Cheetocarpus. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEE (PRAIN). 947 
globose-setose or tubercled or both, breaking up into 3 2-valved cocci. 
Seed ovoid or subglobose ; testa crustaceous, black, polished; albumen 
fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat.—Shrubs, glabrous or puberulous. Leaves 
alternate, stipulate, short-petioled, entire, coriaceous. Flowers small, 
axillary, densely fascicled.—Veochevaliera, Beille in Comptes Rendus 
Acad. Sc. Paris, exlv. 1294. 
Species about 6; two in India and Malaya, three in South America, and the 
following. | 
1. C. africanus, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 113. Shrub 6-10 ft. 
high; twigs pubescent. Leaves very short-petioled, coriaceous, oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate, base wide-cuneate or occasionally rounded, margin 
entire, 3-6 in. long, 14-24 in. wide, polished, at first sparingly hairy, 
soon glabrous above, dark green; beneath paler, dull, sparsely hairy 
but soon glabrous except on the raised midrib and nerves; petiole 
hispidly hairy, 2 lin. long; stipules linear, caducous. Male flowers 
glomerulate, female solitary. Male: Sepals 4, imbricate, 2-seriate, 
unequal. Stamens 6 ; free part of filaments pubescent,subdistichously 
disposed on a pubescent column, which is surrounded at the base by 
an extra-staminal ring of 6 unequal receptacular glands, Rudimentary 
ovary terminating the column, obovate, entire, pilose. Female: Sepals 
7-8, 2-seriate, outer 3 or 2 pubescent, smaller than the 5 glabrous, 
much imbricate inner. Disk of 5 triangular laciniate lobes. Ovary 
densely hispid, 3-celled, cells 1-ovuled; styles 3, tawny-tomentose, 
branched. Capsule subglobose, 4 lin. wide, closely tubercled and setose. 
Seeds black, truncate; testa shining; caruncle distinct, subglobose.— 
Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 246; De Wild. & Durand in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. 2me sér. i. 48, and Reliq. Dewevr. ii. 212 ; De Wild. Miss. 
KE. Laurent, 141, and Etudes FI. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 288; Th. & 
Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 497; De Wild. Comp. de Kasai, Miss. 
Scient. 341. Neocheraliera brazzavillensis, Beille in Bull. Soe. Bot. 
France, lv. Mém. viii. 54. 
Lower Guinea. French Congo: Brazzaville, Brazza! Chevalier, 4128! 
4141! 4149! 11141! 11142! 11207! Dybowski! between Nigona and Ngantchou, 
Chevalier, 5022! Lower Congo: Stanley Pool district; Bolobo, Laurent; Kin- 
chassa, Schlechter, 12546! 15554! 12802! Leopoldville, Dewevre; Kisantu, 
Gillet, Laurent; Kimuenza, Pynaert, 115; Sanda, Vermuelen (Gillet, 3411); 
Dembo, Vanderyst. Kwango district; Dima, Laurent. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Lake Leupold II. district ; Mfini, Laurent. 
Lualaba-Kagai district; by the Kasai River, Laurent ; Kamba, Laurent ; Kapinga. 
Laurent ; Butala, Laurent ; Mangba, Laurent ; Mukenge, Pogge, 1384, 1388 ; on 
the Sankuru, Sapin ! Katanga district; Mussamba, Pogge, 112. 
71. GELONIUM, Roxb.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ili, 324, 
Flowers diccious, rarely moncecious, apetalovs. Male: Sepals 5, im- 
bricate. Stamens 10-60, crowded on a convex receptacle; filaments free, 
filiform; anthers oblong, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary 
ovary 0. Female: Sepals 5 or 3, imbricate. Disk membranous at the 
