738 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE^: (uutchinson). [Iluyyea. 



Leaves elliptic, acute or subacute at both ends, 1 J-3J in. long, 1-2 in. 

 broad, membranous, glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 10-12 on 

 each side, spreading, branched and becoming fainter towards the margin^ 

 distinct on both surfaces, more prominent on the lower ; tertiary nerves 

 subparallel, very few; veins close, scarcely raised; petiole 2J-3-| lin» 

 long, glabrous ; stipules deciduous. Male and female flowers not 

 known. Capsule slightly trilobed, depressed, J in. in diam., lobes 

 rounded, reticulate, glabrous. Seeds with the two sides flattened^ 

 concave and wrinkled or reticulate on the back, about 2 lin. long. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; Himo Kiver, at 3300 ft., 

 Volkens ; Aniani, ^Varneclie,^o2\ and witliout i)iecise locality, A>r5^/»^, 98 ! 1737 1 



Only fruiting specimens of F.fagifolia are known, and I aui very doubtful if it 

 is a true Fluggea. It seems closely allied to Phyllanthxts discoideus, Miill. Aig., 

 with which it is probably congeneric. 



33. CLUYTIANDRA, Miill. Arg. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. iii. 272. 



Flowers moncecious. Petals absent. Male flowers : Sepals 5, imbri- 

 cate. Disk saucer-shaped, undulately lobed, lobes opposite the sepals. 

 Stamens 5 ; filaments connate in their lower half, free above ; anther- 

 cells parallel, dehis-cing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary at the 

 apex of the staminal column, tripartite or subentire. Female flowers : 

 Calyx and disc as in the male. Ovary 3-celled ; styles short, spreading 

 or suberect, bifid or bipartite ; ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule dehiscing 

 into 2-valved cocci. Seeds with fleshy albumen, without a strophiole ; 

 cotyledons flat and broad. — Shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, 

 thin, entire, penninerved. Flowers in axillary fascicles, males small, 

 shortly pedicellate, females often solitary: pedicel elongating in fruit. 

 Species 3, confined tu Troiiical Africa and South-east Arabia. 

 Stems arising from a many-hoailcd rhi/.ome ; rudimentary 



ovary tripartite . . . . . . . \. C. frichopod'i. 



Shrubs ; rudimentary ovary subentire. 



Flowering branchlets more or less sharply angular or 



asperulate . . . . . . . . 2. ('. somalen.si};. 



Flowering branchlets terete, glabious or minutely 



puberulous ........ 3. C.fruticans. 



1. C. trichopoda, Mall. Arg. in Journ. hot. 18G4, 328. Stems 

 numerous, up to 15 in. high, arising from a many-headed rhizome 

 {}yelvnt&ck\ glabrous. Leaves ovate or rounded-ovate, subacute or 

 slightly mucronate, rounded at the base, \-\\ in. long, \-\ in. broad, 

 membranous, glabrous and somewhat glaucous on both surfaces ; lateral 

 nerves 4-5 on each side, fairly distinct; petiole IJ lin. long, slender, 

 glabrous ; stipules small, ovate-triangular, slightly toothed, membranous. 

 Male flowers : pedicel short, slender. Sepals ovate-orbicular, mem- 

 branous, glabrous. Disk membranous. Female flowers : Sepals and 

 disk as in the male. Ovary glabrous ; styles suberect ; stigmas globose. 

 Capsule depres-sed-globose. Seeds coarsely wrinkled ; fruiting pedicel 



