Sapium. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACE# (PRAIN). 1013 
the twigs, 14-2} in. long, with many rather dense male flowers above 
and 1-2 basal female flowers, in both sexes very shortly pedicelled and 
solitary to their bracts; bracts 3-lobed, central lobe lanceolate, acute, 
twice as long as the two lateral suborbicular glandular lobes. Male: 
Calyx deeply 3-sect ; lobes triangular, denticulate. Stamens 3, hardly 
exserted. Female: Calyx 3-partite; lobes suborbicular, denticulate, 
eglandular., Ovary glabrous, not horned ; styles 3, almost free. Capsule 
not seen ripe; its valves thinly crustaceous. Seeds narrow-ovoid, 
smooth, yellow.—Hacecaria faradianensis, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. 
France, lvii. Mém. viii. 128. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea: Faradiana, Chevalier, 610! between 
Karokaro and Niana, Chevalier, 2611 ! 
A very distinct species, readily recognised by its hyaline and denticulate leaf- 
margins. Beille describes the cocci of the unripe capsule as appendaged on the back. 
There is, however, no trace of appendages on the ovary itself in the flowers examined 
by us and the appearance described, which is also met with in young capsules of 
S. Grahami, is perhaps the result of irregular shrinking of the thin cupsule-walls in 
drying. The species is most nearly allied to S. Grahamt. 
6. S. armatum, Pax & K. Hoffm. in Engl. Planzenr. Euphorb.- 
Hippoman. 244, fig. 46 #. A shrub or small tree, reaching 15-16 ft. in 
height, everywhere glabrous; twigs slender, perulate at the base; 
Scales oblong, obtuse. Leaves short-petioled, papery or thinly coria- 
ceous, ovate or oblong-ovate, more or less cuspidately acuminate, base 
rounded, minutely auriculate-cordate but not glandular at the point of 
Junction with the petiole, margin minutely crenate, 4-5 in. long, 1}- 
2+ in. wide, dark green above, paler beneath; lateral nerves 9-10 on 
each side; petiole slender, }-4 in. long, slightly channelled above ; 
Stipules very caducous, not seen. Spikes terminal on the twigs, male 
portion not seen, with usually 2 distinctly pedicelled basal female flowers ; 
female bracts ovate, } in. long, eglandular, with ciliately laciniate 
margins, each 1-flowered; pedicels in fruit 4-% in. long. Female: 
Calyx deeply 3-sect ; lobes wide-ovate, acute, denticulate, with a small 
or large gland at each sinus. Ovary glabrous, with 2 short triangular 
borns on the back of each carpel ; styles 3, shortly connate at the base. 
Capsule deeply 3-dymous, when fully ripe } in. across, with a coriaceous 
Separable somewhat reticulately wrinkled epicarp and a very thick woody 
endocarp, breaking up into three 2-valved cocci, each coccus with a short 
triangular coriaceous acute appendage } in. long. Seeds rather wide- 
ovoid, grey or yellowish with minute scattered brown specks. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Lindi; Mayanga, Busse, 2541! 
Rondo ; Lutamba Lake, Braun, 1159! Pugu, Holtz, 1069! 
_ 7. S. cornutum, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 114. A shrub or small 
tree, 4-15 ft. high, glabrous everywhere; twigs slender, perulate at 
the base, scales wide-oblong, obtuse. Leaves short-petioled, at first 
membranous, soon chartaceous, when fully mature coriaceous, ovate or 
oblong, shortly to distinctly cuspidately acuminate, base subcordate 
or rounded or shortly wide cuneate, minutely auriculate-cordate but 
