486 A. T. GAGE. EUPHORBIACEAE. 



et tcnuiores, biglandulosi ; bractearum laminae 2 — 3.5 cm. longac, 3 — 11 mm. latae, nervis 

 lateralibus luimciosis intra margin arcuitcr anastomosantes et nervum intra-marginalem arcuatum 

 formantes; saepe lobi basilares i — 2, parvi, lanceolati vel triangulares ciim apice glanduloso 

 adsunt. Ramuli floriferi ex bractearum axillis solitarii, brèves, 5 — 8 mm. longi, in cynuilas 

 nonnullas parvas congestas minute bracteolatas divisi; bracteolae triangulares circa 0.5 mm. 

 longae, tomentosae, apice glanduloso. Flores 9 in cymulis centrales, flores cf '" ramulis cymulae 

 lateralibus. Flores cf pedicellati, pedicellis tenuibus, circa 2 mm. longis, teretibus, glabris vel 

 parcissime hirsutis; calyx ovoidea, circa 2 mm. longa; sepala 5, late ovata, tenuiter coriacea, 

 intégra, imbricata, utrinque glabra vel extus parce et minute hirsuta ; sepala 2 interiora quam 

 exterioribus minora; discus conicus truncatus, subcarnosus, columnam staminalem omnino 

 occultans, antheris coronatus; columna staminalis tenuis, glabra, teres, circa 0.5 mm. longa, 

 supra discum conicum brcviter bifida ; connectiva brevissima, lata; antherae 2 arcte oppositae ; 

 loculi 4, subglobosi minuti ad periphcriam conncctivae positi. Flores O brevissime pedicellati; 

 calyx circa 3 mm. longa aliter flori masculo similis; discus O; ovarium glabrum trilobatum, 

 circa 1.5 mm. crassum et i mm. longum, lobis rotundatis; stylus crassus, trigonus, angulis 

 rtitundatis, circa 1 mm. longus, apice abtuso cum apcrtura triangulari ; ovarii loculi 3, uniovulati ; 

 ovula suspensa. Fructus niaturus non visus. 



Dutrli Xew Ginnea : Xortb River near Bivak Island. |Puli.f., n. 48, September 1912]. 



I attributc this plant with some hésitation to thc genus Oi>iplialca. The arrangement 

 of the anthers départs from the typical pileiform mass, but on the other hand the foliose 

 bracts and the gênerai habit of the plant point to its being an Ûmphalea. 



? Botryophora Hook-.f 

 ^ ? Botryophora sj). 



Dutch Xew Giiinca : Xorth River near Kloofbivak. 30 m. [Pullk. n. 230, October 1912]. 



I place very tcntatively in Botryophora this curious plant, whicli is in malc flowcr 

 only and mostly only in bud. There is the same curious mass of stamens peltately attached 

 to a central pistillode looking réceptacle, as Hooker describes in Botryophora, only in this 

 case the stamens do not imbricata. 



