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Flores minuti in racemos axillares spiciformes breve pedunculatos 
dispositi ; pedunculi 5-6 mm. longi, parce pubescentes ; rhachides 
glabri vel parce pubescentes, a ad 10 cm. usque longi; pedicelli 
glabri, masculi 2°5 mm. ongi, glomerati vel nonnunquam basin 
racemi versus in spiculas minutas 6-10-floras subremotas aggregati, 
rope basin articulati; feminei 2 mm. longi medio articulati ; 
bracteae minutae, ovato-lanceolatae, pubescentes, masculae pluri- 
florae, femineae 1-florae. alyx maris viridis, 4-partitus, raro 
5~partitus, in alabastro ‘globosus ciate apiculatus, extra versus 
apicem parce hirsutus ; lobi paulo ultra neue partiti ; tubus late 
campanulatus. Stamina 12; exteriora 6, cetera centralia ; ; fila- 
menta loculos antherarum subglobosos excedentia ; glandulae recep- 
tponlares oblongae, apice hirsutae, filamentis aequilongae ; exteriores 
2 per paria basi connatae sed paribus inter se Loe ceterae 
bee Calyx femineus minutus ; lobi 3, margine minute 
ciliati. Ovarium glabrum, 3-loculare ; stigmata 3, libera, patula, 
a basi fimbriato-laciniata. Discus hypogynus e squamis 3 cum 
carpidiis alternantibus ovato-lanceolatis complanatis compositus. 
Capsula 3-cocea, vel 2-cocca didyma, raro monococeca ; cocci 6 mm. 
lati, loculicide dehiscentes. Semina arillo rubro fere complete i invo- 
luta, testa brunneo-nigrescens, se foveolato - reticulata.— 
ld. 
aculeata, De Wi r. Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. sér. 2, i. 50 et 
sér 3, ii. tind Dur. Be ry Cong 491 a parte: nec Benth. 
TroprcaL AFR Gui : French Congo ; 
Oubangi. Krebedji, Fort Sitar, "Uhabaiise: “3617. South Central : 
Congo State ; Equatorial Province, Coquilhatville, Dewevre, 692. 
Very nearly allied to Poggeophyton aculeatum, Pax. (Engl. Bot. 
Jahrb. xix. 89), which is also better referred to bites but 
differing in the broader, denticulate, not crenate leaves. The 
hypogynous disk glands in the two also differ to some seler 
1259, Erythrococca Laurentii, Prain | Euphorbiaceae-Crotoneae] ; 
species EH. subspicatae, Prain, quam maxime affinis sed foliis 
margine obscure crenulatis petiolisque brevioribus latioribus facile 
distingue nda. 
Frutex ramulis glabris, cortice viridescente lenticellato ; gemmae 
perulatae squamis persistentibus. Folia breve petiolata, mem- 
ranacea, ovata, acute acuminata, basi cuneata, margine obscure 
crenulata, 7-8 cm. longa, 35-4 em. lata, saturate a glabra ; 
longi, prope basin articulati. a Ss femineus minutus ; : * Jobi 3, 
margine minute ciliati. Ovarium glabrum, 3-loculare ; stigmata 3, 
libera, patula, a basi fimbriato-laciniata. Discus hypogyn nus € 
squamis 3 cum carpidiis alternantibus ovato-lanceolatis complanatis 
compositus. Capsula ignota.—E. aculeata, De Wild. Miss. 
Laurent 129; Dur. Syll. Fl. Cong. 491 pro parte: nee Benth. 
Tropica, Arrica. South Central: Congo State; Aruwimi 
Dist., Lie, Laurent. 
