Alchornea. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACE (PRAIN). SB BY 
petioled, moderately firm, oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, acute, entire 
or crenate, much narrowed to the narrow-truncate or cuneate base, 
4-6 in. long, 1-24 in. wide, glabrous, penninerved, with 1-2 pairs of 
glands at or near the base on the lower side; petiole } in. long or less; 
stipules subulate. Male spikes copiously panicled; panicles terminal ; 
buds globose, $ lin. wide. Female flowers in simple terminal lax spikes. 
Capsule 3-celled, smooth, finely pubescent, } in. across; styles simple, 
linear-subulate, 4 in. long.—A. floribunda, var. glabrata, Miill. Arg. in 
Journ. Bot. 1864, 336, and in DO. Prodr. xv. ii. 905; Hiern in Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 979. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 4087! 
Nile Land. Uganda: Entebbe, Bagshawe, 713! 
Lower Guinea. French Congo: Mayumba forests, Thollon, 1110! 1285! 
River Alima, Thollon, 946! 947! Angola: Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 352! 
pe “rom Central. Belgian Congo: Niamniam; Yuru River, Schweinfurth, 
75 ! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Amani, Zimmermann, 93! 151! 
880 ! Usambara, 4000 ft., Buchwald, 247! 249! Lutindi, Liebusch ! Nquelo, 
3300 ft., Scheffler, 51! Urundi; Kiriba, 7000-8000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 8278! 8307! 
Ruyege Forest, 6300 ft., Mildbraed, 914! Kwidjivi Island in Lake Kivu, 5300 ft., 
Mildbraed, 1207! 
Also in Natal. 
_ 4. A. hirtella, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl.507. Small shrub ; twigs 
pilose. Leaves short-petioled, moderately firm, oblong or oblanceolate- 
oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, entire or crenate, narrowed to a 
rounded base, 21-5 in. long, 1-2} in. wide, usually hispid on the midrib 
beneath, penninerved, with a pair of glands at the base on the lower 
Side; petiole hispid, }-} in. long; stipules subulate. Male spikes 
Coplously or sparingly panicled, rarely simple, terminal; buds globose, 
lin. wide; rhachis pubescent. Female flowers in simple terminal lax 
spikes. Capsule 3-celled, muricately tubercled, pubescent, 4 in. across ; 
styles simple, linear-subulate.— Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 904; 
Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 23; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen- 
Congo, ii. 280; Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 649 ; Th. & Hél. Durand, 
Syll. Fi. Congol. 494. A. floribunda, De Wild. & Durand, Pl. Thonner. 
Congol. i. 20 ; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 494, partly ; not of 
Will. Arg. 4, comoensis, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lvii. Mém. 
vu. 124. ; 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: Rio Nunez, Heudelot, 746! French Soudan 
MuiNCoro, Chevalier,499! French Guinea: Kouria, Chevalier, 14707! Conakry, 
aclaud, 551 Dybowski, 47! and without precise locality, Farmar, 206! Sierra 
one: River Pungas, Afzelius ! Scarcies River, Scott-Elliot, 4230! 4629! 4714! 
— Without precise locality, Smeathmann / Liberia: Grand Bassa, Vogel, 35! 
‘uklage, 1723! 1814! 2017! Ivory Coast: River Comée; between Alepe and 
alamalasso, Chevalier, 17507 ! 
South Central. Gaboon: Bonando, Duparquet ! near Libreville, Klaine, 
* Ar 1230! Belgian Congo: Bangala; Mongala, Ngali, 1500 ft. Tonner, 14! 
Uwimni; Isangi, Laurent; and without precise locality, Dewévre ! 
