Cleidion. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEE (PRAIN). 931 
rhachis very sparingly puberulous or glabrous; flowers in clusters of 
3-6 ; bracts minute, acute ; clusters 1-3 lin. apart. Calyx white, globose, 
glabrous, 1 lin. in diam. ; segments 3, triangular, acute. Stamens many ; 
filaments slender, glabrous, inserted on a conical receptacle ; anther- 
cells with 2 superposed locelli, Disk 0. Female flowers racemose, 
solitary; pedicels finally } in. long. Ovary subglobose, 2-3-celled, 
somewhat villous; styles $-} in.long. Capsule subglobose, 4 in. across, 
3-coccous or 2-coccous. Seeds subglobose, glabrous. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Akim, on the Dansu River, Johnson, 437! 
Western Ashanti; Tappa, Chipp, 101! Coomassie, Chipp, 141! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon; Pyrat, Griffon du Bellay, 2! 
2. C. Preussii, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 343. A climbing 
shrub 15-20 ft. high, with slender green glabrous branches. Leaves 
long-petioled, alternate, ovate or oblong, acuminate, 3-5 in. long, 14-24 
in, wide, rounded at the base, crenulate, membranous, pale green, 
glabrous on both surfaces, 3-nerved at the base, midrib with about 
3 pairs of ascending secondary nerves looping to make an intra-marginal 
nerve continuous with the lateral basal nerves; midrib, veins and reti- 
culations distinct beneath ; petioles glabrous, 2 lin. long; stipules very 
minute, Male racemes axillary, shortly peduncled, lax, including the 
peduncles 3-6 in. long, with short spreading or deflexed branchlets 
é-} in. apart, usually 4—6-flowered, but sometimes towards the apex 
only 1-flowered; bracts minute, acute; pedicels filiform, longer than 
the globose glabrous buds. Calyx green; lobes 3-5, oblong, acute, 
glabrous. Stamens numerous; filaments glabrous, very short, inserted 
on a conical receptacle ; anther-cells with 2 locelli. Disk 0. Female 
flowers and fruit unknown.—Cleidion sp., Benth. in Benth. et Hook. 
f. Gen. Pl. iii. 320. C. Mannii, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 58. 
Mallotus Preussii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb, xxiii. 525. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Oban, TZalbot, 615! Cameroons: 
Barombi, Preuss, 420! Cameroon River, Mann, 2202! 
67. DISCOGLYPREMNA, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 317. 
Flowers dicecious, apetalous. Male: Calyx globose, closed in bud, 
Splitting into 5 valvate lobes. Stamens about 7; filaments long, free, 
mixed with numerous hirsute receptacular glands; anthers dorsifixed 
near the apex, cells distinct, each unequally didymous and 2-locellate, 
pendent from a prominent conical connective. Rudimentary ovary 0. 
Female: Calyx 5-partite ; lobes valvate, at length reflexed. Ovary 
3-celled ; styles distinct, entire, fimbriate within, recurved-spreading ; 
ovules solitary in each cell. Disk very prominent, of 6-8 stout scales 
hirsute at the tips, Capsule tridymous, breaking up into 2-valved 
cocci, Seeds ovoid, nestling in a fleshy aril; testa hard, thick ; tegmen 
distinct ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat.—Tree. Leaves alter- 
nate, petioled, 3-nerved and minutely 2-glandular above at the base. 
spikes in both sexes forming considerable terminal panicles. Flowers 
