888 cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (hutchinson). [Acoiyphek. 



often bilobed, all ciliate and pilose on the back. Ovary long-pilose in 

 the upper part, hairs intermixed with stipitate glands ; styles purple, 

 conspicuous, about J in. long, laciniate, glabrous. Seeds smooth. 



ItO-wer Guinea. Angola : Malange district, Teuscz, 163 ! 259 ! Gossweiler, 

 961 ! 988 ! Benguella : Mount Elende, Wellman, 1303 ! 



8. A, benguelensis, MillL Arg, in Journ. Bot. 1864, 335. A 

 perennial herb, 1-1^ ft. high; stems erect, shortly branched towards 

 the base, angular, reflexed-setose. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 obtuse or subacute, more or less cordate at the base, 1-3 in. long, 

 |-1^ in. broad, crenate, membranous, setose on the nerves and veins 

 on both surfaces, digitately 5-nerved at the base, remaining lateral 

 nerves 4-5 on each side ; transverse nerves distant "knd indistinct ; 

 petiole ^-J in. long, setose; stipules linear-subulate, IJ lin. long, 

 sparingly setulose. Flower monoecious, male and female on separate 

 inflorescences. Male spikes solitary in the leaf-axils near the middle 

 of the shoot, pedunculate ; peduncle ^-| in. long, rather densely crisped- 

 pubescent ; flowering part J in. long ; bract subtending each cluster of 

 male flowers linear, ciliate. Buds glabrescent. Female spikes terminal, 

 solitary, pedunculate; peduncle 4-5 lin. long, tomentose ; flowering 

 part a little over J in. long, 4 lin. broad. Bracts unilateral, 10-12-toothed, 

 2 lin. long, 4 lin. broad when spread out, nearly glabrous within, pilose 

 outside, with numerous stipitate glands on both sides of the teeth. 

 Sepals 3, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, J lin. long, ciliate, very sparingly 

 pubescent or nearly glabrous. Ovary trilobed, sparingly pubescent 

 and with numerous long-stipitate glands in the upper half ; styles 3, 

 suberect, very slightly connate at the base, almost J in. long, laciniate, 

 with opposite filiform segments on the inner face, glabrous. — A. hen- 

 guelensis, vars, trichogyne and adenogyne, Miill, Arg. I.e., and in DC. 

 Prodr, XV. ii. 844 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 978. Ricinocarpus 

 hengnelensis, 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 617. 



lao-wer Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; Dekitidt, 847a ! in herbaceous wooded 

 places at Moiiino near Lopollo, Welv/dsch, 435 ! Pungo Andongo : near the River 

 Cuanza and Pungo Andongo, Welivitsch, 436 ! 



1). A. senensis, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamh. Bot. 96. Stems 

 woody towards the base, angular or deeply sulcate when young, rather 

 densely hirsute or sometimes only tomentellous. Leaves linear-lanceolate 

 or lanceolate, gradually acuminate, cordate at the base, lJ-7 in. long, 

 J-1 in. broad, serrate, membranous, more or less hirsute or pubescent 

 on both surfaces, 5-nerved at the base, remaining lateral nerves 10 — 15 

 on each side, raised on both surfaces ; tranvsverse nerves parallel, rather 

 distant, raised on both surfaces ; petiole J-lJ in. long, hirsute ; 

 stipules subulate-filiform, '2 lin. long, pilose. Flowers monoecious, 

 male and female on separate solitary inflorescences. Male spikes 

 axillary, pedunculate, J-^J in. long; axis puberulous. Buds nearly 

 glabrous. Female spikes terminal, f-lj in. long, nearly J in. broad. 

 Bracts suborbicular or reniform, 5 lin. broad (when spread out), 2 J lin. 

 long, deeply 7-10-toothed, 10-ribbed on the outside, puberulous and 



