Sapiicm.] ecthorbiace.e (Prain). 515 



pedicels of male flowers longer than bracts, of female flowers nearly 

 \ in. long, in fruit | in. long; male calyx 3-partite, lobes triangular, 

 toothed ; stamens 3 ; female calyx 3-sect, wide-triangular, cordate, 

 acute, toothed, with either a gland or a lanceolate toothed lacinula 

 at each sinus ; ovary glabrous, with 2 dorsal horns on each carpel ; 

 styles 3, shortly connate at the base; capsule ovoid, acute, \ in. 

 across, with a coriaceous separable somewhat wrinkled epicarp'and 

 a thick woody endocarp, breaking up into 3 2-valved cocci ; seeds 

 ovoid, grey, mottled with brown. Sclerocroton mtegerrimuSj HocJist. 

 in Flora, 1845, 85; Soml in Lmnsea, xxiii. 107. S. rcticulaius, 



Hochst, he. StllUngia integerrima^ BallL in Adansonia, iii. 1G2. 

 Exeoecaria JiocJisfefferiana, Miill Arg, in Linnsea, xxxii. 122, E. 

 integerrima, MiilL Arg. in DC. Frodr. xv. ii. 948. E. reticulata, 

 mai Arg. Ic. 1213 ; Wood, Natal Fl. L 10 ; Sim, For. Fl. Cape Coh 

 320, as to description mainlij] and in For, Fl, Port. E. Afr, 103, 

 niatnly, Tragia integerrima and T. yiatalenms, Hochsf. €.v Krams in 

 Flora^ 1845, 85, and ex Mull Arg. in DC, Frodr. xv. ii. 1214 ; Pax 

 zn Engl, Pflanzenr. Eupliorh. Hippoman, 245, 



Eastkrx Region : Poudoland ; St. Johns, Sim, 2422, parti v ! Xatal ; near Durban, 

 nOOft., Wood, 1012 ! 1033! 1417 ! 6529 ! Rehmann, 8984 ! Wilms, 1916 ! Clairmont, 

 Enghv, 2.o40 1 Inanda, Wood, 92! between Pinetown and Umbilo, Eehmann, 

 80381 and without precise Tocality, Gaelnzius, ! Kvauss, 351 I 4:6Sl Breje, -ISS? ! 

 Peddle ! Cooper, 1231 1 Williamson ! Gerrard, 83 1 Gerrard & McKen, mi f 

 Belagoa Bay ; near Louren^o Mar(;[ueSj Junod, 68 ! Sim ; Magaia, Schlcchter, 12046 1 



A very distinct species which, neverthelesSj so careful an observer as Souder in 

 1850 thought to be only a variety of the one next to be described. Sim, another 

 competent observer, has recently been led into the same misapprehension, and has 

 distributed under the same field-number, 2422, specimens of both these species. 

 Under the name Exccecaria reticulata, Sim based on these specimens a description 

 which covers both species, but has given a figure which represents only that one to 

 which the name E. reticulata does not apply. Bailloa in 1863 first pointed out that 

 Hochstetter in 1845 had given two n^me^^ Sclerocroton integerrimus and S. reticu- 

 tatus, to what are only two conditions of the same species, and that, of the^e two, 

 S, integerrimus is the name which should be used. Miiller, in the same year, 

 recognising this fact and, at the same time transferring the species to Exca^caria, 

 substituted for Hochstetter's two specific terms the new name E. hochstetteriana. 

 Realising the inadmissibility of the proposal, Muller in 1S66 first {DC, Prodr, xv. 

 ii. 948) usedthename E. integerrima, but later (/.^. 1213) altered it to E. reticulata. 

 In transferring the species from Excoicaria to Sapium, Tax has adopted the specific 

 riame finally employed by Muller. 



3. S. mannianum (Benth. in Benth. & Hook: f. Gen. Plant, iii. 



335); a tree of moderate to considerable size, glabrous except on 

 the inflorescences and the scaly portioniof the young twigs ; buds 

 perulate; scales coriaceous; twigs slender, drooping; leaves short- 

 petioled, alternate, firmly membranous to thinly coriaceous, oblong- 

 ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, acute to shortly cuspidate ; base cuneate 

 or rounded, minutely auriculate-cordate at point of junction with 

 the petiole, margin more or less toothed or rarely subentire, with 

 1-2 glands on each side along the base, 2i-6 in. long, f-2 in. wide ; 



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