912 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE^ (prain). [Mareya. 



long as the calyx-lobes. Female flowers in the lower nodes, usually- 

 solitary, sometimes accompanied by 2 or more males. Capsule 

 depressed ; cocci 3, subglobose, purplish-brown, 4 lin. wide. — Bent^. in 

 Hook. Ic. PI. sub t. 1281. M. micrantha, Pax in De Wild. & Durand, 

 Oontiib. Fl. Congo, i. 51, and Reliq. Dewevr. ii. 213; Th. & Hel. 

 Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 494, partly, excl. the Lusambo specimens. 

 M. micranthaj var. leonensis, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 792. 

 M. micrantha, var. nitida, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Iv. Mem. 

 viii. 82. Acalypha leonensis, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 504. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Meudelot, 152 \ French Guinea: Konakry, 

 Chevalier, 12165 ! Maclaud, 170 ! Dyhowski ! Fouta Jalon ; between Ymbo and 

 Kouriii, Caille {Chevalier, 14791)! Kouria; near Bowali, Caille {Chevalier, 

 14936)! Sierra Leone: various localities, common, Scott-Elliot, 4158! 4697! 

 5055 ! Afzelius ! Don ! Barter ! Vofjel, 137 ! Winwood-JReade / Smythe ! 

 Liberia: Grand Bassa, Dinklage, 1848! 1901! near Kakatown, Whyte ! Gold 

 Coast : Koforidua, Johnson, 447 ! Cameroons : Victoria, 500 ft., Preuss, 1319 ! 

 Fernando Po : Godericb Bay, Daniell ! 



Soutb Central. Congo State: Aruwimi district; Okanga, Dewevre, 1098! 

 Loksindu, Be wevre, 1121a! 1122! Eastern Prov.; Kewa, Dewevre, 1140a I and 

 without pi ecise locality, Dewevre, 1030 ! 



4. M. acnminatay Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 103. Shrub or 

 small tree ; twigs glabrous. Leaves petioled, thin, obovate-lanceolate, 

 abruptly and acutely acuminate, entire, narrowed from beyond the 

 middle to the cuneate base, 5-7 in. long, lJ-2 in. wide, glabrous on 

 both surfaces, dark green ; petiole glabrous, J in. long ; stipules small, 

 deciduous. Spikes numerous, slightly flexuous, rather longer than the 

 leaves ; rhachis angular, glabrous ; bracts ovate, minute. Male flowers 

 not seen. Female flowers throughout the spikes, solitary ; styles quite 

 free to the base. Capsule subglobose, 3-sulcate ; cocci 3, 2 lin. wide, 

 brown. 



Jaoyrer Guinea. Gaboon : Libreville, Klaine, 2483 ! 



5. M. lon^folia, Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xxxiii. 283. Shrub, 

 dioecious, 4-9 ft. high ; twigs pubescent. Leaves petioled, firm, 

 obovate^or obovate-lanceolate or oblanceolate, cuspidate or acuminate, 

 gradually narrowed from beyond the middle to the narrow-cuneate 

 base, distinctly regularly toothed, 6-12 in. long, 1^-4 in. broad, 

 finely puberulous on the midrib, otherwise glabrous above, minutely 

 puberulous beneath, especially on the prominent midrib and 12-20 

 pairs of lateral nerves ; petiole rather variable, J-2J in. long, finely 

 puberulous, pulvinate at the base and apex ; stipules lanceolate, 

 ad pressed- pilose, 2 lin. long, deciduous. Spikes from nodes on the old 

 wood or females axillary, males several, females solitary, 3-4 in. long ; 

 rhachis puberulous, shorter than the leaves. Male flowers in sessile 

 clusters ; bracts ovate, acute, puberulous. Buds globose, under 1 lin. 

 wide; calyx-segments 3-4, green, triangular. Stamens 2-seriate, inner 

 slightly longer than the calyx-lobes. Female flowers solitary ; calyx 

 4-5-partite. Disk urceolate, distinctly 6-8-lobed. Ovary thinly 



