g64 cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (prain). [Erj/thrococca. 



hirsute I- in. long ; stipules unmodified, hyaline-scarious, minute. 

 Flowers small, in peduncled racemes ; peduncles slender, glabrous, 

 few-flowered, usually J- J in. (occasionally 1 in.) long ; pedicels 

 glabrous, very short. Male calyx green, glabrous, globose in bud ; 

 lobes 4, membranous. Stamens 24-;30, usually 27 ; outer 10, the rest 

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

 rhomboid or linear, all inter-staminal. Female calyx smaller than the 

 male, deeply 2-3-lobed. Ovary glabrous or with a few special hairs, 

 2- (rarely -)-) celled ; stigmas free, linear, patulous, fimbriate-laciniate 

 throughout. Disk of 2 ovate discrete scales. Capsule 2-coccous, 

 didymous ; cocci J in. across. Seeds with a scarlet aril and faintly 

 foveolate-reticulate testa. — Claoxylonpauciflorum, Miill. Arg. in Journ. 

 Bot. 18G4, ;3oo; DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 778; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 

 i. 975. 



Zaower Guinea. Loango: near Chinchoxo, Soiiaux,2%\ Angola: Loanda; 

 ne.ir Musaque do Sul and above Loanda, Welwiisch, 400 ! near Loanda, Oossweiler, 

 195 ! Musaque, liear the English cemetery, Oossweiler, 1519 ! Malange, Oossweiler, 

 452! 



2:^. E. polyandra, Prain in Ann, Bot. xxv. G18. Shrub, usually 

 5-6 ft, occasionally 15-16 ft. high; twigs glabrous ; bud -scales per- 

 sistent. Leaves short- petioled, membranous, ovate, acute or acuminate, 

 base wide-cuneate or rounded, margin obscurely toothed or subentire, 

 3-5 in. long, \\-^\ in. wide, dark green, or when young dark purple, 

 glabrous; petiole glabrous or with a few hairs, \ in. long; stipules 

 unmodified, hyaline-scarious, minute. Flowers small, in peduncled 

 racemes ; peduncles slender, glabrous, few-flowered, males J to 1 in., 

 females up to 2 in. long ; pedicels glabrous, 1 in. long. Male calyx 

 purplish, glabrous, globose in bud ; lobes ?y, membranous. Stamens 

 10-13 ■ outer 0-1), the rest central ; filaments longer than the anthers; 

 glands minute, glabrous, ovoid, all inter-staminal. Female calyx larger 

 than the male, deeply 2-lobed or casually 3-lobed. Ovary glabrous, 

 2- (rarely 3-) celled ; stigmas on a very short style, ovate-lanceolate, 

 divaricate, margins incised-lobulate throughout. Disk of 2 (rarely 3) 

 wide-ovate discrete scales. Capsules usually 2-coccous, didymous, or by 

 abortion 1-coccous ; cocci \ in. across. Seeds with a red aril and deeply 

 foveolate reticulate testa. — Claor.yloii jjolj/andrum, Pax and K. Hoflm. 

 ill Engl. Jahrb. xlv. 237. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. Genuan East Africa: Usambara; Kwai, Alhers, 36! 

 Amani, Warnecke, 219 ! Kranzlin, 2182 ! 



Most closely allied to E. pnucijlorion, of which it is the eastern representative 

 but with fewer stamens and very different stigmas. 



24. E. membranacea, Prain in Ann. Bot. xxv. 619. Shrub 10 ft. 

 hit'h ; twigs softly hispid with tawny spreading hairs ; bud-scales 

 persistent. Leaves short-petioled, membranous, oblong-lanceolate or 

 oblong, acuminate, base cuneate or less often rounded, margin deeply 

 and irregularly toothed, 2-0 in. long, J-2 in. wide, dark green, softly 

 hispid, especially on the midrib beneath, witli long tawny spreading 



