82C cxxii. EUPHOKBiACE^ (prain). [Crotonoyyne. 



15, 5 outer; extra-stamina 1 glands short, wide, obtuse, faintly connate, 

 glabrous. Female : Calyx oblong, closely stellate-pubescent, J in. long ; 

 lobes 6, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, subacute, eglandular or occasionally 

 glandular. Petals not seen. Disk depressed-urceolate. Ovary not 

 seen. Capsule densely stellate-pubescent and sparingly setose, J in. 

 long. Seeds ovoid, ^ in. long, reddish-brown overlaid with white or 

 pale yellow glistening blotches. — (7, Sapini, De Wild. Comp. Kasai, 

 829, C, Thonneri, De Wild. PI. Thonn. Congol. ii. 226, t. 10. 



South Ceatral. Belgian Congo: Equatorial Province; Upper Lopori, ^iWer, 

 8! Bangala; Momhongo, MoDgalu, 1460 ft., Thonner, 171 las ! Eastern Province; 

 n«ar Nyangwe, Detv^vre, 1072 ! Lualaba-Kasai Distr. ; Mukenge, Pcggty 1326 ! 

 Bondo, Sapin, 



13. C. strigosa, Prain in Kew Bulletin^ 1912, 191. Shrub, 

 everywhere more or less strigose with stiffish spreading hairs. Leaves 

 scattered, short- petioled, thin, obovate or oblanceolate-oblong, rather 

 long-acuminate, narrowed from beyond the middle to a narrow rounded 

 or truncate base, margin sparingly strigose, 7-12 in. lon<j, 2J-4 in. 

 wide, dark green, sparingly strigose on the nerves and veins on both 

 surfaces; petiole ?>-o lin. long, densely strigose with spreading hairs; 

 stipules narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 9-10 lin. long, densely strigose 

 externally. Racemes €-10 in, long, simple, densely strigose with 

 spreading hairs ; male flowers in few-flowered glomprules \-\ in. apart ; 

 females few, solitary towards the apex of the racemes ; pedicel densely 

 .strig05.e, in fruit 3-4 lin. long; bracts densely strigose externally. 

 Male : Calyx globose, closely and shortly pubescent externally, 1 lin. 

 wide, 3-lobed. Corolla campanulate, margin entire or slightly undu- 

 late ; tube glabrous within. Stamens about 10,4 outer; extra-staminal 

 glands orbicular, glabrous, contiguous but quite free. Female : Calyx 

 narrow-ovoid, densely strigose externally, J in, long; lobes 5, narrow- 

 lanceolate, acute, eglandular. Petals white, orbicular, imbricate, shorter 

 than the calyx-lobes. Diskshallow-urceolate. . Ovary strigose, • Capsule 

 densely strigose, J in. long. 



lower Guinea. Southern Nigeria : Obau, Talbot, 658 ! 659 ! 



47, TANNODIA, Baill.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 304. 



Flowers dioecious or polyamo-dicecious, dichlamydeous. Male: 

 Calyx ovoid or subglobose, closed in bud, splitting into 2-5 valvate lobes. 

 Petals 4-5, imbricate. Stamens 7-12, 2-seriate ; filaments of the outer 

 series usually shorter than the inner, filaments of the inner series usually 

 slightly connate below ; anthers dorsified or almost basifixed, cells 2, 

 parallel, opening by longitudinal slits, those of the outer series always 

 introrse, of the inner extrorse or lateral. Disk of 4—5 glands alternate 

 with the petals and outer filaments. Rudimentary ovary 0. Female : 

 Calyx 4-5-fid to -sect; lobes unequal, imbricate. Petals 4-4>, imbricate. 

 Disk annular or cup-shaped. Ovary 3-celled, more or less hispid or 

 tomentose; styles 3, slightly united below, at first erect, ultimately 



