ggg cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (prain). [Erythrococca. 



2 -celled ; stigmas connate at the base, ovate-lanceolate, divaricate, 

 smooth. ' Disk urceolate, shallowly widely 2-lobed. Capsule and seeds 

 not seen.—Claoxylon rizmlare, Mull. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 518, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 777. Chloropatane africana, Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 383 ; 

 Perkins and Gilg in Engl. Pflanzenr. Monim. 24, fig. 4, M-R ; C. H. 

 Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 1G9. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Great Batanga, \Z)tw^Za^e, 1057! Yaunde, 

 Zenker, 494, 798 (fide Engler). 



Ziower Guinea. Spanish Guinea : Mount John, Kongui Kiver, Mann, 1785 ! 



A very distinct species. We linve not seen the specimens collected by Zenker at 

 Yaunde which hear tlie numbers quoted by Engler, who, since p. 169 of this volume 

 was printed, has in Herb. Berlin reduced the genus Chloropatane to Claoxylon as 

 understood by M filler. 



31. IS. welwitschiana, Prain in Ann. Bot. xxv. G22. Shrub 

 4-15 ft. hi^^h ; twigs glabrous ; bud-scales persistent. Leaves short- 

 petioled, membranous, narrow-oblong or elliptic, acuminate, base 

 cuneate, margin remotely and shortly denticulate, 4-{; in. long, 2-3 in. 

 wide, dark green, paler beneath, glabrous above, beneath sparingly 

 ndpressed-pubescent on the nerves, soon glabrous, minutely verrucose ; 

 petiole sparingly adpressed-pubescent, J in. long ; stipules unmodified, 

 hyaline-scarious, minute. Flowers small, in peduncled racemes; 

 peduncles slender, sparingly adpressed-pubescent, males | in., females 

 1 J in. long ; pedicels glabrous, males J-f in., females J in. long. Male 

 calyx pale green, glabrous, globose in bud ; lobes 4, thinly membranous. 

 Stamens 30; outer 10, the rest central; filaments much shorter than 

 the anthers ; glands minute, hirsute, rhomboid, all inter-staminal. 

 Female calyx 2-3-lobed. Ovary glabrous, 2- (rarely 3-) celled ; stigmas 

 minute, suborbicular, suberect, smooth, at the apex of a thick columnar 

 obovoid style 3-4 times as long as themselves. Disk shallow-urceolate, 

 with 2 minute lobes. Capsule 2-coccous, didymous, crowned by the 

 columnar style ; cocci J in. across. Seed with a scarlet aril, and slightly 

 foveolate-reticulate testa. — Claoxylon ivehvitschianum, IVliill. Arg. in 

 Journ. Bot. 18(»4, 333, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 770; Hiern in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welw. i. 075. C. africanum, De Wild. Etudes Fi. Bas- et 

 Moyen-Congo, ii. 270, as to Sapin's Sankuru specimens only; Comp. 

 de Kasai, Miss. Scient. 330 ; not of Miill. Arg. Chloropatane Batesii, 

 C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 109, and in Kew Bulletin, 

 1900, 214. Autrandra racemosa, Pierre MSB. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Efulen, Baies, 409 ! Bipindi, 500-600 ft. 

 Ze«/rer, 1908 ! 2049! 2610! 2910! 2925! 3773! 391214195! 4237! 



ZiOwer Guinea. Spanisli Guinea : Bebai, Tessmann, 555 ! Nkolentangan, 

 Tessma)in, 296! Gaboon: near Libreville, ^«/'ra», 6442! Klaine, 605 I 1356! 

 1425! 1521! 1672! 1976! 2976! Angola: Golungo Alto, on the Znenza River, 

 Welivitsck, '^971 Oossiveiler, 4412 \ Serra do Alta Queta, If^elivitsch, S9S \ 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Lualaba-Kasai district ; Sankuru, Sapin ! 



A very distinct species. Tiie leaves are stated by Sapin to be used as a vegetable. 



32. E. columnaris, Prain in Ann. Bot. xxv. 622. Shrub 12-15 ft. 

 high ; twigs adpressed-pubescent ; bud-scales persistent. Leaves short- 



