920 OXXII. EUPHORBIACEEX (PRAIN). | Veoboutonia, 
emarginate. Female flowers in simple or sparingly branched racemes, 
large, 5 lin. long, 8 lin. wide. Sepals lanceolate, accrescent, stellate- 
velvety, connate below in a short tube. Styles rather broad, 2-fid. 
Capsule 3-coccous, 6 lin. long, as much across. Seeds ovoid, pale brown ; 
hilum large, prolonged halfway down on the inner side. 
Wile Land. Uganda: a day’s march from Nandi, Whyte! British East 
Africa: Escarpment, 7000-9000 ft., Battiscombe, 59! Aberdare Mountains, 8000 ft., 
Heller! Mount Kenia, Elephant Camp, Heller! «and without precise locality, 
Elliott, 22! 146! Powell, 150! Hutchins ! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Wilhelmstal; West Usambara, 
Waruni, 4700-5000 ft., Bugler! 1083! Ruanda; Rugege Forest, 6400 ft., at 
Rukurera, Nizahindi, and Nirussisi, Mildbraed, 1026! 1038! 1039! South of 
Karissimbi, 8500 ft., Mildbraed, 1564! Uhehe ; near Mufindi, 6200 ft., Goetze, 758! 
2. N. diaguissensis, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lvii. Mém. 
viii. 125. Small tree; twigs stellate-pubescent and softly velvety with 
long white hairs. Leaves distinctly petioled, orbicular-cordate, acute 
or obtuse, somewhat undulate, crenate, 5-6 in, long, as much across, 
green, pubescent on nerves, veins and reticulations only, beneath with 
stellate tufts mixed with long subsimple hairs, above with long simple 
bulbous-based hairs only; petioles closely velvety; stipules minute, 
ovate-lanceolate. Male flowers shortly pedicelled, copiously panicled, 
in bud ovate, apiculate, 14 lin. wide when open; rhachis and panicle- 
branches velvety. Calyx sparingly hirsute at the apex. Stamens 1 
20; filaments about as long as the anthers; connective with a single 
gland, occasionally with 2-3 apical glands; extra-staminal scales ovate. 
Female flowers and fruit unknown. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea: high plateauof Diaguissa, Chevalier, 12691! 
3. N. Mannii, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. sub t. 1298. Small tree, 
20-35 ft. high; twigs stellate-scurfy, tufts mixed with a few long 
white hairs. Leaves distinctly petioled, orbicular-cordate, acute or 
obtuse, entire, 4-8 in. long, as much across, green, pubescent on nerves 
and veins only, beneath densely scurfy and softly pubescent with long 
hairs especially on main and secondary nerves, above sparsely scurly 
and sparingly beset with long simple hairs on main nerves; petiole 
softly and sparingly hirsute; stipules minute, ovate-lanceolate. Male 
flowers pedicelled, copiously panicled, in bud globose, 1 lin. wide when 
open ; rhachis and panicle-branches sparingly scurfy. Calyx sparingly 
hirsute at theapex. Stamens 15-20; filaments longer than the anthers ; 
connective usually with a single (sometimes with 2-3) terminal glands; 
extra-staminal scales ovate. Female flowers in copiously branched 
racemes, small, 2 lin. long, 3 lin. wide. Sepals wide triangular, finely 
pubescent, connate below in a tube longer than the lobes. Styles 
narrow, with 2 linear lobes, Fruit unknown.—Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. ili. 317. Conceveiba africana, Miill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 530. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bargkon, Conrau, 149! Buea, 3300 ft., 
Lembach, 203! Deistel, 643! Reder, 562! 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island, Mann, 1127! 
