6lO ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS 



Africa. Yields fibre Manniophyton Mucll. Arg. 



Styles 3-8-cleft. Leaves pt-niimcrved. — Species 12. West Africa. (Under 

 Crotonogyne Muell. Arg.) Neomanniophyton Pa.x & Hoffm. 



18. Young branches, leaves, and inflorescencr clothed with scales .... 19 

 Young branches, leaves, and inflorescence clothed with hairs or glabrous . 20 



19. Stamens 7-15. Receptacle of the male flowers with 5 glands, glabrous within 



them. Male inflorescence spicate. — Species 2. Equatorial West Africa. 



Crotonogyne Muell. Arg. 

 Stamens 20-30. Receptacle of the 'male flowers with 10 glands, also glan- 

 dular within them. Male inflorescence paniculate. — Species 1. Equatorial 

 West Africa Cyrtogonone Prain 



20. Fruit a drupe. Disc of the female flowers obscure or reduced to small glands. 



Stamens 8-20. Anthers attached by the base. Trees with stellate, rarely 

 with simple hairs. Leaves palminerved. Flowers in terminal cymes or 

 panicles. — Species 2. Cultivated and naturalized in the tropics. They 

 yield timber, gum-lac, tanning bark, dye-stuffs, and edible cily seeds (candle- 

 nuts) Aleurites Forst. 



Fruit a capsule. Disc of the female flowers ring- or cup-shaped. Anthers 

 attached by the tip or the back, sometimes near the base. Flowers in 

 racemes, rarely in panicles, but then leaves penninerved. Glabrous or 

 simple-haired shrubs or trees 21 



21. Receptacle of the male flowers glandular on the whole surface, but without 



separate glands. Stamens 20-30. Anther-halves pendulous from the 

 connective. Flowers in axillary racemes. — Species I. Islands of Femando- 

 Po and St. Thomas. (Under Agrostistachys Dalz.) 



Pseudagrostistachys Pax tS: Hoffm. 



Receptacle of the male flowers with separate glands. Anther-halves attached 



by the back. Flowers in terminal racemes or panicles 22 



22. Stamens 20-30. — Species 3. W'cst Africa. (Including Fournaea Pierre) 



Grossera Pax 

 Stamens 8-12. Flowers in racemes 23 



23. Petals of the female flowers shorter than the calyx. Sepals of the female 



flowers free. Flowers dioecious. — Species 2. East Africa. (Under Tavnodia 



Baill.) Holstia Pax 



Petals of the female flowers exceeding the calyx. Sepals of the female 

 flowers united at the base. — Species 2. East Africa . Tannodia Baill 

 Page 313, No. 30, line 7, add : (Including Psetidotragia Pax). 

 „ 313, No. 31, line 5, for "Species 20," read: Species 12. 

 „ 313, No. 48, emit lines 1-3, as Pseudotragia Pax belongs to Plukenetia L. 

 ,, 316, No. 55, line 3, after " medicine " add : (Including iJjscoc/flüAy/o« Pax & Hoffm.) 

 ,, 316, No. 56, line 7, add : (Including Chloropaiane Engl.). 



,, 316, No, 57, after line 6, insert : Disc of the female flcwers formed of 6-8 scales. 

 Styles recurved, undivided. Stamens 7. Calyx 5-partite. Flowers in panicles. 



— Species 1. West Africa Discoglypremna Prain 



„ 316, No. 61, line 3, add: Bracts not forming an involucre. Petals membranous. 



Plants clothed with stellate hairs. (Under Mildbraedia Pax). 

 ,, 316, No. 61, after line 3, insert: Flowers dioecious. Bracts forming an involucre. 

 Petals leathery. Plants clothed with simple hairs. — Species 1. West Africa 



(Cameroons) Chlamydojatropha Pax & Hoffm. 



„ 317, No. 66, at end, add : Stamens numerous. Ovary 1-celled. Stigma 1, entire. 

 Flowers in racemes, dioecious. — Species 1. West Africa. The seeds vield oil. 



(Under Daphniphyllum Blume) Plagiostyles Pierre 



Stamens numerous. Ovary 3-cclled. Stigmas 3, entire. Flowers in racemes, 

 dioecious. — Species 1. West Africa. (Under Plukenetia L.) . Hamilcoa Prain 

 ,, 317, No. 70, line 6, read : [Excoecariopsis Pax, under Excoecana L ) 



Splrostachys Sond. 

 „ 318, No. 72, line 7, add: (Under Sapium P. Browne or Sebastiaiiia Spreng.} 

 ,, 318, No. 74, line 3, for " Species 3," read : Species C, 



