PseucIolachnost7/Us.] cxxii. EUPnoRBiACEiE (hutchinson). g73 



lobes rather thick. Fruit globose, | in. in diam. ; pericarp about J lin. 

 thick, coarsely wrinkled when dry, yellow -drab ; endocarp bony and 

 very hard, yellow, nearly J lin. thick. Seeds ellipsoid, shining, with a 

 yellowish strophiole at the base, longitudinally striate, 8^ lin. long, 

 2 J lin. broad. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa: Salanda, Fischer, 287! Usanibiro, 

 Stuhlmann, 853! Portuguese East Africa: Gazalancl ; Lower Umswirizwi River, 

 Swi/nnerton, 151! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; liiver Sliire, Kirk! 

 Mungazi, Kirk! Msolo, Buchanan, 269! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 

 227 ! 409 ! Tanganyika, Scott-EIHot, 8716 ! Rhodesia : Matoj^po Hills, Qibhs, 276 ! 

 Rogers, bZZ^\ Victoria, Jlfo?2ro, 724 ! Bechuanalaud: Ralapye, i^a^A-a/v/g, 901 



4. P. Dekindtii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 20. A shrub or 

 small tree W-M) ft. high ; young branchlets densely brown-pubescent or 

 tomentose. Leaves lanceolate or oblong, slightly narrowed to an obtuse 

 apex, rounded and slightly unequal at the base, 1 j-2J in. long, J-l-J in. 

 broad, thinly coriaceous, pilose with rather long scattered hairs on 

 both surfaces, yellowish-green above when dry, rather browner below ; 

 lateral nerves 6-8 on each side, very faint on both surfaces ; petiole 

 1-2 lin. long, tomentose; stipules somewhat oblanceolate or lanceolate, 

 membranous, pubescent, deciduous, 2 lin. long. Male flowers in 

 axillary pedunculate few -flowered clusters ; peduncle 4-5 lin. long, 

 tomentose ; flowers subsessile in each cluster ; bracts varying from 

 ovate-lanceolate to subulate, nearly 1-| lin. long, with a pubescent mid- 

 rib on the back, membranous towards the margin. Sepals 5, ovate, 

 obtuse, entire, 2 J lin. long, 1 J lin. broad, slightly coriaceous, glabrous 

 inside, pubescent outside. Disk annular, fleshy, glabrous. Staminal 

 column 1 lin. long, glabrous ; filaments free for half their length ; 

 anthers 1 lin. long, glabrous, lludimentary ovary tri})artite ; segments 

 erect, slender, glabrous. Female flowers axillary, solitary, pedunculate, 

 bibracteate at the base ; peduncle about 2 lin. long, densely pubescent 

 or tomentose ; bracts resembling the stipules. Sepals as in the male. 

 Disk annular, closely clasping the base of the ovary, fleshy, lather 

 irregularly toothed, glabrous. Ovary depressed -globose, densely villous, 

 1 lin. in diam. ; styles 3, slightly connate at the base, glabrous, 

 bilobed, lobes diverging. Unripe fruits subglobose, with a few long 

 scattered hairs, shining, pale yellow. — Cleistanthus sp. nov. 1 Hiern 

 in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 950. Pseicdolachnostylis viaproiuiecefolia, 

 Pax iVi Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 285, not of Pax in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxviii. 20. 



Ziower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; forests of Morro de l.opollo, 5500 ft. 

 Welwitsch, 1252! Eenguella, Dekindt, 849! Gossweiler, 2014! at the Chitanda 

 River, below Goudkopje, Baum, 154 I 



Mozamb. Blstr. Rhodesia: Victoria Falls, Allen, 1641 166! Rogers, 

 5304! 15 miles north of Victoria Falls, Seiner, 113! Pemba, between Broken Hill 

 and Livingstone, Rogers, 8563 ! Livingstone, Rogers, 7220 I 7240 I 



