Lingelsheimia.] cxxii. euphorbia.ce.=e (nuTcniNSON). 691 



2. L. capillipeSy Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xliii. 318. A large shrnl); 

 young branchlets subterete, glabrous. Leaves oblong-elliptic or elliptic- 

 lanceolate, acutely caudate-acuminate, rounded and one side of the blade 

 produced slightly below the other at the base, 2-5 in. long, 1-:^ J in. l)roa<l, 

 chartaceous, glabrous and somewhat dull on both surfaces, margin 

 minutely and obtusely denticulate ; lateral nerves 5-S on each side, 

 looped and anastomosing well within the margin, prominent below; 

 tertiary nerves close, spreading from the midrib to the lateral nerves, 

 prominent below ; petiole 1-2 lin. long, glabrous ; stipules very small, 

 deciduous. Flowers dioecious, males geminate or solitary in the le.if- 

 axils of the young shoots; pedicel drooping, very slender, 2-3 in. long, 

 glabrous. Sepals 5, suborbicular, 2^ lin. in diam., coriaceous, glalirous 

 on both surfaces, margin shortly ciliolate. Disk fleshy, much lobed over 

 the surface, lobes pubescent and encircling the base of each lilament, 

 simulating a small perianth. Stamens about 25, inserted amongst the 

 lobes of the disk ; filaments glabrous ; anthers oblong, cordate at the 

 base, 1 lin. long. Female flowers not known. 



Soutb Central, lielghui Congo: Kabroadu, iu the iLuri forest west of Lake 

 Albert, Mildbraed, 3036 ! 



3. L. gilgiana, Hutchinson. A shrub ; branchlets slender, slightly 

 sulcate, puberulous, nearly glabrous when older. Leaves ovate-elliptic, 

 caudate-acuminate, acumen about | in. long, rounded and very unequnl 

 at the base, one half of the blade produced about J lin. below the other, 

 2-3 J in. long, 1-1 J in. broad, papery, margin minutely crenulate- 

 denticulate, glabrous and closely reticulate on both surfaces ; midrib 

 prominent on the lower side, glabrous ; lateral nerves 4-5 on each side, 

 distinctly looped some distance from the margin ; veins and veinlets 

 very close; petiole very short, hardly 1 lin. long, rather densely pubes- 

 cent ; stipules small, ovate. Male flowers 3-4 in each leaf-axil ; pedicel 

 2 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 4, suborbicular, 1| lin. in diam,, glabrous 

 outside, margin minutely ciliolate. Stamens about 1 5 ; filaments inserted 

 amongst and between the lobes of the disk. Female flowers solitary 

 or subsolitary in the axils of the leaves of the young branchlets ; pedicel 

 J-J in. long (at least in the young fruit), shortly pubescent. Sepals 4, 

 transversely elliptic or rounded, distinctly striate with about eight 

 veins, leathery, glabrous except at the minutely ciliolate m irgin. Disk 

 annular, entire, nearly flat, thick, glabrous. Ovary depressed-globose, 

 glabrous ; stigmas sessile, reflexed, flattened, bilobed, glabrous. Fruit 

 globose, a little more than J in. in diam., hispid, light-brown, dull when 

 dry; exocarp nearly 1 lin. thick, crustaceous ; endocarp very hard, J lin. 

 thick, yellowish-brown. Seeds flattened on the inner side ; testa brown 

 and reticulate ; cotyledons large, flat, very thin, cordate at the base, 

 palmately veined ; albumen copious, fleshy. — Cyclostemon gilyianus, Pax 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 278. 



Upper Guinea. Lagos : interior, Millson, 139 ! Southern Nigeria : wit liout 

 locality, Foster^ 353! Cameroons : Uipinde, Zenker^ 2349 ! 



