916 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEA: (PRATN). [ Alchornea, 
3049! Uganda: various localities, Stuhlmann, 1312! Fyfe, 119! Scott-Elliot, 
7367! 7408! 8037! Ussher, 11! Bagshawe, 66! 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island: Newton, 1! Welwitsch, 378! St. Thomas 
Island: Welwitsch, 377! Moller, 161! 175! Henriques, 32! Spanish Guinea: 
Benito, Guiral ! Fang district, Tessmann, 116! Nkolentangan, 1500 ft., Zessmann, 
167! Gaboon: various localities, Griffon du Bellay, 241! 351! Klaine, 1088! 
1345! Leroy, 60! Thollon, 341! 4008! Biittner, 263! 264! 265! Libreville, 
Jolly, 171! Lecomte, a24! Lower Congo: various localities, Cabra, Smith! 
Cabra § Michel, Dupuis, Gillet, Butaye (Gillet, 3481), Pynaert, 54, 254, 
Soyaur, 92! Duparquet, 104! Angola: Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 359 (Herb. 
Berlin) ! 378! 379! Cazengo, Gossweiler, 653! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: near Lake Leopold IL., Body. Equatorial 
district; Ikenge, Laurent. Bangala district; Umangi, Laurent; Lie, Laurent. 
Lualaba-Kasai district ; Kasongo-Batetela, Sapin! Mushenge, Lescrauwaet, 389; 
. Mukenge, Pogge, 1369! Lulua, Pogge, 1380! 1389! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kwidjivi Island in Lake Kivu, 
5000-6000 ft., Wildbraed, 1182! Karagwe; Ihangiro, Stuhlmann, 914! Bukoba, 
Stuhlmann, 960! 1036! 3681! 3789! Stiipner, 11! British Central Africa: 
Nyasaland; Mandala, Scott-Elliot, 8542! 
2. A. floribunda, Jill. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 336, excl. var 
Shrub or small tree, 6-25 ft. high; twigs glabrous. Leaves short- 
petioled, moderately firm, oblanceolate-oblong, acute, entire or crenate, 
narrowed from beyond the middle to the narrow rounded base, 6—12 in. 
long, 24-44 in. wide, glabrous, penninerved, with usually 2 pairs of 
glands at or near the base on the lower side ; petiole } in. long or less; 
stipules subulate. Male spikes copiously panicled ; panicles lateral ; buds 
globose, 4 lin. wide. Female flowers in simple or panicled terminal 
long lax spikes. Capsule 3-celled, smooth, } in. across; styles simple, 
linear-subulate, over 4 in. long.—Flora, 1864, 435 ; DC, Prodr. Xv. i. 
905, excl. var. 3; De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 50, and 
in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me sér. i. 837; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et 
Moyen-Congo, ii. 280; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 494, 
mainly. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Benin, Dennett, 6! Oban, Talbot’ 
Cameroons: Buea, 3200-3300 ft., Reder, 643! Preuss, 907! Lehmbach, 7! 202! 
Efulen, Bates, 211! Yaunde, 2700 ft., Zenker & Staudt, 137! Zenker, 508! 534! 
Bipindi, Zenker, 2241! 2916! 3760! Fernando Po: Mann, 306! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: near Libreville, Klaine, 1701! 2200! French 
Congo: Mayumba forests, Thollon, 1262! Nkomi, Lecomte! Lower Congo 
Banana, Cabra; Boma; Mayumbe, Upper Chiloango, Cabra § Michel; near 
Kisantu, Gillet, 3799; Sele, Butaye. Spanish Guinea:- Mount J ohn, on the River 
Kongui, Mann, 1801! Nkolentangan, Zessmann, 227! 5 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Equatorial Province; Upper eat 
Bieler ; Kala, Pynaert, 1426; Equator, Pynaert, 332. Bangala; Mongala, oa 
Mobeka, Laurent. Aruwimi; near Yambuya, Laurent. Welle; Bomokandi, we 
Nala, Seret, 884. Eastern Prov.; Fort Beni, Kwa Muera, Mildbraed, 2179! 2191! 
Kaponso Poyo, 3300-3700 ft., Mildbraed, 2800! 
3. A. glabrata, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 342, Shrub or tree 
sometimes 40 ft. high; twigs pubescent or puberulous. Leaves shor 
