Acali/pka.] C'XXII. EUPHORBIACEiE (HUTCHINSON). 885 



pnrtly, not of Hochst. Ricinocar pus peduncular is ^ 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen 

 PI. ii. G18. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. Hritish Central Africa : Nyasaland ; plateau of Mount 

 Zomba, 5000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Rliodesia: Inyanga, Manika, 6000-7000 ft., Cecil, 

 179! 182! between Umtali and Inyanga mountains, Cecil, 167! Salisbury, Cecil, 

 68! ^M^Zer, 3062! iilo^erj, 4003 ! Gwelo, Gardner, 33! Gazaland : Upper Buzi, 

 Swynnerton^ 383 ! 



Occurs also in Eastern South Africa. 



8. A. chirindica, S. Moore in Joum. Linn. Soc. xl. 199. A 

 much-branclied shrub; branches terete, glabrous; young branchlets 

 twiggy, densely pubescent. Leaves rather crowded, subsessile or with 

 a petiole up to 2 lin. long, obovate or oblanceolate, acuminate to a 

 setose apex, narrowed to a subtruncate base, up to 4J in. long and 

 Ij in. broad, serrulate, membranous, rather densely pilose (at length 

 less so) on both surfaces ; lateral nerves about 5 on each side, distinct 

 oil both surfaces ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, about 2 lin. long, 

 slightly pubescent. Flowers dicBcious or submonoecious. Male inflores- 

 cences axillary on short lateral branchlets, solitary, slender, 1-lJ in. 

 long, rarely a very shoit and more or less abortive female inflorescence 

 terminating each lateral branchlet ; axis densely pilose. Male buds 

 pubescent. Female spikes solitary, terminating short lateral branchlets 

 or the main shoot, 1-2 J in. long. Bracts one-flowered, subreniform in 

 outline, laciniate, 2-3 lin. long (including the teeth), J in. broad (when 

 spread out), pilose outside, teeth long-ciliate, nearly glabrous within. 

 Sepals o, ovate, very small, ciliate. Ovary deeply trilobed, tomentose ; 

 styles 8, finely laciniate. Seeds broadly ovoid, minutely and very 

 closely pitted. — A. psilostachyoides^ Pax in Ann. Istit. Bot. Koma, vi. 

 188, in small part. 



Mozamb. Blstr. British Central Africa : Nyasalnnd; Chikaln, Purves, 16! 

 plains of Zomba, (specimen malformed) Whi/te, S5 I Pvrve.9,llSl Shire Higlilnnds, 

 Buchanan, 22! 40! 81! 119! 703! Scott-Elliot, 8530! Kliodesia : nesir 

 Chirinda, Swynnerton, 380 ! 38i ! 



In Buchanan, \\^, nwii Fnrves,\\^, the female inflorescence is I'lmicnlate, a 

 condition which appears to bo abnormal. 



4. A. Grantiiy Baker a7id Hutchinson in Kew Bidletin, 11)11, 280. 

 A shrub about ft. high; branches very shortly pubescent when 

 young, soon becoming quite glabrous and terete. Leaves ovate, some- 

 what caudate or gradually acuminate, acumen entire, rounded or 

 subcordate at the base, 2-2 J in. long, |-1| in. broad, rather obtusely 

 and coarsely serrate, subchartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, digitately 

 S'-nerved at the base, remaining lateral nerves 4-5 on each side, looped 

 near the margin, prominent below ; petiole slender, |-lj in. long, with 

 a line of hairs in the groove on the upper side, otherwise glabrous ; 

 stipules linear, soon falling off. Flowers dioecious? males not known. 

 Female spikes terminal, about | in. long. Bracts small, acuminate, 

 minutely toothed, teeth gland-tipped, pubescent outside. Sepals 8, 

 ovate, ciliate in the upper part. Ovary pilose in the upper half, not 



