Erythrococca.] cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (prain). 855 



and distinctly foveolate-reticulate testa. — Piain in Ann, Bot. xxv 

 610. 



Nile ]band< Ugandsi : Kiiihura, on Lake Albert (a stunted form ^Yith small 

 leaves), Scott-Elliot, S033\ Ankole ; marsh to west of Lake Victoria, Scott-Elliot, 

 7449! British East Africa: at Lake Nakuro, 6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6793! 

 Duruma Kiver, Kdssner, 301 ! Nairobi, Linton, 159 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo: northern shoi'e of Lake Albert Edward, 

 Mildbraed, 1935 ! 



XVXozamb. Distr. (ierman East Africa : Bukoba ; Karagwe, 4000-6000 ft., 

 Stuklmann, 1760! Scot t -El Hot, S159 \ Ruanda; Mugarura Island in Lake Kiwa, 

 Mildbraed, 1112! 



Very nearly allied to E. hoyigensis. 



5. E. olacifolia, Frain in Kew Bulletin^ 1911, 89. Shrub; twigs 

 glabrous ; bud-scales persistent. Leaves petioled, membranous, ovate- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, base wide-cuneate, margin crenate, 2J-3 in. long, 

 1-1 J in. wide, dark green, glabrous; petiole sparingly pubescent, 

 J-J in. long ; stipules accrescent, mammillate or spinulose. ^'lowers 

 minute, males in short-peduncled glomerules with pubescent rhachis ; 

 peduncles slender, sparingly pubescent, \ in. long; pedicels glabrous, 

 \ in. long; females in distinctly peduncled glomerules; peduncles 

 nearly glabrous, J in. long; pedicels rather rigid, glabrous, one-fourth 

 the length of the males. Male calyx green, glabrous, globose in bud ; 

 lobes H, thinly membranous. Stamens usually 12; outer 8, the rest 

 central ; filaments longer than the anthers ; glands minute, glabrous, 

 5 ovate, subcompressed, free, in an extra-staminal ring, occasionally 

 one or more absent or replaced by a stamen ; the rest rhomboid, inter- 

 staminal ; filaments of the outer series each with a pair of adnate basal 

 glands. Female calyx smaller than the male ; lobes o, minutely ciliate. 

 Ovary adpressed-strigose, o-celled ; stigmas free, linear, patulous, 

 fimbriate-laciniate throughout. Disk of 3 discrete linear-ovate scales 

 as long as the ovary. Capsule usually by abortion 2-coccous, didymous, 

 or 1-coccous; cocci sparingly setose. \ in. across. Seeds with red aril 

 and minutely foveolate-reticulate testa. — Prain in Ann. Bot. xxv. Cll. 



K-ile Xiand. Uganda: Toro; Bukaruugu, on Lake Kuisamba, 2900 ft., 

 Bagshatve, 1191 ! 



Very nearly allied to E. rigidifolia, but with thinner leaves, their nerves 

 slightly elevated beneath, a more or less complete cxtra-staminal ring of glands, a 

 densely strigose ovary and sparingly setose cajisu'e. 



6. E. Paxii, A'e/i^Z/e inJourn. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 212, t. o. Shrub; 

 twigs glabrous; bud-scales persistent. Leaves short-petioled, mem- 

 branous, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, subacute, base cuneate, margin 

 crenate, 1-2 in. long, \-\ in. wide, pale green, often purplish when 

 young, glabrous; petiole glabrous, J-^ in. long; stipules accrescent, 

 usually umbonate or spinulose. Flowers minute, males in peduncled 

 glomerules with glabrous rhachis; peduncles slender, glabrous, \-\ in. 

 long; pedicels glabrous, jL-J in. long; females fewer, their pedicels 

 rather shorter than in the males. Male calyx pale green, glabrous, 



