Mareya.] cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (prain). 913 



pubescent, subglobose, vslightly sulcate or smooth, thick-walled, 2-celIed, 

 less often 8-celied ; ovules solitary ; styles 2 or 3, connate below, 

 recurved and free above, finely papillose, simple. Fruit indehiscent, 

 depressed -globose, J in. wide, 5 lin. high ; pericarp glandular-lenticelled 

 externally. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, 260-1350 ft., Zenker, 1795 \ 1850! 

 2382 ! 2549 ! 3636 ! 4228 ! 



Very distinct from the other species on account of the much larger indehiscent 

 fruit. 



59. IiEPIDOTUBUS, Baill. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 316. 



Flowers dioecious, apetalous. Male : Calyx globose, closed in bud, 

 splitting into 4, less often 3 or 5, valvate lobes. Stamens 8 ; filaments 

 slightly connate at the base ; anthers oblong, erect, dorsifixed ; cells 

 contiguous, parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary 0. 

 Female : Calyx 3-5-sect ; lobes unequal. Disk or of 3-4 glands. 

 Ovary 3-celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; styles at first connate, ultimately free 

 from the base, simple or^ 2-partite. Capsule 3-dymous, breaking up 

 into 3 2-valved cocci. Seeds strophiolate ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 

 broad, flat. — Shrubs. Leaves alternate, membranous, petioled, glabrous, 

 entire or crenate, 3-5-nerved from the base. Male spikes on the old 

 wood, sessile ; bracts large, concave, persistent, subtending solitary 

 sessile flowers or several pedicellate ones. Female spikes few-flowered. 



Species 3, one from Madagascar and tlie two following. 



Leaves rounded at tlie base; spikes at lengtli rather lax . 1. L. laxiflorvs. 

 Leaves slightly cordate at the base ; sj^ikes dense . . 2. L. occidentalis. 



1. L. \2iTLifLorM'&y Benth. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1297. Shrub or small 

 tree, 15-20 ft. high; twigs rather stout, puberulous. Leaves petioled, 

 membranous, oblong, caudate-acuminate, base rounded, margin shortly 

 and closely crenate, 3-nerved, rarely 5-nerved from the base, 3-5 in. 

 long, 1 J-2 in. wide, bright green, somewhat shining, glabrous above, 

 nerves beneath with long spreading hispid ulous hairs ; petiole puberulous, 

 1-1 J in. long; stipules setaceous, puberulous, 3 lin. long; stipels 

 glabrous, 1 lin. long. Male spikes numerous from below the leaves, 

 when young dense, at length lax, 2-3 in. long; bracts ovate, brown, 

 scarious, slightly pubescent near the margin outside, J in. wide. Male : 

 Calyx subglobose, J lin. wide, sparingly pubescent ; pedicel shoi t. 

 Female : Ovary pubescent ; styles long, slender, simple, pubescent 

 outside. Capsule globose, sparingly puberulous or pubescent, 3-dymous. 

 Seeds smooth, globose. — Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 238. Macaranga 

 Thonnerl, De Wild. PI. Thonner. Congol. ii. 227, t. 4. 



Upper Guinea. Southern Kigcria: interior of Western Lagos, BowJand ! 

 Yoruba forests, ^ar/e;% 3342 ! 3Jil/son, 42 [ 135! Benin, Uuivin, 391 Caniernons : 

 various localities, 2300-4850 ft., Frevsx, 868! Diestel, 560! Jieder^, 393! 430! 

 ZeJimhacli, 48a! Zenker, 187! Ledermann, 1902! 2445! 2475! 2489! 2806! 

 2972 ! 



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