378 oxxn. euphorbia CE.f: (pratn). [Aficrococcn. 



glabrous; lateral nerves 10-12 pairs, spreading; petiole glabrous, 

 2-2J in. long ; stipules minute. Flowers in axillary dioecious filiform 

 racemes 6-8 in. long ; racemes peduncled and bearing at intervals of 

 4— I in. minute spikelets of imbricating bracteoles ; bracts minute ; brac- 

 teoles very minute, orbicular, males 2-3-flowered, females 1 -flowered ; 

 peduncles 1^-2 in. long and rhachis glabrous ; pedicels capillary, glab- 

 rous, V-J in. long. Male calyx green, glabrous, globose with a minute 

 apiculus in bud ; lobes 3, dividing nearly to the base. Stamens 30 ; 

 filaments short ; inter-staminal glands 0. Female calyx 3-lobed ; lobes 

 triangular, obtuse, very short. Ovary sparingly hispid with short hairs, 

 3-celled ; stigmas 3, sessile, linear, plumosely fimbriate from the base. 

 Disk of 3 free short broad scales alternating with the cells. Ripe fruit 

 not seen. — Claoxylori Jlolstii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 372. 



Mozamb. Blstr. German Ewst Africa : East Usainbara, near Amani, 2800 ft ., 

 Engler, 611 ! near Gonja, Hoist, 4261 ! 



3. M. scariosa, Prain in Keic Bulletin, 1912, 192. Shrub 4-7 ft. 

 high; twigs reddish -brown, glabrous. Leaves short-petioled, rather firmly 

 membranous, ovate-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, base rounded, 

 2-glandular, margin remotely crenate-toothed or nearly entire, 3-") in. 

 long, 1 J-2|^ in. wide, rather pale green especially beneath, glabrous on 

 both surfaces ; lateral nerves ^^-^) pairs, ascending ; petiole glabrous, 

 J-i in. long ; stipules subulate, 2^ lin. long. Flowers in lateral difpcious 

 filiform spikes, leaf -opposed or on nodes below the leaves, 2-C in. long; 

 rhachis green, faintly trigonous, rather rigid, glabrous ; bracts rigid, 

 lanceolate, 1-3 lin. apart ; bracteoles of male racemes scarious, numerous 

 to each bract, enveloping the pedicels of the numerous flowers which 

 open singly and quickly disarticulate and disappear, bracteoles of female 

 racemes 2 to a bract, subtending solitary flowers ; pedicels articulate, 

 of male flowers 1 lin. long, flattened below the joint with their angles 

 minutely ciliolate, of female flowers ultimately 2 lin. long. Male calyx 

 white, glabrous, ovoid-globose in bud ; lobes 2-3, dividing half-way or 

 rather lower. Stamens 21-24 ; filaments rather long, free, glabrous, 

 mixed with as many ovoid receptacular glands, hirsute at the top with 

 long hairs, or glabrous. Female sepals 5, free, ovate, acute, their margins 

 ciliolate, otherwise glabrous. Ovary glabrous, 3.celled ; stigmas 3, linear, 

 plumosely fimbriate at the apex only. Disk of 6 free but contiguous 

 short broad scales. Capsule pale straw-colour, 3 coccus ; cocci separating 

 septicidally. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Aniboni, near Tano-a, Saclevx, 1630 

 (coll. 1897)! Mouyouni. Sacleux, 1630 (coll. 1891)! 



4. M. Mercurialis, Benth. in Hook. Xvjer Fl. 503. Herb, 

 annual ; stems simple or branching upwards, sparingly hirsute, some- 

 times almost woody below, ^-2 ft. high. Leaves Ion g-petioled, alternate 

 except the very lowest, oblong or ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or 

 subacute, base cuneate or rounded, margin usually bluntly toothed, 

 1-2 in. long, ^-1 in. wide, medium green, sometimes tinged with 

 purple, ^dull, nearly glabrous; petiole J-| in. long. Racemes slender, 



