_ Alchornea. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACE (PRAIN). 915 
Icaves 6-12 in. long, nerves 12 or more on each side ; 
male inflorescences all lateral ; capsule smooth . 2. A. floribunda. 
Leaves 24—6 in. long, nerves 10 or fewer on each side ; 
male as well as female inflorescences terminal. 
Capsule smooth; petioles finely puberulous or 
glabrous, } in. long or less . . . . 3. A. glabrata. 
Capsule verrucose ; petioles hispidly hairy, $3 in. 
long . : : : : ; 3 . 4. A. hirtella. 
Leaves with a pair of stipels at the cordate or sub- 
cordate base; flowers mouccious; inflorescences 
both terminal and axillary. 
Leaves firm; capsule smooth. < = . . 5. A, Engleri. 
Leaves membranous; capsule verrucose . ~ . 6. A. yambuyaensis. 
1. A. cordata, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 507. Shrub 3-12 ft. 
high or a small tree; twigs pubescent. Leaves long-petioled, moderately 
firm, cordate-ovate, acute, crenate or entire, 4—10 in. long, 3-6 in. wide, 
glabrous when mature, 5-nerved from the base, with 4 basal glands in 
the angles of the nerves; petiole 2-4 (occasionally 5-6) in. long. Male 
spikes copiously paniculate ; panicles axillary; buds globose, $ lin. wide. 
Female flowers in long lax spikes; calyx 4-lobed. Capsule 2-celled, 
$ in. wide.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 979; Stapf in Johnston, 
Liberia, ii, 650: not A. cordata, Miill. Arg. A. cordifolia, Miill. Arg. 
in Linnea, xxxiv. 170, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 908; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 
257; Pax in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 160, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 
105, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 238; Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soe, 
Xxxvil. 213; De Wild. & Durand in Contrib. Fl. Congo, ii. 57, Reliq. 
Dewevr. ii. 211, and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me sér. i. 48; De Wild. 
Miss. F. Laurent, i: 129, Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 276, ii. 
280, and Comp. Kasai, 330; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 494. 
Schousheea cordifolia, Schum, & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 449. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal: various locatities, Roger ! Perrottet, 729, 730, 
731! Heudelot, 23! Leprieur! Farmar, 100! Gambia: Banks of the Gambia, 
Heudelot, 345! French Guinea: Fouta Jallon, Miguel, 15! Kouria, Caille 
(Chevalier), 14663! Konakry, Maclaud, 181! without precise locality, Paroisse, 34! 
Sierra Leone: various localities, Johnston, 87! Kirk! Mrs. Hunter! Afzelius, 
418! Don! Vogel, 141! Daniell! Garrett, 24! Scott-Elliot, 3844! 4179! 
Liberia : Grand Bassa, Dinklage, 2097! Sinoe Basin, Whyte! Gold Coast; Aburi, 
Brown, 937! Ashanti, Cummins, 179! Togo: near Sokode, 1000-1300 ft., 
Kersting, 501 343! 405! 729! Kirikiri, 1000 ft, Kersting, 58! Misahohe, 
Baumann, 399! Atakpame, Doering, 282! Dahomey: Dogba, Le Testu, 204! 
5! Poisson, 113! Southern Nigeria: various localities, Moloney! Foster, 153! 
Millen, 1621 Lamborn, 14! Dawodu, 13! Dennett,69! Vogel! Mann! Talbot, 
6821 1319! Northern Nigeria: Kontagora, Dalziel, 88! Katagum, Dalziel, 405! 
Gurara River, Elliot, 217! . Cameroons: various localities, Deistel, 67! 125! 
Zenker § Staudt, 86! Zenker, 1091! 1309! Buchholz, 74! Preuss, 551! Dink- 
lage, 1170! 1456! Bates, 69! Staudt, 500! 551! Ledermann, 337! 2048. 
Winkler, 3181 1017! 1037! Fernando Po, Vogel,73! Barter! Mann, 81! 
North Central. Western Soudxn: near the Banamiane, Chevalier, 151! 
USsatie, Chevali: 1, 456! pe cea 
Bile Band. Niuumiam: 2 abamb'sso River, Schweinfurth, 29 3031 ! 
