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: sepala 6, ovata vel elliptica, oo subcarnosa, 125-15 mm. 
longa, 0-75 mm. lata ra; discus crenato-undulatus; 
ovarium 6-lobatum ; styli_ aeoraiiae) recurvati, bifidi. Capsula 
depressa, 6°5 mm. diametro, 6-lo bulata, obscure at 
stylorum vestigiis coronata. ‘Semina triquetra, laevia, pallide 
straminea. 
Troricat Arrica. Sierra Leone: Sendugu, June 22, 1914, 
N. W. Thomas 580. 
1614. eee priate Hutchinson [ Euphor- 
biaceae-Crotoneae]; affinis A. A. africanae, Mu ell. Arg., sed recep- 
taculis 6 glabris (nec villoso-y ibus), styli ramis e basi 
reflexis et breviter 2-lobatis (nec profunde partitis) differt. 
Arbor parva (dioica ?); ramuli floriferi circiter 1 cm. 
crassi, teretes, glabri. Folia magna, usque ad. 4 dm. 
denticulata vel subintegra, chartacea, glabra, infra delicate 
-reticulata; nervi laterales utrinsecus 16- 20, a costa sub angulo 
latissimo abeuntes, -marginem versus arcuati et evanidi, utrinque 
prominentes; nervi tertiarii numerosi,* cum lateralibus angulo 
recto unnsine paralleli, tenues ; petioli oI 3 cm. longi; stipulae 
caducae, terminales, lineares, acutae, citer 2 cm. longae, 
glabrae. Flores axillares, 6 dense tésionlati vel interdum sub- 
racemosi, Y in racemos axillares solitarins vel subsolitarios 
usque ad 6 cm. longos dispositi. Flores 6 niiiigoa ; pedicelli 
0°6-1 cm. longi, 2 mm. supra basin articulati et ceareayins 
superne glabri; bracteae 3, exteriore ceteras involventes lat 
ovato-orbiculare integro coriaceo circiter 5 mm. longo et 4 ane: 
lato superne ciliolato, duabus interioribus bulV ehaps cymbiformi- 
bus apice cucullatis et ciliolatis marginibus membranaceis; 
sepala 5, ovato- elliptica, 5.6 mm. ipa chartacea, apices 
a ear ieaatiaeag 
latus, inter lobulos staminibus numerosis insertis; filamenta 
circiter 5 mm. longa, gna superne verrucosis; ovarium 
rudimentarium nullum. Flores 2: bracteae pedicelli et peri- 
anthium ut in eae us 6 ; areca hypogynus crassus, lobulatus, 
inter lobulos staminodiis subulatis insertis; ovarium tomento- 
sum; styli e rai gece bilobulati, lobis acutis 1°25 mm. longis. 
ructus non visus 
Tropica, Arrica. Uganda: Namalala forest, July 1913, 6 
fis., Fyffe 19; 2 fis., ate Munyabake, Fyffe 64. 
The discovery of a species of this genus in Uganda is very 
interesting in that it forms a connecting link in its geographical 
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