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Excipula nigro-cincta, Massee. 
_ Perithecia innato - erumpentia, cupulata, subcoriacea, glabra, 
pallida, nigro-marginata, circa 300u diametro. Conidia continua, 
ad wee ellipsoidea, 30-35 x 10-12n. 
JAV n leaves of Hoya, F. W. Moo 
Distinguished from all known species by the pallid disk, surrounded 
by a black margin. 
~ XX—DIAGNOSES AFRICANAE: XLVII. 
1331. Argomuellera sessilifolia, Prain { Kuphorbiaceae-Crotonae]; 
species ab A. macrophylla, Pax, foliis glabris sessilibus basi rotun- 
datis facillime distinguenda. 
Fruter vel arbor parva, ramulis fusco-pubescentibus. Folia 
sessilia, chartacea, oblanceolato-oblonga, obtuse acuminata apice 
mucronulata, a quadrante summo versus basin angustam rotundatam 
attenuata, margine minute remote denticulata, utrinque glabra, 
35 em. longa, 7-5-9 em. lata; stipulae fusco-pubescentes, lanceolatae, 
1-2-1°8 cm. longae. Aacemi ex axillis superioribus plures, 15-22 
em. longi, rhachide gracili pubescente ; bracteae patentes, ovatae, 
‘acutae; flores glomerulati, glomerulis pores masculos plures femineum 
solitarium centralem includentibus. * ¢ Sepala 4 a 3, erecta, 
ovato-lanceolata, 3 mm. longa. tamina plurim filamenta 
glandulis interstaminalibus apice hirsutis consociata. Be Sepala 6, 
rarius 5, distincte 2-seriata, interiora angustiora, ovata, acuta. 
Ovarium 3-loculare, pubescens ; styli recurvi, superne intus longit- 
rorsum stigmatici, basi connati. Capsula subglobosa, plus minusve 
3-sulca, in coccos 2-valves a cae extra pubescens, 8 mm. lata. 
Semina globosa, cinerea, maculis brunneis notata, 4 mm 
TROPICAL AFRICA. fictite Guinea: Gaboon ; Ogowé,. Thollon, 
41. 
1332. Crotonogyne strigosa, Prain [| Euphorbiaceae-Crotoneae] ; 
species C. Poggei, Pax, et C. impeditae, Prain, quam maxime affinis ; 
ab illa corolla maris margine subintegra nec distincte 5-loba stamini- 
busque paucioribus, ab hac glandulis extrastaminalibus discretis, 
corollaeque tubo intus glabro, ab ambabus indumento  strigoso 
Folia Rene sparsa, breve petiolata, Paes aa obov: 
oblanceolato-oblonga, apice longiuscule acuminata a a summo 
gradatim deorsum angustata, ipso basi anguste rotundata vel 
truncata, eglandulosa, margine integra, parce strigosa, 17-30 cm. 
longa, 6-10 cm. lata, saturate viridia, utrinque secus nervos parce 
strigosa ; cabs 6-10 mm. eer ense ily. che 3; stipulae 
