650 cxxii. EUPuoRBiACE^ (hqtchinson). [ffi/meuocardia. 



Upper Guinea. Togo: Afein, Kerstin^, A. 515! Bagu, Kersiinj, 301 1 

 Njaraassila, Kemiing, 157 ! 



Soutli Central. Belgian Congo : Fort Beni, Mildbraed, 2421 ! 



3. H. Heudelotii, Miill Arg. in Flm-a, 1864, 518. A shrub or 

 small tree ; branchlets whitish-pubescent, at length glabrous. Smaller 



eaves elliptic, 1^-2J in. long, |-1 J in. broad, older leaves broadly ovate 

 or rotundate-ovate, obtuse, cordate at the base, 2-oJ in. long, 1 J-3 in. 

 broad, firmly membranous or papery, midrib and lateral nerves pubescent 

 beneath, blade otherwise glabrous and beset with golden-coloured glands 

 on the lower surface ; lateral nerves 5-6 on each side, distinct on both 

 surfaces and slightly prominent on the lower; petiole ^-f in. long, 

 densely pubescent ; stipules lanceolate, soon falling, about 'l\ lin, long. 

 Male spikes 1-2 in. long ; axis minutely puberulous ; bracts broadly 

 ovate, coriaceous, ahnost glabrous. Calyx 5-lobed to about the middle, 

 glandular and pubescent ; lobes ovate, obtuse, ciliolate. Stamens o, 

 joined at the base of the rudimentary ovary ; anthers and rudimentary 

 ovary as in H. acida. Young female flowers not seen. Fruits depress*, d- 

 cordate, with the axis slightly projecting at the apex from the centre of 

 the obscure sinus, J-J in. long, 1-lJ in. broad, very flat, distinctly 

 reticulate, glabrous. — Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 477 ; Pax in De 

 Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 2G9. H. gulneensis, Beille 

 in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Iv. Mem. viii. 63. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia : Heudelot, 8381 French Guinea: Fouta 

 Jallon, between tlie Konkouri River Hnd Tiinbo, Chevalier, 12458 1 between 

 Ditinn and Tiinbo, Chevalier, 12636! Sierra Leone: near Mofari, Scott-Elliot, 

 4431! near Musuia, Scott-Elliot, 5104! near rivers, Erimakunn, Scott-Elliot, 

 5257! Madina, Limba, Scott-Elliot, 5899! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 

 1150! at tl)e confluence of the Niger and the Benue, Barter, 3S3 ! Southern 

 Nigeria : Idda, Barter, 327 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo: Ubangi ; Modgaka, Thollon, 43! Eala, 

 Laurent, 1972; Fynaert, 344; near Yumbi, Laurent, 427. 



4. H. Chevalieri, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Iv. Mem. viii. 61. 

 A shrub or small tree 10-lG ft. high; branches and young branchlets 

 densely and shortly pubescent, the former at length glabrous or nearly 

 so. Mature leaves broadly ovate, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, 

 rounded or cordate at the base, 1 J-4J in. long, 1~3 in. broad, thinly char- 

 taceous, midrib pubescent on both surfaces, with i ather dense tufts of 

 hairs in the axils of the lateral nerves on the lower side, otherwise 

 glabrous, beset with numerous gold-coloured glands on the lower sur- 

 face ; lateral nerves 5-8 on each side, spreading, faintly looped near 

 the margin, distinct on both surfaces, prominent below ; veins very 

 blender and rather close ; petiole J- J in. long, terete, pubescent ; stipules 

 linear, 2-3 lin. long, pubescent. Male spikes solitary, about IJ in. 

 long, borne on the two-year-old wood ; axis pubescent ; bracts ovate, 

 lanceolate, rather densely pubescent outside. Calyx 5-lobed ; lobes 

 ovate-triangular, pubescent. Stamens 5 ; filaments short ; anthers 

 with a golden -coloured gland on the back. Rudimentary ovary sub- 



