^OtobuxibS.] CXXII. EUPHOKBIACEiB (hUTCHINSON). 611 



2-horned. Seeds oblong, keeled, black and shining. — Small trees or 

 shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire, chartaceous, shortly petiolate, penni- 

 nerved. Flowers subfasciculate or shortly cymose, the female solitary 

 and sessile or subsessile in the middle, surrounded by a few pedicellate 

 or subsessile males. 



Species 2, the following and another from Natal. 



1. N. acuminata, Hutchinso^i. A shrub or small tree, glabrous in 

 all its parts ; branches longitudinally sulcate or wrinkled, bright green ; 

 internodes J-l|: in. long. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate or slightly obovate- 

 elliptic, long and gradually acuminate to a subacute apex, ouneate at 

 the base, 2|-4 in, long, 1-lJ in. broad, entire, subchartaceous, bright 

 green ; lateral nerves 5-7 on each side, looped and branched well within 

 the margin, distinct and slightly prominent on both surfaces ; petiole 

 1-2 lin. long. Cymes axillary, few-flowered. Male flowers on pedicels 

 up to 5 lin. long. Perianth-segments 4, 1-lJ lin. long, J lin. broad. 

 Anthers ovoid, dehiscing longitudinally. Female flowers subsessile : 

 Perianth-segments 4. Ovary 3-celled. Capsule ovoid, about 5 lin. long 

 and 2J lin. in diam. Seeds triquetrous, convex on the back, black, 

 smooth and shining. — Macropodandra acuminata^ Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxviii. 114. 



South Central. Belgian Congo: Ituri region; forest near Wabadso, 

 Stuhlmann, 2647 ! 



Allied to Notohuxus natalensis, Oliv., from which it differs in the long-acuminate 

 leaves and the longer pedicels of the male flowers. 



10. BRIDELIA, Willd.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 267. 



Flowers monoecious or rarely dioecious, dichlamydeous. Male 

 flowers : Sepals 5, valvate. Petals 5, small, scale-like, clawed and spathu- 

 late, the limb often toothed. Disk entire or sinuatelylobed. Stamens 

 5 ; filaments connate in their lower part into a column in the centre of 

 the flower, their upper part free and spreading ; anther-cells parallel, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary inserted at the apex of 

 the staminal column, entire or divided. Female flowers: Sepals often 

 narrower than those of the male. Disk double, the outer part annular, 

 the inner often cupular and embracing the ovary. Ovary 2- (rarely 3-) 

 celled ; styles distinct or shortly connate at the base, bilobed or sub- 

 entire ; ovules 2 in each cell. Berry or drupe small, indehiscent ; 

 exocarp fleshy or pulpy ; endocarp crustaceous and hardened into 2 (or 

 by abortion 1) pyrenes. Seeds often solitary in each pyrene ; albumen 

 usually fleshy, deeply excavated on the inner face ; cotyledons broad and 

 thin. — Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire; secondary 

 nerves pinnate, the tertiary mostly parallel and prominent. Flowers 

 small, glomerate in the leaf-axils, rarely in spicate clusters, the males 

 numerous and subsessile, the females fewer or solitary, sometimes 

 distinctly pedicellate ; bracts small, scaly. Berries or drupes ovoid or 

 globose, small, smooth. 



