734 cxxii. EUPHOHBiACE^: (HUTCHINSON). \th}jllanthu8. 



filiform from a broader auriculate base, about IJ lin. long, subentire, 

 Male flowers not known. Female flowers solitary or subsolitary : pedicel 

 (supporting the fruit) 2 lin. long, thickened towards the apex, glabrous. 

 Sepals 6, obovate, distinctly narrowed to the base, about 1 lin. long, 

 prominently striate inside, glabrous. Disk saucer-shaped, margin undu- 

 late, glabrous. Complete capsule not seen ; exocarp thin, conspicuously 

 reticulate on the inside ; endocarp thicker, bony. Seeds 3-sided, convex 

 on the back, 1 J lin. long and broad, covered with numerous longitudinal 

 rows of very small closely arranged wart-like protuberances. — P. petrtt^nSy. 

 Chevalier ex Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Iv. Mem. viii. 58, partly. 



T7pper Guinea. Togo, Kerstiug, 44 ! 



North Central. Eastern Slmii region : Dar IJanda ; between the Knga Dje 

 and tlje Lower IJamiiigui, near the water. Chevalier, 6612 ! source of the Ndelli 

 Itiver, Chevalier, 6846 ! 



A specimen collected l»y Scott-Elliot (3961) on tlie upper part of Sugarloaf 

 Mountain, Sierra Leone, is very probably this species, hut as the material is rather 

 incomplete I cannot he cpnte ceitnin. 



Imjierfeitbj knotni sjfecies. 



C7. P. Gilletii, J)e Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 

 1^06. A small shrub; branches woody, longitudinally striate, glabrous, 

 more or less angular when young ; branchlets furnished at the base with 

 numerous more or less scarious bracts, solitary or in fascicles, flexuous, 

 usually not again branched, more or less villous, striate, polygonal, 

 J-:^J in. long, the flowering ones shorter than those bearing only leaves. 

 Leaves very shortly petioiate, obovate, elliptic or nearly suborbicular, 

 I— 1 lin. long, J-3J lin. broad, glabrous on both surfaces except for a few 

 hairs on the lateral nerves on the lower side ; lateral nerves few and 

 inconspicuous ; stipules linear-lanceolate, 1 lin. long. Flowers monoi- 

 cious, solitary, males towards the base of the branchlets : pedicel slen- 

 der, i-f lin. long. Sepals G, white when dry, Ij lin. long. Stamens 

 3 ; filaments connate. Female pedicel '1 lin. long, angular when dry. 

 Sepals 6, I'-seriate, 3 inner smaller than the outer, up to '1 lin. long. 

 Ovary ijlabrous ; styles free, with enlarged stigmas. Capsule about 

 H lin. liigh. Seeds strongly striate, | lin. long. 



Xiower Guinea. Lower Congo: lianana district; Moanda, Gillet, 3208> 

 4034. 



&><. P. moeroensiSy De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 

 278, t. 64. Stems from a rhizome, glabrous. Leaves sessile or sub- 

 sessile, oblong-lanceolate, sharply mucronate, narrowed to the base, 5-12 

 lin. long, 1-2J Un. broad, greyish on both surfaces when dry ; stipules 

 ovate-lanceolate, more or less cordate at the base, acute, J-lJ lin. long. 

 Male flowers not seen. Female flowers solitary : pedicel glabrous, 

 about 2 J lin. long. Sepals 5, ovate, obtuse, 1^ lin. long, glabrous. Ovary 

 glabrous, supported on a small disk ; styles 3, divergent, shortly 2-lobed. 

 Capsule subglobose, about 2 J lin. in diam. Seeds glabrous, brown, striate 

 on the back. 



