Sapium. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEE (PRAIN). 1017 
23-6 in. long, 3-2 in. wide, dark to pale green above, always paler 
beneath ; lateral nerves 7-12 on each side; petiole slender, 4-} in. long, 
slightly channelled above; stipules ovate-triangular, acute, usually soon 
deciduous. Spikes terminal, 2-43 in. long, rather stout, sessile, with 
many rather dense shortly pedicelled male flowers above and 1-3 
distinctly pedicelled basal female flowers; male bracts small, orbicular- 
ovate, obtuse, denticulate, 2-glandular at the base, each 3—7-flowered ; 
female bracts ovate, acute, each 1-flowered; pedicels in both sexes 
exceeding the bracts, female in flower about twice as long as the male. 
Male: Calyx deeply and unequally 2-3-fid, puberulous like the bracts 
and pedicels ; lobes obtuse. Stamens 2, occasionally 3, shortly exserted. 
Female: Calyx deeply 3-partite, sometimes with intercalary glandular 
lacinule. Ovary glabrous, not horned, 2- (rarely 3-) celled; styles 2, 
very rarely 3, connate in their lower third. Capsule coriaceous, hardly 
dehiscent, usually markedly 2-dymous, occasionally by abortion 1-coccous, 
$ in. across; pedicel in fruit 4-2 in. long. Seeds subglobose, pale 
brown.—Pax in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 161; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 
i. 986; De Wild. Miss, E. Laurent 141, mainly, and in Etudes Fl. Bas- 
et Moyen-Congo, i. 279, wholly, and ii. 288 (Eala and Umangi specimens 
only); Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 213; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. 
Fl. Congol. 500, in part only; 8. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 204, 
8. abyssinicum, Benth. 1.c. ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 285; Pax 
in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Atr. C. 241. S. Kerstingii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 
85. 8. elliptiowm, Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Hippoman. 255. 
Selerocroton ellipticus, Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 85; Sond. in Linnea, 
xxii. 107; Baill. Etude Gén. Euphorb. 523, t. 8, fig. 17. Stillingia 
elliptica, Baill, Adansonia, iii. 162. Hacecaria indica, Miill. Arg. in 
Linnea, xxxii. 123 and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1216, partly, and as to the 
African plant only. 2. manniana, Miill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 433, and 
in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1217. Z. reticulata, Sim, For. Fl. Cap. Col. 320, 
partly, t. 140, fig. 2, wholly, and in For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 103, partly ; 
not of Miill. Arg. TZragia elliptica, Hochst. ex Mill. Arg. in DC. 
Prodr. xy. ii. 1216; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Hippoman. 253. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Farana on the Niger, Scott-Hiliot, 
! near Kurusu, Scott-Elliot, 5508! Togo: various localities, 1300 ft., 
Kersting, 43! 106! 226! 325! 391! 580! Northern Nigeria: Kataguru, 
Dalziel, 423! Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 2536! 3271! 3272 partly! 3286! 
3320 partly! 4103! Buea, 3300 ft., Deistel, 39! Ngom, 3100 ft., Ledermann, 2069 ! 
Tapare, 4300 ft., Ledermann, 2130! ‘Tchape Pass, 4700 ft., Ledermann, 2805! 
Mba, 3700 ft. Ledermann, 5529! Lom, 600-1000 ft., Ledermann, 6329! 
North Central. Bagirmi: Senoussi Country; Ndelli, Chevalier, 7659 ! 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Amhara, Rosen / Amhasea, 6000 ft., Schimper, 565 ! 
Begemeder, Schimper, 871! 884! 1691! Adoa, Schimper, 2039! Uganda: 
Unyoro ; Budonga Forest, 3500 ft., Bagshawe, 1492! east side of Lake Albert 
Edward, Scott-Elliot, 8064! ‘Yoro, 5000 ft., Dawe, 461 | Ankole ; Musozi, Bagshawe, 
145! Kampala, Whyte! Lubwas, Whyte! Entebbe, 4000 ft., Winkler, 4138! 
Scott-Elliot, 7182! Mahon! Dawe! 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas: at 2000 ft., Mann, 1056! Lower 
Congo: Mayumbe, Temvo, Laurent! Cataracts district; Kitobola, Laurent / 
Stanley Pool district; Kisantu, @il/et,1031 {| Makela, Van Houlte, 3443! Angola: 
