1012 OXXII, EUPHORBIACEH (PRAIN). [Sapium. 
comoensis, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lvii. Mém. viii. 129. 
EL. angustifolia, Afzel, ex Pax, le. Sapium mannianum, De Wild. 
Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 288, partly (Lukolela and Djuma 
Valley specimens only); Th. & Hél. Durand, Syl). Fl. Congol. 500, partly ; 
not of Benth. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Freetown and elsewhere, Afzelius ! Smeath- 
man! Don! Morson ! Scott-Elliot, 5906! Liberia: Monrovia, Dinklage, 2418! 
Ivory Coast: Grabo ; Mount Toni, 650 ft., Chevalier, 16979! Mount Cope, 800 ft., 
Chevalier, 19701! Lower Comoe; Bettie, Chevalier, 17577! Southern Nigeria: 
Oban, Talbot, 666! Cameroons: Johann AlbrechtshGhe, Buesgen, 108! Staudt, 
609! between Bajila and Mundame, Winkler, 999! Batanga, Dinklage, 797! 
Bipinde, 350 ft. Zenker, 1165! 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island: Mann! Lower Congo: Stanley Pool 
district ; Lukolela, Laurent ! Kriekels! Kwango district ; Dyuma Valley, Gentil! 
4. S. Grahami, Prain. A small shrub; rootstock deeply buried, 
creeping and giving off erect underground shoots 14 ft. high at intervals 
of 8-10 in.; everywhere glabrous; stems herbaceous or subherbaceous, 
several from the crown of each erect subterranean shoot, simple, 6-19 in. 
high, perulate at and above the base ; scales coriaceous, oblong, obtuse. 
Leaves subsessile, coriaceous, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or 
subacute, base rounded or wide-cuneate, decurent on the petiole, margin 
minutely toothed, 14-5 in. long, 1-2 in. wide ; petiole 1 lin. long or less, 
with a gland on each side at its junction with the lamina; stipules 
fimbriately laciniate, caducous. Spikes terminal, 4-2 in. long, slender, 
with a peduncle under } in. long, with many rather dense sessile spirally 
arranged male flowers above and 1-2 subsessile basal female flowers ; 
bracts in both sexes 1-flowered, ovate, obtuse, entire, 2-glandular at the 
base. Male: Calyx deeply 3-partite ; lobes elliptic, inflexed at the tip- 
Stamens 3, exserted. Female: Calyx 3-sect ; lobes orbicular-ovate, 
obtuse, entire or subentire. Ovary glabrous, not horned ; styles 3, free 
almost to the base. Capsule thinly crustaceous, 3 in. wide, breaking up 
explosively into three 2-valved cocci; fruiting pedicel s in. long. 
Seeds globose, yellow and brown.—Eacecaria Grahami, Stapf in Kew 
Bulletin, 1906, 81; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Hippoman, 164. 
E. guineensis, Beille in Herb. Chevalier ; not of Miill. Arg. 
Upper Guinea. Ivory Coast: Penue, Chevalier, 823! Gold Coast: Northern 
Territory at Gambaga, Graham / and without precise locality, Zvans,8! Togo? 
Gabotawe, 1000 ft., Kersting, 276! Basari, Kersting, 605! 
5. S. faradianense, Pax in Engl. PAhanzenr. Euphorb.-Hippoman- 
247. A small undershrub, everywhere glabrous; rootstock slender, 
erect; stems several from the crown of the rootstock, slender, woody, 
sparingly branched ; twigs perulate at and above the base; scales atest: 
small, membranous, triangular, caducous. Leaves very shortly petiole 
or subsessile, firmly membranous, ovate, obtuse, base rounded or shortly 
wide-cuneate, decurrent on the petiole, margin hyaline and minutely 
denticulate with cartilaginous teeth; 1-1} in. long, 4-3 in. wide, rather 
pale green, nerves obscure; petivle } in. long or less, eglandular ; 
stipules linear from a triangular base, very smal]. Spikes terminal on 
