658 cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (hutchinson). [Protomegaharia. 



coriaceous, glabrous ; bracteoles connate, boat-shaped, glabrous ; pedicels 

 1 lin. long. Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 1 lin. long, J lin. bi oad, 

 thick and coriaceous, glabrous on both sides. Disk thin and closely 

 ad pressed to the base of the sepals, glabrous. Ovary ovoid, S-acgled, 

 glabrous ; styles short, bilobed, at first erect, at length recurved, glab- 

 rous. Fruits nearly 2 in. long. Seeds ellipsoid, J in. long, shining, 

 with a distinct funicle. — Baccaurea mad'ophylla^ Pax in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxviii. 21, not of Miill. Arg. Megabaria klaineanum, Pierre ex 

 Hutchinson in Hook. Ic. PI. sub t. 2929. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Batauga, moist forest, DjwXrZa^e, 1180 ! 



ZiOwer Guinea. Gnboon : in the neisrlibourhood of Libreville, Klaine, 25 ! 

 (coll. Aug. 1896, not of other dates), 575 ! 2582 ! 2654! 2837 ! 3017 ! 



A specimen collected by Henriques, 8, in the Ishmd of St. Thomas, is possibly 

 this species. The leaves are almost membranous and more attenuated to the base 

 than those of the specimens from the mainland. 



26. THECACORIS, A. Juss. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 286. 



Flowers dioecious. Petals usually present. Male flowers : Sepals 5, 

 imbricate, often ciliate. Petals 5, lanceolate, often ciliate. Disk 

 consisting of 5 free segments, segments opposite the petals, often 

 hairy. Stamens 5, inserted between the disk-segments, opposite the 

 sepals ; filaments free ; anther-cells distinct, subglobose, pendulous 

 from a thick connective or at length erect. Rudimentary ovary thick, 

 fleshy, truncate. Female flowers : Petals smaller than in the male. 

 Disk annular. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; styles 3, distinct 

 or shortly connate at the base, recurved, apex bifid. Capsule trilobed, 

 dehiscing into 2-valved cocci. Seeds (where known) more or less rounde<l ; 

 testa shining. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, stipulate, entire. 

 Flowers small, in axillary many-flowered racemes or spikes ; bractvS 

 usually small. 



Species 9, one from Madagascar, the remainder West African. 

 •Leaves narrowed to the base. 



Bracts of the female inflorescence conspicuous, about 

 2 lin. long in fruit. 

 Male inflorescence and flowers pubescent , . 1. T.stenopetala. 



Male inflorescence and flowers glabrous . . . 2. T. Batesii. 



Bracts of the female inflorescence small and incon- 

 spicuous, ^-^ lin. long in fruit. 

 Ovary pilose or setulose. 



Leaves conspicuously mucronate, under 6 in. long 

 and 2^ in. broad. 

 Ovary sparingly setulose in the upper part only 3. T. lucvhj. 

 Ovary equally setulose or pubescent all over. 

 Leaves about thrice as long as broad, gradu- 

 ally produced to the raucro, unequal-sided 

 at the base . . . . . . 4. 7^. trichogt/ne. 



Leaves about twice as long as broad, abruptly 



mucronate, equal-sided at the base . . b. T. Chevalieri. 



iiCaves inconspicuously mucronate, over 6 in. 



long and 3 in. broad . , • • . Q. T. memhranacea. 



