Plukenetia.] CXXII, EUPHORBIACEH (PRAIN), 951 
jointed above the base. Male: Calyx subglobose, glabrous, valvately 
4-lobed ; lobes lanceolate. Stamens about 8; filaments very short, with 
minute inter-staminal glands; anthers subglobose, cells adnate to the 
connective throughout. Female: Calyx pubescent, 4-lobed ; lobes ovate - 
acute, imbricate. Disk 0. Ovary densely strigose, 4-celled and shortly 
4.winged ; style very short, with four shortly ovate cruciformly spread- 
ing smooth, slightly suleate stigmas. Capsule 4-coccous ; cocci 2-valved, 
horned, cruciformly explanate, each }-} in. from the inner angle to the 
apex of the horn, } in. wide. Seed suborbicular, subcompressed ; testa 
somewhat rugose, expanded in a narrow firm irregular wing all round.— 
DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 772; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C, 240. Pseudo- 
tragia scandens, Pax in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me sér. viii. 636. 
Lower Guinea. German South-West Africa: Amboland ; Oohama, Schinz, 
894! Damaraland ; Okanakasewa, Dinter, 666 ! Otjitus, Dinter, 859 ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi, between 
Shupanga and Sena, Kirk ! 
Very closely allied to P. africana, Sonder, and perhaps only a variety of that 
Species, but readily distinguished by the more minutely dentate leaves, the larger 
fruits and the rather fewer stamens. 
3. P. africana, Sonder in Linnea, xxiii.110. Herb; stems many 
from a woody base, slender, erect, at first pubescent. Leaves short- 
petioled, firmly membranous, often purplish when young, narrowly 
triangular-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, base shortly laterally 
lobed, wide cuneate, rounded, truncate or shallow-cordate, margin 
strongly dentate especially towards the base, 14-14 in. long, $-$ in. 
Wide, glabrous above, sparingly hirsute on the purplish nerves beneath ; 
petiole slender, 1-1 in. long, pubescent; stipules linear, small. Racemes 
simple, spike-like, lateral or leaf-opposed, 1-14 in. long; male flowers 
rather few, females solitary, subbasal; bracts ovate-lanceolate, males 
several-flowered ; pedicels jointed above the base. Male: Calyx sub- 
globose, sparingly pubescent, valvately 4-lobed; lobes lanceolate. 
Stamens about 12; filaments short, with minute inter-staminal glands ; 
anthers subglobose, cells adnate to connective throughout. Female: 
alyx pubescent, 4-lobed, lobes ovate-lanceolate, imbricate. Disk 0. 
Ovary densely strigose ; style very short, with 4 shortly ovate cruci- 
formly spreading finely papillose stigmas. Capsule 4-coccous ; cocci 
2-valved, horned, cruciformly explanate, each } in. from the inner angle 
to the apex of the horn, 4 in. wide. Seed suborbicular, subcompressed ; 
testa. somewhat rugose, ‘expanded in a narrow firm irregular wing all 
round.— Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 773. Sajorium africanum, 
Baill. Etude Gén. Euphorb. 483. Pseudotragia Schinzii, Pax in Bull. 
Herb, Boiss, 2me sér. viii. 635. 
Lower Guinea. German South-West Africa: Hereroland, Otjiheveta, 
Schinz, 895! 
Also in South Africa. 
4. P. procumbens, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 240. Herb; 
stems many from a woody base, rather stout, complanate, prostrate, 
