858 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE^ (pkain). [ErytJirococca. 



connate in a lobed cup ; the rest inter-staminal. Female flower and 

 fruit not seen. — Prain in Ann. Bot. xxv. Glo. 



Mozamb. Distr. Xyasaland: Lower Shire ; Q\\\vo\m), Scott-Elliot, 21^b\ 



A very distinct species, in facies not unlike K.actdeata, but with smaller leaves, 

 vei y (lifForent rcceptacular glands, and more numerous stamens. 



11. E. aculeata, Benth. in Hook. Xiger Fl. 506. Shrub, 3-8 ft. 

 high ; twigs glabrous ; bud-scales deciduous. Leaves short-petioled, 

 membranous, ovate or oblong, acuminate, base cuneate, margin faintly 

 crenate, 1^-2 in. long, J-1 in. wide, medium green, paler beneath, 

 glabrous; petiole glabrous, \-\ in. long; stipules accrescent, very 

 strongly spinescent. Flowers minute, in short-peduncled racemes ; 

 peduncles and rhachis pubescent; pedicels glabrous, males \ in. long, 

 jointed high up ; females shorter, solitary. Male calyx green, glabrous, 

 globose in bud ; lobes 3, rarely 4, rather firm, divided to the middle ; 

 tube campan'ulate. Stamens usually 6, sometimes 7-11 ; outer 5, the 

 rest central ; filaments longer than the anthers; glands relatively large, 

 as long as the stamens, hirsute, all rhomboid ; 5 outer free, in an extra- 

 staminal ring ; the rest inter-staminal. Female ciilyx smaller than the 

 male, usually 3-lobed, sometimes 2-lobed. Ovary strigose, 3-celled, 

 less often 2-celled ; stigmas free, linear, patulous, fimbriate-laciniate 

 throughout. Disk of 3 or 2 short broad discrete scales. Capsule 

 sometimes 3-coccous, less often 2-coccous, didymous, frequently by 

 abortion 1-coccous; cocci sparsely setose, \ in. across. Seed with bril- 

 liant scarlet aril and distinctly foveolate-reticulate testa. — Miill. Arg. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 701 ; Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 87. E. aculeata^ 

 var. acutisslma^ N. E. Br. ex Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 

 114, and in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 649. E. anomala, Prain in Ann. 

 Bot. xxv. 614. Adelia anomala, Juss. ex Poir. Encyc. Suppl. i. 132 ; 

 A. Juss. Euphorb. Gen. Tent. 32. Mercurialis aculeata, Baill. Adan-' 

 sonia, iii. 173. 



Upper Guinea. Sencgambi;! : neighbourlicod of Boijuet, Heudelot, 856! 

 Sierra Leone: without precise locality, Smeathmaii ! jifzelius ! Vogel, 162! 

 Hagru River, Manu, 879' Scarcies ; near AVallia, Scott-Elliot, 4790! Liuiba; 

 jMakt-iide, Scott- El/iof, 5694! Liberia: near ^lonrovia, Whyle ! Ivory Coast: 

 IJouroukrou, Checalier, 16579! Agnichy Valley; Capiekrou, Chevalier, 17103! 

 Sassaiidra ; .Sunbrc, Checalier, 17990! Southern Nigeria: Western Lagos, 

 Howlaml! Ibatlan, Schlechler, 13012! Oloki-meji, Foster, 285! Oban, Talbot! 

 Cameroons: A'ictoria, Winkler, \\6\ Johann-Albrechtshohe, ^7a?^(//, 466 ! 



A very distinct species. The suggested variety acutissima hardly differs 

 from tlie original type. Heudelot notes that this plant is highly reputed as a 

 vermifuge. 



12. E. subspicata, Prain in Kev Bulletin, 11)11, l^'o. Shrub; 

 twigs glabrous ; bud-scales deciduous. I^eaves petioled, membranous, 

 ovate-oblong, acuminate, base lounded or cuneate, sometimes unequal, 

 margin denticulate, teeth often rather large, and sometimes irregularly 

 lobulate, 4-0 in. long, \\-'2\ in. wide, dark green, glabrous; petiole 

 slender, ^-^ in. long, sparsely pubescent ; stipules accrescent, very 



