922 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEE (PRAIN). [ Veoboutonia. 
with 3 (sometimes with a solitary) apical gland ; extra-staminal scales 
ovate. Female flowers in copiously branched racemes, small, 2 lin. long, 
3 lin. wide. Sepals linear-lanceolate, pubescent, connate below in a 
very short tube. Ovary with tufts of stellate hairs; styles narrow with 
2 linear lobes. Capsule 3-coccous, dark greenish-brown, pubescent, 
4 lin. long, as much across. Seeds subglobose; hilum prolonged down 
on the inner side.—DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 892; Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. 
sub tt, 1298, 1299 as to citation but excluding the description and 
figures ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 980. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 359! 3596! Cazengo, 
Gossweiler, 4376! 43764! 4746! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Elizabethville, Rogers, 10261! 
7. IN. canescens, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 91, partly, and as to 
Schweinfurth’s specimens only. Tree, 25-40 ft. high; twigs rusty 
stellate-scurfy.. Leaves distinctly petioled, orbicular-cordate, acute, 
entire, 4-8 in. long, as much across; green, sparingly stellate-scurfy on 
main neryes above, beneath closely and uniformly clothed with fine 
felted tomentum intermixed with small flat glands; petiole finely and 
closely scurfy; stipules linear. Male flowers pedicelled, copiously 
panicled, in bud globose, 1 lin. wide when open; rhachis and panicle 
branches scurfy, Calyx glabrous. Stamens about 20; filaments short 
and thick, hardly longer than the anthers; connective usually with 3 
(occasionally with a solitary) apical glands; extra-staminal scales very 
minute, lanceolate. Female flowers in copiously branched racemes, 
small, 2 lin. long, 3 lin. wide. Sepals linear-lanceolate, pubescent, 
connate below in a very short tube. Ovary with tufts of stellate hairs ; 
styles narrow, with 2 linear lobes. Capsule 3-coccous, stellate brown- 
scurfy with a few longer white hairs intermixed, 3 lin. long, as much 
across. Seeds subglobose, dark brown ; hilum prolonged downwards on 
the inner side.—J. africana, Benth. in Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 1298, 1299, as 
to description and figures ; not of Mill. Arg. WV. Chevalieri, Beille in 
Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lv. Mém. viii. 77. 
Nile Land. Niamniam: Nabambisso River, Schweinfurth, iii. 145! ; 
Lower Guinea. French Congo: Upper Ubungi; Boma, near Kaga Do, 10 
the Upper Ombella Valley, Chevalier, 5958 ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Eastern Prov.; Mawambi, Mildiraed, 3098! 
Fort Beni, Kwa Muera, Mildbraed, 2196! 
8. N. Melleri, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 266. Tree, 30-40 ey 
high ; twigs grey- or rusty-stellate scurfy. Leaves distinctly petioled, 
orbicular-cordate, acute or obtuse, entire, 4—$ in. long, as much se 
very firm, green, sparingly hirsute and stellate-scurfy on nerves ap 
reticulations above, beneath closely and uniformly clothed with a ee 
felted tomentum intermixed with small flat glands; petiole i serge! 
scurfy; stipules linear. Male flowers sessile or subsessile, ope sabe 
panicled, in bud globose, 14 lin. wide when open; rhachis and panicie- 
branches scurfy. Calyx usually sparingly hirsute towards the ee 
Stamens 25-30; filaments slender, considcrably longer than the 
