928 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEE (PRAIN), [ Mallotus. 
and at Abonando, Rudatis, 107! Cameroons: Mungo, Buchholz! near Bonjongo, 
Winkler, 344! Victoria, Winkler, 4385! 440! 446! 621! Deistel, 167! Dusén, 
285! Bimbia, Preuss, 1283! Bigundi, Schlechter, 12402! Northern Cameroons, 
Conrau, 223! Fernando Po: Vogel, 191! Mann, 260! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Bittner, 272! Libre- 
ville, Zrilles, 108! Klaine, 11! 333! 364! 371! 439! 534! 2286! 2717! 2730! 
2783 ! 2861 ! and without precise locality, Griffon du Bellay ! Jardin, 142. French 
Congo: Upper Ubangi; between Krebedje and Poste de la Mpoku, Chevalier, 
6068! Lower Congo: Stanley Pool district ; Lukolela, Pynaert, 170, Dewevre, 545. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Equatorial Prov.; near Kala, Laurent. 
Ubangi River; withont precise locality, Laurent. Eastern Prov.; Maniema, near 
Kasongo, Dewevre, 927, 1073, 1543. 
2. M. oppositifolius, Jill. Arg. in Linnea, xxxiv. 194. Shrub, 
6-12 ft. high; twigs stellate-pubescent, purplish-brown, soon glabrous. 
Leaves petioled, opposite, firmly membranous, ovate or ovate-oblong, 
acute or acuminate, base cordate or obtuse, margin somewhat sinuately 
toothed, 6-7 in. long, 34-4 in. wide, rather deep green above, paler 
rusty-stellate on the nerves and glandular beneath, 3-nerved from the 
base ; petiole 14-3 in. long, pubescent; stipules linear, 1-2 lin. long. 
Racemes axillary, rhachis tawny- or rusty-pubescent, male 4—5 in., 
female 24-3 in. long; male flowers glomerate ; pedicels longer than the 
flowers ; females solitary ; pedicels as long as the buds. Male: Calyx 
globose, 4- (rarely 5-) partite ; lobes valvate, ovate-lanceolate, hirsute 
without, recurved. Stamens 20-50; filaments free, purple. Female: 
Sepals 4 or 5, glandular-granulate, recurved. Ovary 3-celled, globose, 
glandular ; stigmas plumose. Capsule 3-coccous, 3-5 lin. wide; coccl 
2-valved. Seeds globose, 1} lin. across.—DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 976, mainly ; 
Hiern in Cat, Afr, Pl. Welw.i. 980; De Wild. Miss. FE. Laurent, i. 130, 
Etudes FI. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 276 and ii. 279, and Comp. Kasal, 
330; De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me sér. i. 48, Pl. 
Thonner. Congol. i. 21, ii. 227, and Reliq. Dewevr. ii. 211; Pax in 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 238, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 105, and in 
De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 50; Th. & Heél. Durand, 
Syll. Fl. Congol. 495. M. Chevalieri, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 
lv. Mém. viii. 76. Croton oppositifolius, Geiseler, Monogr. Croton. 
23. Acalypha? dentata, Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 410. 
Claoxylon cordifolium, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 506. Rottlera dentata, 
Baill. Adansonia, i. 69, partly. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: between Farana and Falaba, 500 ft., Scott- 
Elliot, 4461! Ivory Coast: between Alepe and Malamalasso, Chevalier, 17512! 
between Davo and Boutoubie, Chevalier, 16334! Togo: without precise locality, 
Baumann, 570! Southern Nigeria: Cape Coast Castle, Brass! Vogel, 75! 
Abo (Ibu), Vogel, 11! 31! 36! 48! Cameroons: various localities, 1000 -2800 ft. 
Ledermann, 2114! 3768! 3772! 4181! 4236! 4420! 4678! 4772! Schlechter, 
12766! Winkler, 5581 
Nile Land. Bongo: Baiko, Schweinfurth, 2752! Niamviam: Nabam- 
bisso River, Schweinfurth, 2961! Uganda: Entebbe, Bagshawe, 765! Unyoro, 
Dawe, 1034! ; 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Ogowe, Thollon, 278! French Congo: Kassa, 
Chevalier, 5089! Upper Ubangi; Kaga Tlonon, Chevalier, 5570! Krebedje, 
