Acali/pha.] CXXII. EUPHORBIACEiE (HUTCHINSON). 897 



except on the nerves when quite young, rather densely glandular below 

 when young, at length sparingly so ; lateral nerves 5-7 on each side, 

 looped and branched near the margin, very slightly raised on both sur- 

 faces ; veins distinct but scarcely raised below; petiole J-IJ in.. long, 

 subterete, glabrous ; stipules deciduous, subulate-lanceolate, 1 J lin. 

 long, glabrous. Inflorescence bisexual, pedunculate, axillary, consist- 

 ing of one or two large foliaceous bracts towards the base, each con- 

 taining two sessile female flowers, male portion terminal, subspicate, 

 hardly J in. long. Male buds pubescent. Female bracts broadly ovate, 

 cordate at the base, about 1 in. long and broad when spread out, with 

 several nerves radiating from the midrib, crenate- serrate, glabrous on 

 both sides except for a few scattered golden glands on the outside. 

 Calyx cupular, tridentate, membranous, slightly ciliate. Ovary slightly 

 trilobed, pubescent and rather densely clothed with sessile yellow glands ; 

 styles connate at the base, laciniate, about IJ lin. long. Fruits not 

 seen.— Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 866 ; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 

 C. 239 ; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 200. Calyptrospatha pubi- 

 flora, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 97, t. 18. 



Mozaxub. Dlstr. Portuguese East Africa: Inhumbane, Pe^er* / and without 

 precise locality, Kirk ! Gazaland: Lower Buzi River, at Boka, Swynnerton, 736 1 737 I 

 Occurs also (according to Baillon) in Madagascar. 



24. A. boiviniana, Baill. Adansonia, i. 272. Branchlets villous- 

 pubescent. Leaves crowded, oblong-lanceolate, narrowly acuminate, 

 cuneate at the base, 1J-2J in. long, |-| in. broad, serrate, puberulous 

 above, pubescent beneath ; petiole § in. long, pubescent ; stipules linear, 

 acute. Inflorescences crowded, slender, bisexual, 4 in. long, 5-12 

 females in the upper part, the males glomerate in the lower portion. 

 Male buds puberulous. Female bracts small, scarcely longer than the 

 ovary, 1-3-flowered, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, pubescent. 

 Sepals lanceolate, acuminate. Ovary densely hirsute ; styles very 

 short, densely pectinate-laciniate. — Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 239. 

 Ricinocarpiis hoiviniamis, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 617. 



Mozamb. Blstr. Zanzibar, Boivin. 



25. A. acrogjrnaj Po'X in Engl. Jahrh. xliii. 323. A shrub up to 

 7 ft. high ; branches covered with grey bark, glabrescent ; lateral 

 flowering branchlets very short, puberulous. Leaves crowded, obovate 

 or elliptic-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, attenuated to and obtuse at the 

 base, lJ-3 in. long, 1-1 1 in. broad, crenate-serrate, thinly chartaceous 

 or membranous, glabrous except on the pubescent lateral nerves below ; 

 lateral nerves 5-6 on each side, distinctly looped and branched well 

 within the margin, prominent on both surfaces, with tufts of hairs in 

 their axils below ; • tertiary nerves very distant, freely anastomosing ; 

 petiole J-J in. long, crisped -pubescent ; stipules linear-syibulate, keeled 

 on the back, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 2 lin. long. Inflorescences bisexual, 

 fasciculate at the ends of short lateral branches, lJ-4 in. long, male 

 flowers numerous in the lower, females 2-4 in the upper part; axis 

 slender, crisped-pubescent. Male buds sparingly puberulous. Female 



