Micrococca.] cxxii. euphorbiace^ (praix). 879 



axillary, 2-3 in. long; rhachis pubescent. Male: Calyx i^jobose, 

 minutely apiculate and closed in bud, under J lin. wide ; segments 3, 

 membranous, valvate ; pedicels shorter than the calyx. Stamens 

 usually 6, 2-seriate, rarely 3, 1 -seriate, occasionally up to 20, several- 

 seriate; receptacular glands narrow-oblong, all inter-staminal. Female: 

 Calyx 3-partite, less often 4-partite ; lobes imbricate. Disk of 2-4 

 usually 3, linear hypogynous staminodiform scales, about as long as the 

 calyx-lobes. Ovary strigose, usually 3-celled, occasionally 2- or 4-celled ; 

 styles very short, linear, spreading, fimbriate-laciniate throughout. 

 Capsule strigose, 2 lin. wide, breaking up into 2-4, usually 3, 2-valved 

 cocci. Seeds under 1 lin. long, pale brown or pinkish, completely 

 enveloped in a very thin aril; testa deeply foveolate-reticulate. — Pax in 

 Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. 0. 238, and in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 105; 

 De Wild. &■ Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 50 and ii. 57, and Reliq. 

 Dewevr. 209 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 306 ; De 

 Wild. Miss. E. Laurent, i. 129. and Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii 

 279; Th. & Hel. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 492; Prain in Ann. Bot. 

 xxv. 631. Tragia Mercurlalis, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 980. Mercurial is 

 alternifolia^ Lam. Encycl. iv. 120; Baill. Etude gen. Euphorb. 400, 

 and Adansonia, i. 7G. Claoxylon Mercurkdis^ Thwaites, Enum. PI. 

 Zeyl. 271; Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 790; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. V. 412 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 976. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal: without precise \oc?i[\ty, Perrottet,l\5\ French 

 Guiueii : Conakry, Maclaitd, 80 ! Dybowski, 38 ! Lecard, 198 ! Sierra Leone : near 

 Regent, Scott-Elliot, 4117! and without precise locality, Afzelins, 419 ! Liberia: 

 Monrovia and Gr.md Bassa, at Fishtown, Binklage, 1659 ! Togo : Lome, Warneche, 

 187! Misahohe, Ba«»Hflr«w, 258 ! Bisniarckburg, J9?^e//«e'r, 321 ! Xorthern Nigeria : 

 Mount Pattch, Vogol, 194 ! Xupo, Barter, 1494 ! Lokoja, Dahiel I Cameroous : 

 Kriegschiffhafon , Sohlechter, 12394! liatanga, DinHage, 6^71 648! Bates, 122! 



STile ILand. Fritrea: Samliar, near Massowa, Hildehrandt, l^Q \ Saati, 

 470 ft., Schweinf art/?, 22! Schweinfurth cf- 7?ira, 487 ! Abyssinia: without 

 precise locality, Schinij^ev ! Ehrenberc/. Nianiniani : Mbomo on the River Lehsi, 

 Schweinfiirth, 3997 ! Uganda : Entebbe, 3900 ft.. Brown, 25 ! 



lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea : l^emio, Gniral! Nkolentangan, T'^'^^wawn, 

 416! Gaboon: Kringe, Thollo7i,\%^\ 0^o\\e,ThoUon, 4:\^\ French Congo : on the 

 Nyoma, i-ecow^e, 109 ! Brazzaville, 2^/^o//o??, 542 ! Lower Congo : Boma ; Zanibi, 

 Diipuis. Mayumbe ; Bingila, Dupuis. Matadi ; near Matadi, Laurent. Stanley 

 Pool district; near Yumbi, Laurent, ^2\ ; near Kwamouth, ^le/er,- near Dembo, 

 Gillet, Vanderyst ; Kisantu, Gillet. Kwango district; VAo\o, Laurent . Angola: 

 Pungo Andongo ; near Pedra Cabondo, IFelwitsch, 3951 GolungoAlto; near Sobati, 

 Welwitsch, 394 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo: Lake Leopold II. district; Kutu, Laurent; 

 Kiri, Laurent. Aruwiihi district; near liena-Kainba, Dewevre, 189; Linibutu, 

 Laurent. Uelle district; Paku, Seret ! Kasai district; Mukenge, Pogpe, 1332! 

 Eastern Prov. ; near Nyaugwe, Dewevre, 1093. 



Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar: Hildehrandf, 1038! German East Africa: 

 Dar-c'S- Salaam, Stuhbnann, 8526 ! Madossi, Stuhlmnmi, 8119 ! Tsaramo, Sluhlm<inu, 

 6380! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Elephant Marsh, on the Lower Shiro, 

 Scott ! 



Also in Tropical Asia and in Madagascai:. 



