378 EUPHORBIACEAE. 



OLDFIELDIA. 



dulis duabus obliquis parvis instructus. Foliola 5— 7, mnjora 4 — 6-pollicaria vel lon- 

 giora, breviter petiolulata oblonga acurainata, basi longe angustata, submembranacen, 

 penninervia & reticulato-venosa glabra impunctata & eglandulosa, lateralia minora &• 

 proportione latiora. Capsulae pedicello semipollicari fultae 9— lOlin. diametro, verticc 

 obtusissimae glabrae laeves, laleribus (ad dehiscentiam) leviter sulcatis. — Habitat in 

 Africa tropica ad fl. Nigrum. 



5864. SECURISTEGA Commers. 



(Commers. mss. ex Juss. Gen. pl. 388. — Adr. Juss. Euphorb. 14. tab. 2.) 



S. ABYSSINICA A. Richard, Tent. flor. Abyss. II. 256. — Frutex altitudinis humanae 

 caule ramoso; ramis lignosis quadrangularibus subverrucosis glabris; foliis alternis 

 breviter petiolatis obovali- suborbicularibus obtusissimis integris glabris; stipulis par- 

 vulis ovali-acutis; floribus an dioicis?, masculis parvulis pedicellatis in axilla foliorum 

 fasciculatis; calyce 3— 4— 5-partito, laciniis ovali-acutis, margine fimbrialis; staminibus 

 3 — 4 — 5 omnino liberis exsertis, disco glanduloso Iobato circa ovarium abortivum di- 

 stylum impositis, antheris introrsis subdidymis; floribus foemineis in diversis ramis 

 (an in eodem frutice?) axillaribus 1 — 2 pedicellatis ; fructu globoso - depresso, externe 

 carnoso, bi — trinuculato; nuculis chartaceo - osseis dispermis; seminibus triquetris 

 externe convexis. — Phyllanthus polygamus Hochst. mss. — Habitat in Abyssiniae fru- 

 ticetis juxta Tchelatchekanne. 



5880. PERA Mittis. 



(Mutis, Act. acad. Holm. 1784. p. 299. tab. 8. — Peridium Schott in Spr. Cur. post. 410.) 



1 P. (PERIDIUM) OBLONGIFOLIA Bnth. in Hook. Kew gard. misc. II. 243. f — Foliis 

 petiolatis oblangis obtusis, basi angustalis, supra glabris nitidis, subtus ramulisque 

 lepidotis; involucris masculis globosis ferrugineis. — Folia 3 — 4 poll. longa , 1 — l l /« 

 poll. lata. — In Brasilia Paraensi. 



