914 cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (pkain). [Lepidoturus. 



irile Xiand. Niamniam : Nabambisso River, Schiceinfurth, 2956 ! Linduku 

 (Uiuluku) River, Schweinfurth, 3072! Kuknjo, ^cAtc^iw/ttr^A, 2843 ! Jh-itisb East 

 Africa: Mombasa, Sacleux, 2316 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo: Ubangi; Yakoma, 1460 ft., TAonner, 252 ! 

 Gugo, nenr Yakoma, 1600 ft., J'Aonner, 221. Eastern Province; Fort Beni, Kwa 

 Mueia, Mildbraed, 2272 ! 2375 ! 



XMEozamb. Distr. German East Afj-ica : Dar-es-Salaa»n, JIoUz, 925 ! 

 Schulze,l\ Konerawe, 700 ft., SttihLmann, 6194! Kidonge, Stuhltnann, 635! 

 Poriugut'se East Africa: between Mbiissonie and Caberiei-a, Rodrigues de Cavalho ! 

 Pungwe Valley, Vasse, 317! Gazaland : Boka, Lower Buzi, Swj/nnerton, 1784! 



2. Ij. occidentalism Mull. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 332. Shrub, 

 10-15 ft. high ; twigs slender, glabrous. Leaves petioled, membranous, 

 oblorvg, caudate-acuminate, base very slightly cordate, margin slightly 

 and distantly crenate, 3-5-nerved from the base, 3-5 in. long, 1 J-2 in. 

 wide, bright green, somewhat shining, glabrous on both surfaces ; 

 .petiole glabrous, J-| in. long ; stipules setaceous, glabrous, 1 lin. long; 

 stipels very minute. Male spikes dense, sessile, J in. long; bracts 

 orbicular, yellowish red, scarious, orbicular, slightly pubescent near 

 the margin outside, \ in. wide. Male : Calyx subglobose, J lin. wide, 

 glabrous; pedicel short. Female : Ovary glabrous ; styles long, slender, 

 simple, quite glabrous. Capsule globose, glabrous, 3-dymous. Seeds 

 globose, smooth. — DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 898 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. 1)80. 



]Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; Welwitsch, AQl \ 4081 



60. ALCHORNEA, Sw. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 314. 



Flowers apetalous, usually dioecious, rarely monoecious. Disk 

 usually 0. Male : Calyx globose, closed in bud, splitting into 4, rarely 

 3-2, valvate lobes. Stamens 8 or fewer; filaments free or slightly 

 connate; anthers 2-celled, d orsi fixed ; cells opening longitudinally, 

 ])arallel or slightly diverging, often partially free at the base, 

 lludimentary ovary 0. Female : Calyx-lobes 3-6, usually 4, im- 

 bricate. Ovary 2- or 3-celled, rarely casually 4-celled ; ovules solitary; 

 «cyles di.stinct, usually linear, simple or rarely 2-tid. Capsule splitting 

 infc'j 2-3, rarely 4, 2-valved cocci ; endocarp crustaceous. Seeds sub- 

 globose, estrophiolate ; testa crustaceous ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 

 broad, flat. — Shrubs or trees, usually sparingly pubescent. Leaves 

 alternate, entire or toothed, stipellate or not at the base, sometimes 

 glandular below near the junction with the distinct petiole. Spikes 

 usually axillary or lateral ; male flowers small, clustered on the slender 

 simple or branched rhachis ; female flowers solitary to a bract, in 

 simple spikes or racemes ; bracts in both sexes very small. 

 Species about 30, widely spread in tbe tropics of both hemispheres. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; inflorescences always lateral ; leaves ovate, 



pahninerved, base cordate, without stipels; dioecious 1. A. cor ^ata. 

 Ovary 3-4-celled ; leaves penninerved. 



Leaves without stipels; base usually narrow: flowers 

 dioecious. 



