ffasskarlia.] cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiG (prain5. 847 



Welw. i. 974 ; De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me ser. i. 47 ; 

 Pax in De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 51 ; De Wild. Miss. 

 E. Laurent, i. 131, and Etudes FI. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 284; Stapf 

 in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 649 ; Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 

 212; Th. & Hel. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 491. Gdonium angolense, 

 Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 233. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia : Fouta Jiillon ; Heudelot, 835 ! Sierra Leone : 

 Falaba ; near Berria, Scoti-Elliot, 5232 ! 5430 ! Scarcies River, Scott-Elliot, 4725 ! 

 6412 ! near Kukuna, Scott-Elliot, 2425 ! Samu ; mar N'tunga, Seott-EUiot, 4332 » 

 Limba; near Bafodeya, Scott-Elliot, 6557! Liberia; Grand Bnssd ; Fishtown, 

 I>inJclage,\l\{}\ Monrovia, Whyte ! Since Biisin, Whyte ! Ivory Coast; Bingerville, 

 Abidgenn and Dabou, Chevalier, 15321 ! 16209 ! 16219 ! 17214 ! Brumoukrou, 

 Chevalier, 16862 ! Zaranou, Chevalier, 16268 ! 17651 ! between Guidako and the 

 Zozro, Chevalier, 19054 ! Togo : M^sabobe, Baumann, 509 ! Southern Nigeiia : 

 Brass River, Barter, 1848 ! Caineroons : Batanga, BinMage, 1259 ! 1268 I 



JTlle Iband. Uganda: Central Prov.; Buvuma Island, in Lake Victoria, 

 Bagshaive, 661 ! 



]bower Guinea. St. Thomas Island : at 2000 ft., Mann, 1058 ! Welwitsch, 

 358 ! Spanish Guinea : Nkolentangan, Tessmann, B 5 ! Gaboon : Cristal 

 Mountains, Trilles, 35! Libreville, Klaine, 2088! Fiench Congo: Muyumba 

 Forests, Thollon, 1259! Oubangi River; Modgnka, Tholl on, 381 Lower Congo: 

 Stanley Pool district, near Leopoldville, Gillet ; Kisantu, Gillet. Angola: Golnngo 

 Alto, Welwitsch, 359 ! Cazengo, Oossweiler ! 



Soutb Central. Belgian Congo : Lake Leopold II, district ; YhaW, Laurent j 

 Mfini, Laurent. Equiitorial Province: Eala, Pynacr^, 811, 1786. Bangala district: 

 New Antwerp, Pyruiert, 10! Eastern Province; Mawambi, Kasanga, Mildbraed, 

 3105! 3115! Irurau, Songola, JfiWiraec?, 2996 ! Poiithierville, Dewhvre, 1132. 

 Kasai district ; Kondue, Laurent ; If uta, Laurent. 



Mozamb. Blstr. German East Afi*ica : Bukoba, Stuhlmann^ 972 ! 

 Mildbraed, 44 ! 



2. H. oppositifolia. Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xliii. 81. Small tree; 

 twigs glabrous ; bark greyish-green. Leaves opposite, distichous, short- 

 petioled, firmly membranous, oblong, caudate-acuminate, base cuneate, 

 narrowing to the petiole, margin shortly and distantly toothed, 7 in. 

 long, 2-2\ in. wide, bright green, somewhat polished and glabrous on 

 both surfaces; petiole 5 lin. long. Male: Calyx globose in bud, yel- 

 lowish, under 1 lin. wide ; flowers clustered in dense cylindric pendulous 

 spikes 2J-2J in. long. Female flower and fruit not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Liberia : Monrovia, Dinklage, 2213 ! Sinoe Basin, Whyte ! 

 Southern Nigeria : Oban, Talbot, 640 ! 



ILower Guinea. French Congo: N'Djole, Ogowe, Thollon, 714! 



Perhaps only a variety of H. didymostemon. 



4. ERYTHROCOCCA, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl.iii. 308. 



Flowers dioecious, apetalous. Male : Calyx globose, often apiculate, 

 rarely conical, closed in bud, splitting into 3-4 valvate lobes. Stamens 

 2-60, usually intermixed with small generally hirsute glands and some- 

 times surrounded by a ring of similar rather larger free or connate 

 glands ; filaments free, longer or shorter than the anthers ; anther» 



