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Very closely allied to E. malgcemly: Prain, with which it agrees 
as regards its female flowers, but from which it is readily dis- 
tinguished by its foliage. 
1260. Erythrococca Poggeophyton, Prain [Euphorbiaceae-Cro- 
toneae]; species e grege E. subspicatam, Prain, includente sed foliis 
margine crenatis nec denticulatis et disco hypogyno 2-seriato 
somtoee’ distinguenda, 
rutex monoicus, ramulis primum Sait etante demum fere 
m 
sonnet diapositl pedunculi 0°5 cm. longi et rhachides y 
10 cm, usque longae parce pubescentes ; pedicelli glabri, 2°5 mm. 
longi, utriusque sexus solitarii, prope basin articulati ; bracteae 
minutae, ovato-lanceolatae, pubescentes, imae 5-6 flores masculos 
ceterae femineos subtendentes. Calyx maris viridis, in alabastro 
globosus minute apiculatus, extra versus apicem pubescens, dein 
paulo ultra medium 4-partitus ; lobi membranacei; tubus late cam- 
panulatus, Stamina 9; exteriora 5, cetera centralia; filamenta 
loculos antherarum subglobosos excedentia ; glandulae receptacu- 
lares ovoideo-oblongae, | apice hirsutae, filamentis aequilongae ; 
exteriores 10 annulum extrastaminalem efficientes, ceterae juxta- 
staminales. Calyx femineus quam masculus paulo minor ; lobi 3, 
margine minute ciliati. Ovarium glabrum, 3-loculare ; stigmata 3, 
libera, patula, a basi fimbriato-laciniata. Diéscus hypogynus 2-seri- 
atus ; interior e staminodiis 3 cum carpidiis alternantibus fila- 
mentis See subeylindrico-clavatis apice antherarum locellos 
cassos suffulcientibus compositus ; exterior e glandulis 5 apice 
hirsutis glandulis maris receptacularibus consimilibus sed jatioribus 
annulum extrastamodialem efficientibus compositus. Capsula gibi, 
vel 2-cocca didyma, vel casu abortuque monococca ; cocci 6 m 
lati, loculicide dehiscentes. Semina arillo rubro vix coupes 
involuta, testa brunnea minute foveolato - reticulata. ae geo- 
phyton _—e Pax in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix, 89; & 
Schinz, Etud. Fl. Cong. 245; Engl. in Sitz. Preuss. Akad. Wise. 
XXXViil. vg Dur. Syll. FI. Cong. 490, 656. 
TRoPICAL AFRICA. he Central : Congo State; Kasai 
Dist., on the Lulua, Pogge, 13 
A very interesting species pitch aki on account of the double 
hypogynous disk. The male flowers are borne on the lower part o 
the female rachises, but are solitary like female ones and not 
glomerulate as is the rule with the male flowers im this aise 
The hypogynous scales, which in most other species of the a 
alternate with the carpels and subtend the ovary, are in E. Pi 
phyton replaced by well-developed staminodes ; these siicitaodes 
are surrounded by an extra-staminodial ring of glands exactly 
like the $i teasininel ring of receptacular elands met with in 
the male flowers of a considerable proportion of the species of 
Erythrococca. The fact that the female inflorescence is abnormal 
