Megaharia.] cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiB (iiutchinson). G29 



glabrous ; stigmas 3, reflexed, entire, sparingly papillose. Fruits ellip- 

 soid, slightly pointed at each end. Seeds ellipsoid, about J in. long, 

 5 lin. broad, red and shining. — llcecacoris I'rillesii, Beille in IJull. Soc. 

 Bot. France, Iv. Mem. viii. 120, not of Pierre. 



STortli Central. Upper Sliari : valley of tlie lioro, Chevalier, 7030 bis ! 



Wile Xiand. Uganda: in tlie Luanhubya Forest, Dawe, 760! Entebbe, Ba^- 

 rhatve, 723 ! 



Dr. Baj^shawe states tliat the leaves of tliis species are copper-colonrcd and snid to 

 be poisonous. 



16. CENTROPLACUS, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. n.s. i. 114. 



Flowers dioecious. Petals present in the male flowers, absent from 

 the female, Male flowers : Sepals r>, imbricate. Petals 5, imbricate, 

 larger than the sepals. Stamens 5, opposite the sepals, inserted on a 

 fleshy cupular disk ; tilaments very short ; anthers introrse, cells dis- 

 tinct, ellipsoid, dehiscing longitudinally. Disk cupular, fleshy. Rudi- 

 mentary ovary columnar, entire or at length tritid, densely villous. 

 Female flowers: Sepals as in the male. Disk saucer-shaped, 5 lobed, 

 lol)es alternate with the sepals. Staminodes small, opposite the sepals. 

 Ovary 8-celled ; styles 8, subulate, bhort, entire, slightly recurved ; 

 ovules two in each cell. Capsule oblong-ellipsoid, apparently loculicidal ; 

 exocarp slightly bony ; endocarp thin. Seeds ellipsoid ; testa black and 

 shining. — A tree. Leaves alternate, petiolate, penninerved, obscurely 

 serrate ; stipules small. Flowers m axillary panicles on the young 

 shoots ; pedicels short. 



One endemic species. 



This genus has been referred to Flacourtiace<x, but there seems little doubt as to 

 its being Eupborbiaceous. 



1. C. glaucinus, Pierre in BuU. Soc. Linn. Par. n.s. i. 115. A 

 tree, 35-50 ft. high ; branchlets slender, terete, glabrous. Leaves 

 oblong or oblong-elliptic, gradually or subcaudate-acuminate to an acute 

 apex, obtuse at the base, o-7 in. long, l-'2h in. broad, rather distantly 

 and somewhat obscurely serrate, thinly coriaceous, glabrous on both 

 surfaces, dull below, slightly shining above; lateral nerves 5-7 on each 

 side, faintly looped well within the margin, prominent below, a little 

 raised above; tertiary nerves rather faint, close, spreading at riglit 

 angles to the midrib ; petiole 2-3 lin. long, blackish and slightly wrinkled 

 when dry, glabrous; stipules small, triangular-subulate, scarcely J lin. 

 long. Male panicles l|-3 in. long; axis and branches })uberulous ; 

 bracts subulate, obtuse, about ^ lin. long, puberulous; pedicels ^ lin. 

 long, puberulous. Sepals 5, slightly unequal, ovate, obtuse or rounded 

 at the apex, about ^ lin. long, coriaceous, ciliate, glabrous within, 

 yellow-puberulous on the outside. Petals 5, broadly obovate or obovate- 

 elliptic, rounded at both ends, about 1 lin. long and broad, slightly 

 coriaceous, puberulous on both sides. Stamens 5 ; filaments short ; 

 anthers ^ lin. long. Disk fleshy, slightly lobed between the filaments, 

 glabrous, lludimentary ovary columnar, | lin. long, entire or at length 



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