Neoboutonia. | CXXU, EUPHORBIACZ& (PRAIN). 923° 
anthers ; connective usually with 3 (rarely with a solitary) apical glands ; 
extra-staminal scales oblong, truncate or emarginate. Female flowers 
in branched racemes, branches not very copious, small, 2 lin. long, 3 lin. 
wide. Sepals linear-lanceolate, pubescent, connate below in a short 
tube. Ovary rather closely strigose ; styles narrow, with 2 linear lobes. 
Capsule 3-coccous, dark brown, pubescent, 4 lin. long, as much across. 
Seeds subglobose, hilum prolonged downwards on inner side.—Prain 
ex 5. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 201. WV. canescens, Pax in Engl. 
Jahrb, xix. 91, mainly, but excl. Schweinfurth’s specimens; Pax in 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 238; Dawe, Rep. Bot. Uganda, 56. Mallotus 
Melleri, Miill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 468; DO. Prodr. xv. ii. 959; Dawe, 
Rep. Bot. Uganda, 56. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Toro; on the Nsongi River, 4000 ft., Dawe, 841! on 
the B gera, 4000 ft., Bagshawe, 1130! Ankole, 5000 ft., Dawe, 445 ! 475! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Eastern Prov.; Ruwenzori, 4000 ft. 
Mildbraed, 2477! 2744! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1097! 1150! 
1565! 1582! 3321! 3745! Kabotschi, Fischer, 527! Portuguese East Africa: 
Gazaland; Mount Maruma, 3500 ft., Swynnerton, 686! Kurumadzi, 2000 ft., 
Swynnerton, 1124! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Zomba, Whyte! 91! 
Manganja Hills, Meller! Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 12! 21! 344! 1498! 
62, NECEPSIA, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 343. 
Flowers monecious, apetalous. Male: Calyx ovoid-globose with 
4 valvate ascending segments. Stamens numerous, free, inserted on a 
globose receptacle, mixed with oblong densely pubescent glands ; 
anthers introrse, longitudinally attached to a rather widened connective 
which is produced slightly beyond the anthers. Rudimentary ovary 0, 
Female: Sepals 5, imbricate. Disk thick, flat, with a slightly crenulate 
margin, glabrous below and on the edge, densely setose on the free 
portion above. Ovary 3-celled, densely setose, cells 1-ovuled ; styles 3, 
bitid, very stout, somewhat reflexed, very slightly connate at the base, 
airy externally, papillose on the face——Tree. Leaves alternate, dis- 
tinctly petioled, minutely and remotely toothed. Flowers in axillary 
androgynous or 1-sexual spikes; males many fascicled with a single 
central female, or males many fascicled without a central female, or 
Solitary females subtended by several bracts; bracts rigid, subscarious. 
A single endemic species. 
1. N. Afzelii, Pruin in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 343. <A tree; twigs 
at first finely tawny-puberulous, soon becoming glabrous. Leaves 
Shortly petioled, oblong-ovate or ovate, acutely acuminate, tip mucronu- 
late, minutely and remotely toothed, base wide-cuneate, 2-glandular 
beneath, 4-10 in. long, 24-3} in. wide, glabrous on both surfaces, firmly 
chartaceous; main nerves 7-8 on each side, arching ; transverse veinlets 
nearly parallel; all prominent beneath, m.drib and main nerves also 
Prominent above; petiole 4-1 in. long, glabrous, channelled above ; 
Stipules lanceolate, rigid, subscarious, persistent, 3 lin. long. Spikes 
