€60 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE.t: (HUTCHINSON). [Tkecocoris. 



8. T. lucida, Hutchinson. Branchlets pubescent, at length glabrous. 

 Leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, acuminate, conspicuously mucronate, 

 cuneate at the base, "2^-5 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, papery, margin slightly 

 recurved, midrib very sparingly pubescent towards the base on the lower 

 side, otherwise glabrous and slightly shining on both surfaces; lateral 

 nerves 0-11 on each side, very fine, much branched towards the margin, 

 slightly raised on the lower surface ; tertiary nerves and veins laxly 

 reticulate; petiole IJ lin. long, sparingly hispid; stipules subulate- 

 lanceolate, acute, 3 lin. long, strigillose. Male racemes 1-5 in each leaf- 

 axil, about 1^ in. long; axis rather densely puberulous ; pedicels short ; 

 bracts triangular, J lin. broad, hispidulous on the outside, glabrous 

 within, margin ciliate. Sepals 5, obliquely elliptic, acute at both ends, 

 ciliate and pubescent. Petals small, oblong, ciliate in the upper part. 

 Stamens 5 ; anther-cells parallel when young, at length turning upwards 

 and becoming erect ; filaments glabrous. Rudimentary ovary obconic, 

 sparingly pilose. Female racemes axillary, solitary or geminate, about 

 I in. long when in flower, about 2 in. long when in fruit. Bracts and 

 sepals as in the male. Petals absent. Disk annular, glabrous. Ovary 

 depressed-globose, sparingly f.etulose in the upper part ; styles 3, bifid, 

 glabrous, erect and slightly incurved when young. Fruit trilobed, 4 lin. 

 in diam., almost glabrous; lobes rounded; pedicels in fruit reflexed, 

 3 lin. long, slightly pubescent ; bracts very small. — Baccaiti-eopsis lucida, 

 Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 319. 



Soutb Central. IJelgian Congo : Myaiibu, between Fort Boni and Iruniu, 

 Mildiraed, 2855 ! 2856 ! 



4. T. trichogyne, Midi. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 32!=^. A small 

 sparingly and patently branched tree 10-1 5 ft. high ; head lax ; branches 

 slender, .somewhat flexuous, rusty-pubescent. Leaves oblong or oblan- 

 ceolate, shortly acuminate, conspicuously mucronate, subcuneate at the 

 base, 2^6i in. long, 1-2 in. broad, papery, distinctly reticulate on both 

 surfaces ; lateral nerves 8-9 on each side, looped, conspicuous on both 

 sides ; veins prominent below, somewhat close ; petiole stout, about 

 3 lin. long, clothed with a few long brown hairs; stipules lanceolate, 

 acute, 3-4 lin. long, densely pubescent. Male infloresence about 1 in. 

 long, rather dense-flowered. Flowers sessile. Sepals ovate, subacute, 

 \ lin. lon<x and broad, setulose- pubescent in the upper half outside. 

 Petals absent. Stamens 5 ; filaments | lin. long, glabrous. Disk- 

 glands large, setose, fleshy. Rudimentar}" ovary obconic, fleshy, sub- 

 entire, nearly glabrous. Female racemes elongated, lax-flowered. 

 Ovary pubescent ; styles bipartite, recurved. Capsule adpressed- 

 pubescent.— Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 967. 



Xtower Guinea. Angola : Piingo Andongo ; in woods, Welwitsch, 415 ! 

 between liucttii Station and Monte Hello, Gossiceiler, 4-369 ! 4370 ! 



0. T, Chevalieri, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Ivi. Mem. viii. 11 9. 

 A shrub G-10 ft. high ; bark greyish-brown; young branchlets rather 

 densely rusty-setulose. Leaves obovate, elliptic-obovate or elliptic- 

 oblanceolate, more or less gradually or rarely somewhat abruptly 



