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limbo integro vel minopere undulato. Stamina circiter’ 10, 
exteriore 4, glandulis extrastaminalibus globosis glabris contiguis 
sed discretis cireumcincta. Calyx feminei anguste ovoideus, extra 
dense strigosus, 5 mm. longus; lobi 5, anguste lanceolati, acuti, 
eglandulosi. Petala 5, alba, orbicularia, imbricata, calycis lobis 
breviora. Discus urceolatus. Ovarium dense strigosum ; styli 3, 
singuli 2-partiti. Capsula dense strigosa, 8 mm. longa, in coccos 
2-valves dissiliens. 
TrxopicaL Arrica. Lower Guinea: Southern Nigeria; Oban 
- district, Talbot, 658 and 659 (Herb. Brit. Mus.). 
1333. Micrococca scariosa, Prain [Euphorbiaceae-Crotoneae] ; 
species nulli inter congeneres arcte affinis, bracteis rigidis bracteo- 
lisque maris plurimis scariosis pedicellos articulatos involventibus 
insignis, ideoque certissime saltem pro typo sectionis adhuc haud 
cognitae habenda. 
Frutex dioicus, 1-2-metralis, valde ramosus, ramis ramulisque 
glabris, cortice brunneo lenticellato. Folia alterna, breve petiolata, 
chartacea, ovato-oblonga, acuta vel breve acuminata, margine 
crenato-dentata vel subintegra, basi rotundata ibique minute 2-glan- 
dulosa, 7-13 cm. longa, 3-6°5 cm. lata; pallide viridia, utrinque 
glabra, penninervia, nervis utrinsecus 5-6 arcuatim ascendentibus 
prope marginem anastomosantibus subtus distincte elevatis ; petiolus 
-8 mm. longus, glaber, subcylindricus sed supra anguste canali- 
culatus ; stipulae subulatae, 5 mm. longae, glabrae, caducae. Spicae 
rigidiusculae ; rhachides 5-15 cm. longae, distincte interruptae, 
subtrigonae, virides, glabrae, laterales, oppositifoliae vel infra folia 
secus ramos ramulosque orientes, maris fasciculatae, feminei singulae ; 
bracteae lanceolatae, rigidae, inter se 2-6 mm. distantes, 2-3 mm. 
longae ; bracteolae maris scariosae, obtusae, plurimae, 1 mm. longae, 
feminei rigidae, lineares, binae, 1°5 mm. longae ; pedicelli articulati, 
maris 2 mm. longi, dimidio infra articulationem complanato angulis 
acutis sub lente ciliolatis, dimidio supra articulationem terete glabro, 
feminei demum 4 mm. longi. Flores maris glomerati singillatim 
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ovata, acuta, margine sub lente ciliolata, ceterum glabra, imbricata. 
Discus hypogynus e glandulis 6 (an semper 6?) oblongis contiguis 
_liberis labrum ; 
style 3, a basi liberi, subreflexi, ut videtur apice tantum fimbriati : 
ovula in quoque loculo solitaria. Capsula (singula tantum visa) 
(ence bere one septicide dissiliens, 
ROPICAL AFRICA. German East Africa: Monyouni, Sacleur 
1630 (Aug. 1891); Amboni forest, near Tanga, Sacleux, 1630 (1897). 
e have only been able to examine the analysis of a single female 
flower, and have only seen a single fruit; the latter, however, 
ready shows the commencement of septicidal dehiscence without 
any trace of .the loculicidal opening which probably ultimately 
