ffymenocardia,] cxxii. euphorbiace^ (hutchinson). 651 



cylindric, pilose towards the apex. Female flowers not seen. Fruits 

 like those of B^. Ueudelotii, but rather densely pubescent. 



Vpper Guinea. French Guinea : Fouta Jnllon ; Kollangui, Chevalier, 

 12205! 122061 13504! plateaux of Labe, Chevalier, 12380! Sierra Leone: 

 between Berria and Falaba, Scott-Elliot, 4976 ! Gold Coast : Easmon ! Ivory 

 Coast: banks of the River Comoe, Chevalier, 17571 ! 



5. H. lyrata, Tul. in Ann. Sci. Nat. ?>me ser. xv. 258. Branchlets 

 sparingly pubescent when young, soon becoming glabrous. Leaves 

 ovate-elliptic, obtusely acuminate, rounded and usually unequal at the 

 base, 1-2 J^ in. long, J-lJ in. broad, papery or firmly membranous, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, with reddish glands below ; lateral nerves 4-H 

 on each side, looped some distance from the margin, very slightly raised 

 on the lower surface; veins scarcely visible; petiole 3-4 lin. lon^, 

 slender, often slightly wrinkled and pubescent ; stipules soon falling off. 

 Male and young female flowers not known. Fruits compressed, oblong 

 or obovate, deeply emarginate, subcordate at the base, wings forming a 

 very narrow sinus and almost touching each other; fruit-body reticu- 

 late, glabrous; wings membranous, obscurely and longitudinally striate. 

 — Baill. Etude Gen. Euph. t. 27, fig. 24 ; Mull. Arg. in DO. Prodr. xv. 

 ii. 477. 



Vpper Guinea. Senecambia : Heudelot, 581 ! Perrottet, 359. Sierra 

 Leone: Unwin Sf Smytfie, 1\}\ Ivory Coast: valley of the Cavally, Mount Nienskue, 

 Chevalier, 19454 ! 



6. H. mollis. Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xv. 52vS, excl. var. A tree or 

 shrub ; branchlets pubescent. Leaves elliptic or slightly oblanceolate- 

 oUiptic, obtuse, very slightly rounded at the base, 1| in. long, |-1 in. 

 broad, sparingly pilose and somewhat bullate on the upper surface, 

 densely pilose below and with gold-coloured glands scattered amongst 

 the hairs ; lateral nerves about G on each side, pubescent on the upper 

 surface, almost hidden by the hairs below. Fruits cordate at the base ; 

 fruit-body broadly ovate in outline, reticulate and densely pubescent ; 

 wings longitudinally striate, about J in. long and 8 lin. broad. — Pax in 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 237 ; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, 

 i. 275. H. lasiophylla, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 79. 



IMCozamba Distr. German East Africa: Kao:ehi, on Luke Victoria, J'wcAer, 

 5331 Fori, on the Ugalla River, JBo/tm, 117a ! North-west Rhodesia; Makoti, 

 Rogers, 8289 1 



7. H. acida, Tul. in Ann, Sci. Nat. 3me ser. xv. 256. A small tree 

 about 20 ft. high, or a shrub ; branchlets rusty-puberulous. Leaves 

 oblong, elliptic -oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse and often rounded, 

 rarely emarginate; somewhat rounded and slightly unequal or narrowed 

 at the base, up to 3J in. long and IJ in. broad; young leaves usually 

 pubescent and membranous, densely beset with gold-coloured glands 

 beneath ; older leaves coriaceous, usually becoming glabrous or aluK^st 

 so ; lateral nerves 7-9 on each side, distinct on both surfaces ; petiole 

 slender, up to J in. long, in the young state pubescent, at length glab- 

 rous ; stipules subulate or filiform, pubescent, about half the length of 



