626 cixii. EUPHORBiACEiE (prain). [Aristoyeitonta. 



often solitary by abortion in each coccus, ovoid; testa crustaceous, 

 shining. — A tree. Leaves alternate, 1-foliolate or digitately 2-3-folio- 

 late, long-petioled ; leaflets sessile, entire, coriaceous, penninerved ; 

 stipules distinct, subulate. Flowers in small fascicles on old wood in 

 axils of fallen leaves, 

 A single emiemic species. 



1. A. limoniifoliay Prain in Kew Bulletin^ 1908, 438. A tree; 

 young shoots puberulous. Leaves petioled, of very unequal size, 2-3- 

 foliolate or often 1-foliolate; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire, 

 cuneate at the base, sessile, lJ-3 in. long, \-\\ in. broad, coriaceous, 

 glabrous, with a distinct midrib and 8-12 pairs of faint secondary nerves ; 

 stipules subulate, J in. long. Male flowers : Calyx-lobes puberulous, 

 triangular, acute. Female flowers : Calyx-lobes puberulous, ovate, 

 shortly acuminate. Fascicles and flowers small. Capsule \ in. long 

 and as much across. Seed J in. long, \ in. wide. 



Kower Oniliea. Angola : Lcmnda, Qossweiler, 457 ! 



14. PAlViEUSA, Welw. ex Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 093. 



Flowei-H dicBcious. Petals absent. Male flowers : Calyx unequally 

 6-.8-lobed ; lobes imbricate. Stamens 0-8, inserted around a thick 

 fleshy disk ; filaments glabrous, free ; anther-cells distinct, minutely 

 papillose, dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary absent or very 

 small. Female flowers : Calyx as in the male. Disk annular, short, 

 pubescent. Ovary ovoid or obovoid, 2-celled ; stigmas 2, reniform ; 

 ovulas 2 in each cell, attached near the apex of the cells, pendulous. 

 Fruit obovoid, shortly stipitate, terminated by the persistent stigmas, 

 more or less imperfectly 2-celled ; cells 1-2-seeded. — A small tree with 

 tubercled branches. Leaves alternate, petiolate, digitately 5-7-foliolate ; 

 leaflets sessile, entire. Male flowers in dense axillary pedunculate 

 clusters ; females solitary or subfasciculate at the ends of the branches. 



Monotvpic, endemic. 



1. P. dactylophylla, Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 328. A 

 resinous tree, 8-30 ft. high ; trunk erect, straight, 2-6 in. in diam. at 

 the base {Welwitsch) \ branches and branchlets somewhat tortuous, 

 very rigid, patent, tubercled and rough with the scars of fallen leaves, 

 rufous-tomentose when young. Leaves alternate, often fasciculate at 

 the ends of the branches ; leaflets usually 5, rarely more, subsessile, 

 oblanceolate or obovate-oblong, obtuse and often emarginate, acute at 

 the base, up to 6 in. long and 2J in. broad, thinly coriaceous, covered 

 with crisp short pubescence, at length glabrous and shining, tomentose 

 below; lateral nerves 9-13 on each side, somewhat inconspicuous; 

 petiole 2-4 in. long, shortly tomentose, or at length glabrescent. Male 

 flowers in dense axillary pedunculate clusters; bracts oblong, obtuse, 

 tomentose : Calyx-lobes 6-8, often unequal, oblong, obtu.se, rusty- 

 tomentose on the outside. Stamens 0-8 ; filaments free, alternate 



