Mareya.| -CXXII, EUPHORBIACEZ (PRAIN). 913 
pubescent, subglobose, slightly suleate or smooth, thick-walled, 2-celled, 
less often 3-celled; ovules solitary; styles 2 or 3, connate below, 
recurved and free above, finely papillose, simple. Fruit indehiscent, 
depressed-globose, } in. wide, 5 lin. high; pericarp glandular-lenticelled 
externally. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, 260-1350 ft., Zenker, 1795! 1850! 
2382! 2549! 3636! 4228! 
Very distinct from the other species on account of the much larger indehiscent 
fruit. 
59, LEPIDOTURUS, Baill.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 316. 
Flowers dicecious, apetalous. Male: Calyx globose, closed in bud, 
splitting into 4, less often 3 or 5, valvate lobes. Stamens 8; filaments 
slightly connate at the base; anthers oblong, erect, dorsifixed ; cells 
contiguous, parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary 0. 
Female: Calyx 8-5-sect; lobes unequal. Disk 0 or of 3-4 glands. 
Ovary 3-celled ; cells 1-ovuled; styles at first connate, ultimately free 
from the base, simple or 2-partite. Capsule 3-dymous, breaking up 
into 3 2-valved cocci. Seeds strophiolate ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 
broad, flat.—Shrubs. Leaves alternate, membranous, petioled, glabrous, 
entire or crenate, 3-5-nerved from the base. Male spikes on the old 
wood, sessile; bracts large, concave, persistent, subtending solitary 
sessile flowers or several pedicellate ones. Female spikes few-flowered. 
Species 3, one from Madagascar and the two following. 
Leaves rounded at the base; spikes at length rather lax . 1. LZ. laxiflorus. | 
Leaves slightly cordate at the base; spikes dense - . 2. L. occidentalis. 
1. L. laxiflorus, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1297. Shrub or small 
tree, 15-20 ft. high ; twigs rather stout, puberulous. Leaves petioled, 
membranous, oblong, caudate-acuminate, base rounded, margin shortly 
and closely crenate, 3-nerved, rarely 5-nerved from the base, 3-5 in. 
long, 13-2 in. wide, bright green, somewhat shining, glabrous above, 
herves beneath with long spreading hispidulous hairs ; petiole puberulous, 
1-1} in. long; stipules setaceous, puberulous, 8 lin, long; stipels 
glabrous, 1 lin. long. Male spikes numerous from below the leaves, 
when young dense, at length lax, 2-3 in. long; bracts ovate, brown, 
Scarious, slightly pubescent near the margin outside, § in. wide. Male: 
alyx subglobose, } lin. wide, sparingly pubescent ; pedicel short. 
emale: Ovary pubescent; styles long, slender, simple, pubescent 
outside. Capsule globose, sparingly puberulous or pubescent, 3-dymous. 
Seeds smooth, globose-—Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 238. Macaranga 
meri, De Wild. Pl. Thonner. Congol. ii. 227, t. 4. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: interior of Western Lagos, Rowland / 
oruba forests, Barter, 3342! Millson, 42! 135! Benin, Unwin, 39! Cameroons * 
Various localities, 2300-4850 ft., Preuss, 868! Diestel, 560! Reder, 393! 430! 
"Seles 48a! Zenker, 187! Ledermann, 1902! 2445! 2475! 2489! 2806! 
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