Acall/pha.] CXXII. EUPHORBlACEiB (HUTCHINSON). 899 



l^ower Guinea. Angola : Huilla, DeJcindt^ 693 ! 3090 ! Mounyino, Dekindi, 

 272 I in dense craggy thickets between Nene and Lopollo, and near Mumpulla, 

 Welwitsch, 432 ! outskirts of the forest at Monino, Welwitsch, 431 I Humpata, 

 Fritzsche, 122 ! 



28. A. br?.rlTiy«ttaclliya, Homem, Hort. Hafn. ii. 909. A flaccid 

 herbaceous annual, 6-12 in. high; stem sulcate, pilose with long and 

 short hairs when young, at length puberulous. Leaves ovate, very shortly 

 and subacutely acuminate, cordate or rounded at the base, |-2 in. long, 

 J-1 J in. broad, shallowly crenate-serrate or serrate, membranous, spar- 

 ingly pilose on both surfaces, 5-7 -nerved at the base, remaining lateral 

 nerves about 3 on each side, raised on both surfaces, more prominent 

 below; transverse nerves very inconspicuous; petiole ^-IJ in. long, 

 rather slender, pubescent ; stipules subulate-lanceolate, J lin. long, 

 sparingly ciliate. Inflorescence bisexual, very short, axillary, solitary 

 or geminate, 6-9 female flowers in the lower part, with the male flowers 

 in a terminal short dense cluster ; axis rather densely pubescent. Male 

 buds puberulous. Female bracts tripartite ; segments linear-oblong, 

 subacute, IJ lin. long, pubescent on both sides, margins rather sparingly 

 stipitate-glandular. Sepals 3, lanceolate, ciliate, J lin. long. Ovary 

 setose ; styles slender, laciniate, otherwise nearly glabrous. Seeds J lin. 

 long, ovoid, very minutely pitted. — Willd, Enum. PI. Hort. Berol. 992 ; 

 Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 870; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 416; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. iv. 59 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. Ind. i. 61 ; Cooke, Fl. 

 Bomb. ii. 611 ; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 239 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. 

 PI. Welw. i. 978 ; De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me ser. 

 i. 47, and Reliq. Dewevr. 210; De Wild. Miss. E. Laurent, 131; Schweinf. 

 in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 309 ; Th. & Hel. Durand, Syllog. Fl. 

 Congol. 492. A. conferta^ Roxb. Flor. Ind. iii. 677. A. elegantida, 

 Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. FJ. Abyss, ii. 246. Ricinocarpus hrachy- 

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



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Batanfra, Lobe village, Sates, 30 ! Jaunde, 

 Zenker ^ Standi, 512 ! Buea, Lehmbach, 190 ! Preuss, 1002 ! Mungo, Buchholtz ! 



Xlle Xiand. Eritrea: Saati, Schweinf urth, 88. Abyssinia: Mezano valley, near 

 Jeladjeranne, Schimper, 1708! Uganda: Ruwenzori, common amongst Bananas, 

 Scott-Elliot, llZl ! Kampala, Scott-Elliot, 7314 ! Entebbe, Brown, 326 ! 



Ziower Guinea. Lower Congo : Mussumba, Pogge, 125 ! Kisantu, Gillett. 

 Angola: Pungo Andongo; in moist places neglected after cultivation, Wehoitsch, 

 393! 



Soutb Central. Belgian Congo: Fort Beni, on the Semlike River, 3ft7i- 

 braed, 2366! Equateur district; Boera, Dewhsre. B..agala district; Nouvelle- 

 Anvers, Hens, 



Mozamb. Blstr. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, Volkens, 2312 1 

 Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 3858 1 British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Tanganyika 

 Plateau, Whyte ! 



Occurs also in India, Ceylon, and Java. 



29. A. psilostachya, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 246. 

 Suffruticose or herbaceous ; stems hirsute or hirsute- tomentose when 

 young. Leaves ovate or rhomboid-ovate, acutely caudate-acuminate, 

 narrowly truncate, rounded or cordate at the base, 2-3J in, long, lJ-2 in. 



