512 EUFHOEBIACE.E (Prain). [3fa2^rounea, 



beneath, distinctly reticulate ; petiole -}-§- in. long, slender ; stipules 

 small, triangvilar ; spikes usually 2-sexual, male portion oblong or 

 ovoid, rarely subglobose, ^^ in. long, dense-floAvered ; female 

 flowers 1-3, basal, long-pedieelled ; pedicels in fruit Tip to 1\ in, 

 long ; male bracts narrow-lanceolate, acuminate from a broad base, 

 each 3-flowered and each with two 2-3-partite basal glands ; bracts 

 and flowers yellowish ; male calyx irregularly 2-3-lobed ; stamens 

 2-3, exserted ; ovary oblong ■ capsule brown, slightly 3-sulcate, 

 ■^-f in. across ; seeds black, subglobose, smooth, ^-^ in. long, 

 caruncle under ^ the size of body of seed. Hiern in Cat, Afi\ PL 



Wehv, i. 985, par%; De Wild. Miss. K Laurent, 141, and Etudes 

 FL Bas- et Moyen^Conrjo, ii. 289, ;parthf ; Tit. d' HSL Burovd^ Syll Fl 

 Congol, 499, partly ; S. Moore in Jonrn, Linn, Soc. Bot, xl. 204 ; 

 Praln in Dyer, FL Trap. Afr. vi, i. 1004 ; De Wild, Comp. Kasai, 

 342. M. ohiusa^ Pax in Enr/L Jalirh. xix. IIG, and in EngL Pfl, Ost- 

 Afr, G, 241. M. vaccimoides, Pax in EngL Jalirh. xix. 116. 

 ikf. africana, var, ohtusa, Pax ex Durand (i De Wild, in Bull. Sor, 

 Bot, Behj. xxxvii. 107, parthj ; Th. cO EeL Durand, SijlL FL GongoL 

 500, partly, M. africana, var. henguelensis, Pax &K, Hojfm, in EngL 

 Pflanzenr. Enphorh, Hippoman, 180, Exccccaria magonjensis, Siw, 

 For, FL Port, E, Afr. 104, t, 100 A. 



Eastern Region : Delagoa Bay ; Maputa, Sim 

 Also widely spread in Tropical Africa. 



XL. SPIROSTACHYS, Sond. 



Flowers monoecious; petals ; disc 0, Male: Calyx usually 

 5-Iobed, rarely 4-lobed, slightly imbricate in bud. Stamens 3 ; fila- 

 ments united throughout in a slender tube ; anthers free, dehiscing 

 longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary 0, Female : Calyx 5-lobed. 

 Ovary 3-celled, rarely 2-celIed ; ovules solitary in each cell ; styles 3, 

 rarely 2, distinctly connate below, entire. Capsule 3-coccous, rarely 

 :^-coccous ; cocci 2-valved. Seeds globose, ecarunculate ; albumen 

 fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. 



Trees or tsLrubs, everywhere glabrous ; leaves alternate ; spikes lateral, catkin- 

 like, with numerous male flowers above and a few basal female flow^ers, or 

 occasionally with the basal female flowers wanting. 



PiSTUiB. A single species rather widely spread in Africa to the south of Lat. 

 12^ S. 



ft 



1. S. africanus (Sond. in Linn^ea, xxiii. 106) ; a tree, reaclilag 



60 feet in beigbt, everywhere glabrous ; twigs slender ; leaves short- 

 petioled, alternate, firmly membranous and at length somewhat 

 coriaceous, oblong-ovate, obtuse, base rounded, 2-glandular at the 

 junction with the petiole, margin crenulate, about 2 in. long, 1 i^i- 

 wide, medium ^reen, paler beneath ; petiole -^^ in. long, channelled 



