706 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE^ (hutchinson). [Phyllauthfig. 



bmnchlets often produced in fascicles, short, about 1 in. long, sharply 

 angular, distinctly asperulate, bearing 3-5 pairs of leaves. Leaves 

 broadly elliptic or nearly rounded, slightly mucronate at the apex, 

 2-3i lin. long, 1 J-3 lin. broad, chartaceous, asperulate on both surfaces 

 and on the margins ; lateral nerves about 3 on each side, faint ; petiole 

 very short; stipules lanceolate, acute, J lin. long, somewhat mem- 

 branous. Flowers creamy-white, moncecious, solitary in each leaf-axil, 

 females towards the *nds of the branchlets, males towards the base ; 

 pedicel short. Male flowers: Sej)als 6, linear-oblong, obtuse, Ij lin. 

 long, J lin. broad, 1-nerved, glabrous. Disk-glands 6, rounded, fleshy, 

 smooth. Stamens 3 ; filaments connate to the top into a slender column ; 

 anthers dehiscing longitudinally. Female flowers : Sepals 6, in two 

 distinct series, the outer ovate, If lin. long, 1 lin. broad, the inner 

 oblong and narrower, faintly 1 nerved. Disk large and thick, fleshy, 

 rather coaisely wrinkled, glabrous. Ovary lobed, smooth ; styles erect, 

 thick, connate in the lower lialf; stigmas capitate, globose. Capsule 

 thin. Seeds \^ith about 5 very faint lines on the back. — Pax in Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 23G, and in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 338 ; S. Moore in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xl. 192. 



JsO-wer Guinea. Angola : Ambriz, Monteiro ! 



IWozamb. Dlstr. Gennan Eiist Africa: Ubena ; I.iunpira, Goetze, 796. 

 Portuguese Kiist Africa : Stuhlmann, 850 ! Mbussonil and Cabeceira, Rodriguea 

 de Cavalho ! Maconi Madanda, 200 ft., Johnson, 102! Madanda forests, 

 Swynnerton, 1756 ! 1757 ! 



1 6 . P. Ksessneriy Hutchinson in Kevj Bulletin, 1911,315. A shrub ; 

 branches terete, with a greyish-brown bark ; flowering branchlets fasci- 

 culate or rarely solitary, produced on woody outgrowths from the main 

 branches, very slender, terete, glabrous, bearing about 5 pairs of leaves. 

 Leaves obovate or obovate-elliptic, rounded and sometimes slightly emar- 

 ginate at the apex, subcuneate at the base, 2J-4 lin. long, 1 J-2 J lin. broad, 

 very thinly chartaceous, yellowish-brown on the upper surface when dry, 

 glaucous below, glabrous and conspicuously reticulate on both surfaces; 

 lateral nerves 4-5 on each side, distinct on both surfaces ; petiole \ lin. 

 long, glabrous ; stipules obliquely lanceolate, reddish, about as long as 

 the petiole, margins slightly jagged. Flowers monoecious, one male and 

 two females in each leaf-axil ; pedicel of the male slender, 2-3 lin. long, 

 glabrous, of the female stouter, 1 lin. long. Male flowers : Sepals G, 

 in two distinct series, the outer small, ovate, obtuse, the inner obovate, 

 \ lin. long, J lin. broad, all rather fleshy or coriaceous, 1-nerved and 

 glabrous. Disk-glands 6, slightly stalked, fleshy, rounded, smooth or 

 nearly so. Stamens 3, quite free to the base ; filaments long and slender ; 

 anther-cells diverging, the line of dehiscence continuous through the 

 cells. Female flowers : Sepals 6, in two series, the outer small, the inner 

 broadly ovate, somewhat coriaceous. Disk annular, subentire. Ovary 

 ovoid, slightly lobed, smooth ; styles suberect, free to the base, bilobed, 

 lobes linear and not swollen at the tips. Fruit not seen. 



ITile Kand. British East Africa: Pemba River, Kdssner, 356! 



