Manniophi/ton.] cxxu. euphorbiace^ (hutchinson). 819 



branched than those of the male. Calyx as in the male. Petals tomen- 

 tellous on the outside, glabrous within. Disk absent. Ovary subglobose, 

 densely and rigidly setose ; styles erect, bifid, at length spreading and 

 bipartite, glabrous. Capsule deeply trilobed, about 1 in. long, rusty- 

 tomentose. — MUll. Argr. in DC. Pro<ir. xv. ii. 720 ; Benth. in Hook. Ic. 

 PI. tt. 1267, 1268 ; Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 649 ; De Wild. Fl. 

 Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 279. M. Chevalieri, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 France, 1908, Mem. viii. 74. M. Wildemanii, Beille, I.e. 124. 



Upper Ouinea. Sierra Leone, Scott-Elliot, 5925 ! Smythe, 204 ! Liberia : 

 Gi-and Bassa, Dinklage, 1758 ! near Monrovia, Whyte ! and without precise 

 locality, Bunting, 12 ! Gold Coast : Akwapim Hills, Johnson, 795 ! and without 

 precise locality. Farmer, 4Q4l\ Ivory Coast: Bouroukrou, Chevalier, 16691! 

 16879! Grabo Villiage, CAet'aZter, 19631! Southern Nigeria : Old Calabar River 

 Mann, 2308 ! Oban, Talbot, 180 (Herb. Brit. Mus.) ! 614! Cameroons: Yaunde' 

 Zenker, 1404 ! Bipinde, Zenker, 3628 ! 



Xkower Guinea. Princes Island, Mann, 1138 ! Island of St. Thomas, 

 WeliHtsch,^Q^\ Spanish Guinea: Nkotentangan, jTe^^waww, 323 ! Gaboon: near- 

 Libreville, Klaine, 625 ! 626 ! 3170 ! Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 234 ! French 

 Congo: Brazzaville, Chevalier, 11072! Nounzi, Lecomte, 45! and without precise 

 locality, Thollon ! 



Soutb Central. Belgian Congo: Monbutta; Bougwa, Schweinfurth, 3191, 

 3581 ! Niaraniam ; Yuru River, Schweinfiirth, 3267 ! various localities, Sapin, 

 Gentil, Pynaert, 223, Schlechter, Laurent, Hens, C, 115 ! Lescrauwaet, Flamigni. 



Var. fulvum, Hutchinson. Young shoots densely clothed with long slicjhtly 

 reflexed fulvous setose hairs. — M. fulvum, MUll. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 332 

 and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 720; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 972; De Wild. Miss! 

 fi. Laurent, i. 129, and Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 276; Pax in De Wild. 

 & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 50; De Wild. & Durand, I.e. ii. 56. Aniso- 

 chlamys polymorpha, Welwitsch ex Miill. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 332. 



Iiower Guinea. Lower Congo : Mayombe, Laurent ; Sonagongo, Luja ; 

 Kisantu, Gillet ; near Sanda, Oddon. Angola: Golungo Alto; various localities, 

 Welwitsch, 349 ! 350 ! 



46. CROTONOG-YNE, Mull. A.rg. ; Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. PL iii. 305. 



Flowers dioecious, rarely casually monoecious, dichlamydeous. Male : 

 Calyx usually lepidote, globose, slightly apiculate and closed in bud, 

 splitting into 2-3 valvate lobes. Petals connate in a 4-6- (usually 

 5-) lobed corolla, rarely free, shorter than the calyx. Stamens 8-15, 

 1-2-seriate with often 2-5 central, on an elevated cylindric-conical 

 glabrous receptacle surrounded at the base by a ring of free or connate 

 extra-staminal glands alternating with stamens of the outer series ; fila- 

 ments short, free ; anthers 2-celled, cells parallel, adnate throughout to 

 a rather broad somewhat produced often slightly emarginate connective, 

 dehiscence longitudinal, subintrorse. Rudimentary ovary 0. Female : 

 Calyx usually 5-lobed, less often 4-lobed ; lobes glandular or not on the 

 margin or at the base. Petals 5 or 4, free, white, imbricate, as long as 

 or exceeding the calyx. Disk shallow urceolate, entire or lobed. 

 Ovary usually lepidote with flattened pectinate scales which are some- 



