920 cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (prain). [Neohotttonia. 



«marginate. Female flowers in simple or sparingly branched racemes, 

 large, 5 lin. long, 8 lin. wide. Sepals lanceolate, accrescent, stellate- 

 velvety, connate below in a short tube. Styles rather broad, 2-fid. 

 Capsule 3-coccous, 6 lin. long, as much across. Seeds ovoid, pale brown ; 

 hilum large, prolonged halfway down on the inner side. 



irile Xiand. Uganda: a day's march from Nandi, Whyte ! British East 

 Africa : Escarpment, 7000-9000 ft., Battiscombe, 59 ! Aberdare Mountains, 8000 ft., 

 teller ! Mount Kenia, Elcpliant Camp, Heller ! and without precise loc.ility, 

 Elliott, 22 ! 146 I Powell, 150 ! Hutckins ! 



Mozaxnb. Blstr. German Eiist Afiica: Wilhelmstal; West Usambara, 

 Waruui, 4700-5000 ft., Engler! 1083! RraiK^a; Ru^^ege Torest, 6400 ft., at 

 Uukurera, Nizaliindi, and Niruss^si, Mildbraed, 1026! 1038! 1039! Soutii of 

 Karissimbi, 8500 ft., Mildbraed, 1564 ! Uhehe ; near Mufindi, 6200 ft., Ooetze, 758 I 



2. N. diaguissensiSy Beille in Ball. Soc. Bot. France^ Ivii. Mem. 

 viii. 125. Small tree; twigs stellate-pubescent and softly velvety with 

 long white hairs. Leaves distinctly petioled, orbicular-cordate, acute 

 or obtuse, somewhat undulate,- crenate, 5—6 in. long, as much across, 

 green, pubescent on nerves, veins and reticulations only, beneath with 

 stellate tufts mixed with long subsimple hairs, above with long simple 

 bulbous-based hairs only ; petioles closely velvety ,' stipules minute, 

 ovate-lanceolate. Male flowers shortly pedicelled, copiously panicled, 

 in bud ovate, apiculate, IJ lin. wide when open; rhachis and panicle- 

 branches velvety. Calyx sparingly hirsute at the apex. Stamens 15— 

 20; filaments about as long as the anthers; connective with a single 

 gland, occasionally with 2-3 apical glands ; extra-staminal scales ovate. 

 Female flowers and fruit unknown. 



Upper Guinea. French Guinea: high plateau of Din guissa. Chevalier, 12691 ! 



3. N. Manniiy Benth. in Hook. Ic. PI. sub t. 1298. Small tree, 

 20-35 ft. high ; twigs stellate -scurfy, tufts mixed with a few long 

 white hairs. Leaves distinctly petioled, orbicular -cordate, acute or 

 obtuse, entire, 4-8 in. long, as much across, green, pubescent on nerves 

 and veins only, beneath densely scurfy and softly pubescent with long 

 hairs especially on main and secondary nerves, above sparsely scurty 

 and sparingly beset with long simple hairs on main nerves ; petiole 

 softly and sparingly hirsute ; stipules minute, ovate-lanceolate. Male 

 flowers pedicelled, copiously panicled, in bud globose, 1 lin. wide when 

 open ; rhachis and panicle-branches sparingly scurfy. Calyx sparinjjly 

 hirsute at the apex. Stamens 15-20 ; filaments longer than the anthers; 

 connective usually with a single (sometimes with 2-3) terminal glands; 

 extra-staminal scales ovate. Female flowers in copiously branched 

 racemes, small, 2 lin. long, 3 lin. wide. Sepals wide triangular, finely 

 pubescent, connate below in a tube longer than the lobes. Styles 

 narrow, with 2 linear lobes. Fruit unknown. — Benth. et Hook, f . Gen. 

 PI. iii. 317. Concerelha africana, Miill. Arg. in Flora, 18G4, 530. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : liangkon, Conrau, 149 ! Bue:«, 3300 ft., 

 Lembach, 203 ! Deittd, 643 ! Seder, 562 ! 



]Lower Guinea. Princes Island, Mann, 1]27! 



