876 cxxTT. EUPHORBiACE^ (prain). [Claoxijlon, 



set, at length \-\ in. apart : pedicels densely pubescent, males at length 

 \-\ in. long ; females jV? ^^ ^^'"^^ iV ^^- ^^^g- '^^\e calyx whitish- 

 <'reen ; densely pubescent, depressed-globose in bud ; lobes 4, divided 

 nearly to the base. Stamens often 6, occasionally 7-8, outer 4, the 

 rest central ; filaments short, surrounded by a ring of glands connate 

 in a distinct crenulate extra-staminal cup, the margin hirsute with 

 short white hairs. Female calyx green, densely pubescent ; lobes 4, 

 ovate, acute. Ovary densely velvety, 2-celled ; stigmas 2, very slightly 

 united at the base, suborbicular, stellately and plumosely fimbriate. 

 Disk of 2 thick fleshy reniform lobes, organically united around the 

 base of the ovary. Capsule 2-coccous, didymous, J in. across, tawny 

 velvety ; cocci opening loculicidally. Seeds globose, smooth. — Miill. 

 Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 780. C. Fi-eussii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. 

 zxviii. 23. 



Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Oban, Talbot, 1352! Cameroons 

 between Victoria and liimbin, 100 ft., Preuss, 1328 ! Bueu, 3300 ft., Lehmhach, 184 ! 

 Beistel, 459 ! Reder, 362 ! 747 ! Bipindi, Zenker, 1992 ! 2790 ! 3632 ! 4095 ! 

 near Mokundange, Winkler, 1117 ! Bare, 4900 ft., Ledermann, 1450 ! Fernando 

 Po : Mann, 186 ! 



South Central. Belgian Conpo : Eastern Province, between Beni and I rumu, 

 at Kaponso-Pryo, 3300-3700 tt., Mildbraed, 2807 ! 2819 ! at Bulika, between 

 Mawanibi and Awakubi, Mildbraed, 3205! 



M'u MICROCOCCA, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 

 PL iii. 809. 



Hewers monoecious or dioecious, apetalous. Male : Calyx globose, 

 minutely apiculate, closed in bud, splitting into 3 (rarely 4) valvate mem- 

 branous lobes. Stamens usually 2-seriate, occasionally 1 -seriate or more 

 than 2-seriate, o-2(), rarely more, attached to a slightly convex receptacle ;. 

 filaments free, as long as the anthers, mixed or not with inter-staminal 

 glands ; cells narrow-obovoid, free from the base, opening by longi- 

 tudinal extrorse slits. Rudimentary ovary 0. Female : Calyx 3-, less 

 often 4-partite, lobes imbricate. Hypogynous disk of 2-4, usually 3, 

 narrow-linear scales alternate with the carpels and about as long 

 as the calyx. Ovary usually S-celled, occasionally 2-celled, very rarely 

 4-celled, cells 1-ovuled; stigmas free, spreading, linear, fimbriate- 

 laciniate throughout. Capsule usually o-ccccous, but sometimes 

 2-coccous, didymous, occuhionally 4-coccous or by abortion mono- 

 coccous; cocci 2-valved, opening both loculicidally and septicidally and 

 separating from a distinct crustaceous or woody columella. Seeds 

 almost globose; testa crustaceous, distinctly foveolate-reticulate, com- 

 pletely enveloped in a very thin aril ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons flat, 

 usually broad, suborbicular, sometimes hardly broader or longer 

 than the stout cylindric short radicle. — Herbs or shrubs, annual or 

 perennial. Leaves alternate or sometimes the lowest opposite, usually 

 distinctly petioled, membranous, usually dentate or serrate, peninnerved. 

 Flowers in axillary filiform interrupted racemes ; males minute, short- 

 pedicelled, glomerulate, the glomerules many-flowered in racemes with 



