200 
Frutez scandens (Kirk). Ramuli leviter costati, juniores 
pilosuli, vetustiores glabri. olia ovata, apice breviter_acu- 
minata, basi cordata vel subtruncata, 5-7 em. longa, 35-45 em. 
lata, inconspicue crenata vel subintegra, chartacea, supra glabra, 
ioli 2-4 cm. longi, 
35-4 mm. lata, nitida, glabra, endospermio corneo.—G. 
longipetala, Hems]. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 388 (1868), 
quoad fructum. 
Distr. Portuguese Hast Africa: Shupanga, Kirk (1860). 
5. G. Sereti, De Wild. in Ann. Mus. Congo, Sér. V. ii. 40 
(1907). 
DistriB. Belgian Congo: on the borders of the forest between 
Niangara and Gumbari, Seret 448. 
XXXVII.—A NEW EUPHORBIA FROM ST. HELENA. 
A. THELLUNG and O. Starr. 
In the Report on the Botany of the Atlantic Islands Hemsley 
enumerated a doubtful Huphorbia Chamaesyce which since 
Burchell s day had repeatedly been collected in St. Helena where 
it was known as “‘ French Grass.’? He says of it ‘‘ We have 
been unable to match this, but in a genus like Euphorbia we 
shrink from founding a new species upon what may be only a 
slightly altered state of some well-known one, or even exactly 
the Same as a described species, Roxburgh treated it as an 
introduced plant, and named it Huphorbia rosea, which it is 
i s expressed 
1s opmion that it is probably indigenous.’’ Recently Dr. 
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