Spirostachys. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEE (PRAIN). 1007 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Bumbo, Welwitsch, 401 (fl. specimens)! 4018 
(wholly)! German South-west Africa; Amboland; various localities, Rautanen, 
210! 217! 345!. Schinz, 730! Hereroland: Neitsas, Dinter, 677! Nels, 88! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Wilhelmstal; Kwai, 6000 ft., 
Albers, 340! Tanga; Luengertal near Amani, Braun, 1604! descent to the 
Luengertal, 2700-3400 ft., Engler, 888A! Bagamoyo; Usaugaui, Holtz, 1129! 
Mandéra, Sacleux, 1316! Mhomla, Sacleux, 1840! Morogoro; Uluguru, Holéz, 
1735! Dar-es-Salaam; between Bama and Massamgauia, Holst, 996! Kisserawe, 
Holst, 1019! between Msenga and Mafisi, Busse, iii.! Portuguese East Africa: 
Lower Zambesi; Tete, Kirk,9! Sena, Johnson, 290! Goruro, Dawe, 520! Maganja, 
Sim; Gazaland, Sim. 
Also in South Africa. 
Timber hard, durable, dark brown, with the odour of cedar (Kirk, Holtz) or 
sandal-wood (Johnson). In Sacleux’s xpecimens from Mandéra the staminal tube 
is as long as it is in the South African specimens. 
81. SEBASTIANTIA, Spreng. : Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii, 336. 
Flowers moncecious, very rarely diccious, apetalous. Disk 0. 
Male : Calyx minute, open in bud, membranous, usually 3- (occa- 
sionally 4-5-) lobed, lobes often unequal. Stamens 2-3, rarely 4; 
filaments short, free or connate at the base; anther-cells parallel, 
dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary 0. Female: Calyx very 
deeply 3-lobed, usually larger than in the male but shorter than the 
ovary. Ovary 3- (or occasionally 2-) celled ; ovules in each cell solitary ; 
styles 3 or occasionally 2, revolute or spreading, entire, free or nearly 
80, rarely distinctly connate at the base. Capsule 3-dymous or sub- 
globose, breaking up into 3 (rarely 2) 2-valved smooth or dorsally 
armed cocci. Seed oblong, subglobose or cylindric, carunculate ; testa 
smooth ; albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat.—Herbs, shrubs or 
trees, sometimes armed with spines. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, 
Shortly petioled, penninerved; stipules very small. Spikes usually 
slender, rarely stoutish, simple, rarely branched, solitary or fascicled, 
terminal or leaf-opposed, very rarely axillary; bracts glandular. 
Flowers small; males solitary or several to a bract, sessile or sub- 
Sessile, often the spikes 1-sexual male; females 1-3 at the base of the 
Male spikes or occasionally few in 1-sexual female spikes. 
Species about 75, all American save the two here described and another, which 
is confined to the Malay Archipelago. 
Shrub; leaves ovate; spikes branched; ovary smooth . 1. S.inopinata. 
Herb ; leaves linear-lanceolate; spikes simple; ovary 
aculeolate ‘ a j . s : ‘ . 8S. Chamalea. 
1. S. inopinata, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 128. Shrub 8-12 
ft. high, all parts glabrous; branches slender, cylindric, unarmed. 
Leaves shortly petioled, firmly papery, ovate or elliptic-ovate, caudate- 
acuminate, base rounded, margin entire, 2}-5 in. long, 1}-2 in. wide, 
main-nerves 6-8 on each side, base eglandular, somewhat polished 
above, paler beneath; petiole }-4 in. long. Spikes slender, axillary, 
fascicled, sparingly branched, 3-3 in. long, females mixed with the 
males; male bracts ovate, eglandular, 3-5-flowered. Male: Sepals 
