1008 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEE (PRAIN). [ Sebastiania. 
almost free, suborbicular, obtuse, their margin undulate. Stamens 3, 
casually 2 or 4. Female: Sepals 3, ovate, acute, denticulate, egland- 
ular. Ovary smooth; styles united below in a column } in. long. 
Fruit not seen.—Pax & K. Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.- 
Hippoman. 120, fig. 23. S. multiramea, var. luschnathiana, Miill. Arg. 
in DC. Prodr. xv. ii, 1177, partly and as to African plant only. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: on the Cameroon River, Mann, 755! 2225! 
Bipinde, Zenker, 3225 ! and without precise locality, Mildbraed, 3626. 
A distinct species; though very nearly related to the Brazilian plant with which 
Miller has identified it, readily distinguished therefrom by its differently shaped 
leaves and its eglandular bracts. 
2. S. Chamelea, Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1175. Herb, 
annual or perennial; stems slender, glabrous, tufted, 6 in. to 2 ft. 
high. Leaves subsessile or very shortly petioled, membranous, linear- 
Janceolate, obtuse or sub-obtuse, somewhat narrowed to the base, 
finely sharply denticulate,! 11-2} in. long, 4-} in. wide, base egland- 
ular, pubescent or puberulous beneath ; petiole ;,-} in. long ; stipules 
small, ovate, acute, ciliate. Spikes terminal or leaf-opposed, slender, 
spirally floriferous, male portion 4-3 in. long, with 1 or more female 
flowers at the base of the spike or below the spike; male bracts 1-2- 
flowered, triangular, acute, glandular on each side at the base; female 
bracts lanceolate, denticulate, with a large cylindric basal gland as 
long as the bract at each side. Male: Sepals ovate, acute, denticulate. 
Stamens 3. Female: Sepals ovate, acuminate, lacerate, with a simple 
or lobed gland at each side on the inner face. Ovary glabrous, 
aculeolate. Capsule 3-coccous, or casually 2-coccous, ;~} in. long ; 
cocci 2-seriately many-aculeolate on the back. Seeds ellipsoid-oblong, 
yo-% in. long, smooth, blackish or grey.—Benth. & F. Miill. Fi. Austr. 
vi. 151; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 475; Pax & K. Hoffm. in Engl. 
Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Hippoman. 116. S. Chamelea, var. chariensts, 
Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Ivii. Mém. viii. 128; var. africana, 
Pax & K. Hoffm.1.c.117. Zragia Chamelea, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1. 981. 
Microstachys Chamelea, Juss. Tent. Gen. Euphorb. 49; Miill. Arg: 
in Linnea, xxxii. 95. M. supina, Klotzsch ex Pax & K. Hofim. Le. 116. 
Onemidostachys Chamelea, Spreng. Syst. iii. 835. C. linearifolia, Mig. 
Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 460. Zlachocroton asperococcum, F. Mill. in 
Hook. Journ. Bot. ix.(1857) 17. Stillingia Chamelea Baill. Etude Gen. 
Euphorb. 516. SS. asperococca, Baill. ex Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. Xv. 
ii. 1161, 1175. Ezxcecaria Chamelea, Baill. Adansonia, vi. 323. 
Upper Guinea. Togo: Agome, Schlechter, 12965! Lome, Warnecke, 186! 
Dahomey: Cotonou, Poisson, 131! Southern Nigeria: Lagos, Dawodu, 287! 
Atta (Idda), Vogel, 57! Stirling Hill, Vogel! Ansell! Northern Nigeria: Noy 
Barter, 1492! Lokoja, Parsons, 7! Zungeru, Dalziel, 72! Yola, Dalziel, 169! 
Cameroons, 1000-1800 ft.: Sagche, Ledermann, 3737! Duma, Ledermann, vei 
Lagdo, Ledermann, 4410! Garur, Ledermann, 4637! Shamba, Ledermann, 5241: 
North Central. Bagirmi: Souka, Chevalier, 9055! Kolkile, Chevalier, 
9775! 
Also widely spread throughout South-eastern Asia to Northern Australia. 
