918 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEH (PRAIN). [ Alchornea. 
5. A. Engleri, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 80. Shrub, monecious, 
3 ft. high; twigs pubescent. Leaves petioled, moderately firm, oblong, 
caudate-acuminate, serrate-dentate, base cordate, 3-4 in. long, 14-2 in, 
wide, hirsute on the nerves beneath, penninerved, usually with a pair of 
glands at the base on the lower side and with 2 filiform stipels at the 
apex of the petiole; petiole 3-1 in. long; stipules subulate, Spikes 
simple or sparingly branched, terminal ‘and in the upper axils; male 
buds globose, 1 lin. wide, glomerate, females solitary, subsessile. 
Stamens 8-9 round a 2-fid rudimentary ovary. Ovary 3-4-celled, 
glabrous. Capsule smooth; styles simple, linear, over 4 in. long, 
gradually thickened downwards. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Dar-es-Salaam; Pugu Mountains, 
Engler, 3957! 
6. A. yambuyaensis, De Wild. Ltudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 
280. Shrub, monecious, 10 ft. high ; twigs pubescent. Leaves petioled, 
membranous, oblong or elliptic-ovate, caudate-acuminate, coarsely 
crenate, base cordate or rounded, 8-6 in. long, 14-23 in. wide, sparingly 
hirsute on the nerves above, densely pubescent on the nerves beneath, 
when old almost glabrous, penninerved, sometimes with a pair of glands 
at the base on the lower side and with two filiform stipules at the apex 
of the petiole; petiole 3-2 in. long; stipules subulate. Spikes simple, 
terminal and axillary, the terminal 2-sexual or female, the lateral male; 
male buds globose, 1 lin. wide, glomerate ; females solitary, subsessile. 
Stamens 8; rudimentary ovary 0. Ovary 3-4-celled, pubescent and 
ridged. Capsule 3-4-coccous, irregularly warted at the apex; sty les 
simple, linear-subulate, puberulous, 4-4 in. long.—Th. & Hél. Durand, 
Syll. Fl. Congol. 494, A. verrucosa, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 321, 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Aruwimi district; Patalungo, near 
Yambuya, on the Aruwimi, Solheid, 55, 80, 100! Mildbraed, 3289 ! Eastern Prov. ; 
Kasanga, Mawambi, on the River Ituri, Mildbraed, 3108! Kwa Muera, Fort Bent, 
Mildbraed, 2271! 
61. NEOBOUTONIA, Miill. Arg.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. iii. 317. 
Flowers dicecious, apetalous. Disk of 5 scales, sometimes very 
minute. Male: Calyx membranous, globose and closed in bud, splitting 
into 2 valvate lobes. Stamens 15-30; filaments short or very short, 
free ; anthers oblong, basifixed ; cells 2, parallel, opening longitudinally ; 
connective tipped with 1-3 minute waxy deciduous glands. Rudi- 
mentary ovary 0. Female: Calyx 5-fid or 5-partite ; lobes marae 
Ovary 3-celled; ovules solitary in each cell; styles recurved, 2-fid. 
Capsule 3-coccous; cocci 2-valved. Seeds ovoid or subglobose, caruncu- 
late ; testa crustaceous ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat.—Shrubs 
or trees, more or less clothed with tufts of stellate hairs mixed some- 
times with longer simple hairs. Leaves long-petioled, cordate-orbicular, 
5-7-nerved from the base, glandular-lepidote and stellate-pubescent be- 
neath. Male flowers in copious terminal panicles of spike-like racemes, 
