Bridelia.] cxxii. euphorbiace^e (hutchinson). 621 



Gold Coast: Aburi Hills, Brown, 931! Kwahu, Johnson, 657! and without precise 

 locality, Evans, 20! Lagos, Rowland! Southern Nigeria: Aboh, Barter, 173 1 

 Old Calat)ar, Thomson, 85! Holland, WW Camerooi.3 : Abonando, i2«</a^i>, 26! 

 45 ! Bipinde, Zenker, 1287 ! 2837 ! 3735 I Batatiga, Bates, 49 ! 157 I 



Wile X.ancl. Uganda; Toro, Dawe, 466! Usoga, Scott-Elliot, 7191 ! 



Ttovrer Guinea. Princes Island, Mann ! Island of St. Thomas, Quint as, 37 ! 

 Spaiiisli Guinea: Nkolentangan, Tessmann, 145! Lower Congo: islands near 

 Ponta da Lenha, Naumann. Angola : Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 360 ! 364 ! 

 Bumbo, Welwitsch, 371 ! 



nXozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa: Uluguru, Goe^ze, 138 ! Kilimanjaro; 

 Marangi), Volkens, 1398 1 Usambara ; Derema, Scheffier, 167 ! British Central 

 Africa : Nyusalaud ; Namasi, Cameron, 6 ! Sliire Highlands, Buchanan, 52 ! Scott- 

 Elliot, 855i I Zomba, Kirk! Purves, 213! Gazaland : Lower Umswirizwi River; 

 near Cliirinda, Swynnerton, 46 ! 536 ! 



Tliis appears to be a very variable species, especially in regard to the number of 

 lateral nerves in the leaves, a character which was >ised by Miiller to disiinguisli 

 B. stenocarpa, but as so many intermediate forms occur I have been compelled to 

 regard them «s forms of one species. 



Imperfectly known species, 



16. B. abyssinica^ Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xxxix. 680. A small, 

 unarmed tree. Leaves narrowly ovate, acuminate, up to 5 in. long and 

 If in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, shining, bright green below, margin 

 slightly undulate or subcrenulate ; lateral nerves 18-17 on each side. 

 Flowers glabrous. Male flowers : Sepals ovate - triangular, acute. 

 Petals minute, much smaller than the sepals. Disk thick, lobed. 

 Rudimentary ovary conical. Female flowers: Sepals and petals as in 

 the male. Ovary glabrous. Styles 2, bilobed. Fruit ellipsoid, acute, 

 about 4 lin. long, I -celled. — Gehrm. in Engl. Jahrb. xli. Beibl. 95, 40, 

 excl. var. densi flora. 



Wile !Land. Abyssinia : without locality, Rosen. 

 This is probably a form of B. micrantha, Baill. 



17. B. Mildbraediiy Gehrm. in Jahresh. Schles. Ges., zooU-hot, 

 sec^.,1908, 2. A small tree; branchlets pubescent, at length glabrous. 

 Leaves lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, 1J-4J in. long, |-lf in. broad; 

 lateral nerves produced to the margin ; petiole up to 5 lin. long, 

 tomentose. Flowers axillary, Ij lin. in diam., glabrous. Fruits 

 1-celled, globose, about 5 lin. in diam. — Fedde, Repert. viii. 575. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Wau Island, Lake Kiwu, Mildhraed, 

 1160. 



11. CLEISTANTHUS, Hook, f . ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. iii. 268. 



Flowers monoecious or dioecious. Petals usually present. Male 

 flower: Calyx-segments 5, valvate. Petals 5, or rarely absent, 

 scale-like, small. Disk entire or sinuately lobed. Stamens 5, as in 

 Bridelia : anther-cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary 



