ovate, minute. Male flowers 
not seen. Female flowers throughout the spikes, solitary ; styles quite 
free to the base. Capsule subglobose, 3-sulcate; cocci 3, 2 lin. wide, 
brown. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Libreville, Klaine, 2483! 
5. M. longifolia, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 283. Shrub, 
diecious, 4-9 ft. high; twigs pubescent. Leaves petioled, firm, 
obovate or obovate-lanceolate or oblanceolate, cuspidate or acuminate, 
gradually narrowed from beyond the middle to the narrow-cuneate 
base, distinctly regularly toothed, 6-12 in. long, 14-4 in. broad, 
finely puberulous on the midrib, otherwise glabrous above, minutely 
puberulous beneath, especially on the prominent midrib and 12-20 
pairs of lateral nerves; petiole rather variable, 4-2} in. long, finely 
puberulous, pulvinate at the base and apex; stipules lanceolate, 
adpressed-pilose, 2 lin. long, deciduous. Spikes from nodes on the old 
wood or females axillary, males several, females solitary, 3-4 in. long ; 
rhachis puberulous, shorter than the leaves. Male flowers in sessile 
clusters ; bracts ovate, acute, puberulous. Buds globose, under 1 lin. 
wide ; calyx-segments 3-4, green, triangular. Stamens 2-seriate, nner 
slightly longer than the calyx-lobes. Female flowers solitary ; aa 
4-5-partite. Disk urceolate, distinctly 6-8-lobed. Ovary thinly 
