AccUypha,] CXXII. EUPHORBIACEiE (HUTCHINSON). 891 



rhomboid, acutely acuminate, 3 lin. loiig, 4 lin. broad, about 20-toothed, 

 sparingly pubescent outside ; teeth more or less triangular, with stipi- 

 tate glands at their base on the inner side. Sepals ovate-triangular, 

 sparingly ciliate. Ovary trilobed, rather densely pilose in the upper 

 half ; styles 3, laciniate. Seeds ovoid, smooth, about 1 lin. long. — MUll. 

 Arg. in Flora, 1804, 441, incl. vars. bracteosa and pilosa,Sind in Linnsea, 

 xxxiv. 19, including preceding vars. and vars. genuina and glandulosa : 

 Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 230 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. OTO 

 (var. glandulosa) ; Th. Durand & De Wild. Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 51, and 

 Reliq. Dewevr. 210; Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 213; Th. tt 

 Hel. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congo!. 493. A. adenoUnchia, A. Rich. I.e. 248 ; 

 Miill. Arg. in I)C. Prodr. xv. ii. 844. A . livingsioniana, Miill. Arg. 

 in Flora, 1804, 440, and in DC. I.e. 833; Pax, I.e. A. Sivyimertonii, 

 S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 200. Ridnocarpus adenotrichua, 

 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 017. R. ornatus, 0. Kuntze, I.e. 018. 



Upper Guinea. Lajjos: various localities, Millen, 20! 113! 135! 176! 

 Southern Nigeria : Oloke Meji, Foster, 288 ! Caraeroons : Yakubii, Ledermann, 

 2598! 



Xrortb Central. Shari district. Chevalier, 5588 ! 



ITlle Land. Eritrea: various localities, Beccari, 128! Hildebrandt, 388! 

 Schweinfiirth, 221,427, Schiveinfurth ^ Riva, 2219 ! Abyssinia: various localities, 

 8chimper,l\^\ 1414! 3647! Rohlfs ^ StecTcer ! Steudner,5Ul Fetit ! Galabat, 

 Schiveinfurth, 761 ! Niamniam : Kalenjo, Schweinfiirth, 2836 ! Uganda : Unyoro, 

 Bagshatve, 1527 ! everywhere, Dawe, 811 ! British East Africa : various localities, 

 Johnston ! Hildebrandt, 2304 ! Kassner, 396 ! Scott-Elliot, 7326 ! 



Xiower Guinea. Angola: various localities, Welwitsch, 437 ! 438 ! 439 ! 



Soutb Central. Belgian Congo : Monbuttu, Schweinfvrth, 3629 ! various 

 localities, Mildhraed, 2307 ! Dewevre, Descamps, Deheerst, 13d, Thonner, 215. 



Mozamb. Blstr. Zanzibar, Sttthlmann, 709! German East Africa: various 

 localities, Hoist, 555 ! 2227 ! 3653 ! Fischer, 530 ! Mildhraed,^Zl ! Merker, 131 ! 

 588 ! 596 ! Volkens, 46 ! Warnecke, 419 ! Liebusch I Stuhlmann, 1611 ! 6867 ! 6981 ! 

 6988 ! 7061 1 7071 ! Engler, 363 ! Jaeger, 369 ! Metier ! Kirk ! Portuguesie East 

 Africa: islands and shore of Lake Nyasa, Archdeacon Johnson, 19! 42! Davira, 

 Johnson, 77 ! foot of Morainballa, Kirk ! Shimmba, Kirk ! Kurumadzi River, 

 Swynnerton, 796 ! Cliibabava, Lower Buzi River, Swynnerton, 799 ! British 

 Central Africa: Nyasaland ; various localities, Whyte ! Buchanan, 22! 1164! 

 McClounie, 159 ! 



Miiller distinguished four varieties chiefly on the character of the indumentum 

 and the few or numerous glands on the female bracts. After examining a Luge 

 •eries of specimens collected since Miiller's work, it is evident that these characters 

 are of little value and that the varieties cannot be maintained. 



13. A. paucifolia. Baker d: Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1011, 230. 

 Stems apparently arising from a rhizome, slender, up to 7 in. long, 

 much compressed or grooved, long-setose and pubescent when young, 

 at length glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, subacute at 

 the apex, rounded at the base, 1-2J in. long, 2-5 lin. broad, rather 

 shallowly repand-dentate, thinly chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces 

 except the midrib and lateral nerves which are setose ; lateral nerves 

 about 10 on each side, arcuate and looped, distinct but not prominent 



