Tabula 2897. 



SAPIUM LANCEOLATUM, Huber. 



EUPHORBIACEAE, THbuS CrOTONEAE. 



S. lanceolatum, Higher in Bull. Herh Boiss. ser. 2, vol. vi. 

 p. 441> f. 33 ; jS. frunifolio, Klotzsch, simile, recedit foliis tenuioribuSj 

 apice involutis supra nitidis, venis sat conspicnis et inflorescentiae 

 glandulis majoribus elongatis. 



Arbor novellis glaberrimia ; rami florigeri breves. lolia alterna 



f)etiolata, jnniora tantnm visa ; lamina membranacea, anguste oblongo- 

 anceolata, 5-10 cm. longa, apice cucuUato-incurva, basi cimeata, 

 margine obscure serrulata, venis primariis lateralibus numerosis incon- 

 spicuis ; petiolus gracilis, 1-2 cm. longus, glandulis parvis divergentjbus, 

 Spicae androgynae, graciles, folia vix excedentes ; glandulae lineari- 

 oblongae, circiter 3 mm. longae, oblique collaterales. Flores 

 mascuU minuti, 6-^8-ni aggregati, Flares feminei perfecti non visi ; 

 periautliium tubulosum, trideutatum, ovarium includens, stylis jam 

 delapsis. — S* higlandidosnm var, lanceolata, Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea, 

 voL xxxii. p, 118. Excoecaria gJandnlosa var. lanceolata, MuelL-Arg. 

 in DC, Prodr. vol xv. 2, p. 1206. excl subvar, hngifdlia, fide Huber. 



Fhknch Guiaka : Cayenne, Poitmu \ Hes du Salut, Sagot, 514. 



Poiteau's specimen is very young and extremely fragile and Sagot*s 

 consists of a branch bearing only leaves, apparently quite young, and 

 fragments of a detached capsule. The relatively long, narrow glands 

 of the inflorescence are characteristic.^— W. Botting Hemsley. 



Fig. 1, base of a leaf with petiolar glands ; 2, apex of a leaf ; 3, part of flower- 

 Bpike, bearing one cluster of male flowers and the subtending glands, bract and 

 bracteoles ; 4, a male flower ; 5. a female flower, glands, bract and bracteolea ; 

 6, ovary, crowned with scar of the deciduous style-arms; 7» longitudinal i:ection 

 uf an ovarv ; 8, oro.s^ section of the same.. All enlarged. 



