400 EUPHOKBiACE^ (Hutchinsoii). [A7itides7nf f . 



or consisting of distinct glands alternating Avith the stamens. 

 Stamens 2-5, opposite the calyx-lobes ; anthers inflexed in ))ud, erect 

 in the open flower ; cells distinct at the apex of a thickened 

 and often curved connective. Rudimentary ovary small. Female 

 flowers : Calyx as in the male. Disc often shortly embracing the 

 l)ase of the ovary. Ovary 1 (very rarely 2-) celled ; styles 3, very 

 short, usually 2-l()bed ; ovules 2 in the cell. Drupes small, often 

 ublique. Seed solitary by abortion (very rarely 2), without a 

 strophiole ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons flat, broad. 



Trees or sliiubs ; leaves alternate ; flowers small, racemose or spicate ; racemes 

 or spikes often very slender, solitary or more rarely subpaniciilate towards the 

 ends of short branch! ets ; bracts small, usually ciliate. 



DiSTUTB. About 80 specie.-^j distributed throughout the warmer regions of the | 



Old World. 



1. A, venosum (TuL in Ann. Sci. Nat. 3me ser. xv. 232) ; a 

 shrub or tree about 30 ft. high ; leaves usually more or less elliptic 

 or oblanceolate, somewhat rounded or subacute at the base and 

 apex, gometiiues slightly emarginate, up to 6 in. long and 2|- in. 

 broad, thinly coriaceous or almost membranous, glabrous or pube- 

 scent above, varying from thinly pubescent to tomentose below ; 

 lateral nerves usually 7 on each side, more or less distinctly looped, 

 slightly impressed above, prominent below ; petiole up to 3 lin, 

 long, pubescent ; stipules lanceolate, entire, acute, mostly more or 

 less tomentose; male spikes up to 6 in. long, tomentose or pube- 

 scent ; bracts very small ; calyx S-o-partite, more or less pubescent 

 or tomentose ; disc subglabrous ; stamens 3-5 j rudimentary ovary 

 pilose or subglabrous ; female racemes 2-5 in. long ; bracts as in 

 the male ; fruits pedicellate, ellipsoid, slightly flattened, glabrous, 

 about 4 lin. long and 2^ lin. broad. Harv, Thes, Cap, ii. 45 ; MiilL 

 Arg, in DC Prodr. xv. ii. 260 ; Pax tn Engl Pfl. Ost-Afr. G.^ 237, 

 and in Baiim, Kvnenc-Samb. Exped. 282 ; Durand & Schinz, Etude» 

 Fl Conge, 243 ; Hiern In Cat Afr, PI Wchv, i. 965 ; De Wild, ii 

 Durand, Lontr, Fi: Congo, i. 49, and Bellq. Dewevr, 206 ; De Wild. 



ttudes FL Katanga, 79, and Miss. K Laurent, 128; Tit, & SeL 

 Durand, Syll Fl Congol 484 ; Sim, For. FL Cape Col 313, /. cxiii 

 Jig, iv. ; RutcJiinson in Dyer, FL Trop. Afr. vi. i. 646. A. venosum, 

 var. thouarsianum, TuL Lc. 234. A. hifrons, TuL Ic. 229. A- 

 rufescens, TuL Z.c. 231. A. hoivinianum^ BailL Adansonia, ii. 45. 

 A. naialeyisis, Harv. Thes. Cap. ii 45, t 169, hy error. A. mem- 

 hranaceum, var. molle, MiilL Arg, Ic. 261 ; Biern, Lc. ; Bendle in 

 Journ, TAnn. Soc. xxxvii. 211^; S. Moore in Journ, Linn. Soc. xl. 

 194. A, nervosum, De Wild. Eludes FL Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 270. 



A. venosu)a, forma glabrescens, De Wild. Etudes FL Katanga, 79. 

 A, fusco-cinerea, Beille in Ball Soc. BoL France, Iv. Mem. viii. 64. 

 A. Sassandree, Beille, Lc. Ivi. Mem. viii. 123. 



Kalahari Regiox: Transvaal ; Avoea, near Barberton, Galpin, 1249! between 

 Louws Creek and Adamanda Mine, Barberton district, Burtt-Davy, 2812!: 



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