922 cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (prain). [N'eoboutonia. 



with 8 (sometimes with a solitary) apical gland ; extra-staminal scales 

 ovate. Female flowers in copiously branched racemes, small, 2 lin. long, 

 ^ lin. wide. Sepals linear-lanceolate, pubescent, connate below in a 

 very short tube. Ovary with tufts of stellate hairs; styles narrow with 

 2 linear lobes. Capsule 8-coccous, dark greenish-brown, pubescent, 

 4 lin. long, as much across. Seeds subglobose ; hilum prolonged down 

 on the inner side. — DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 892; Benth. in Hook. Ic. PL 

 sub tt. 1298, 1299 as to citation but excluding the description and 

 figures ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 980. 



Kower Guinea. Anjfoln: PnvgoAudougo, Welwi/sch, 3591 3596! Cazengo, 

 Gosstveiler, 4376 ! 4376a ! 4746 ! 



Soatb Central. Belgian Congo : Elizabethville, Rogers, 10261 1 



7. N. canescens, Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 91, partly, and as to 

 Schireivfurth's specimens only. Tree, 25-40 ft. high ; twigs rusty 

 stellate-scurfy. Leaves distinctly petioled, orbicular-cordate, acute, 

 entile, 4-8 in. long, as much across, green, sparingly stellate-scurfy on 

 main nerves above, beneath closely and uniformly clothed with fine 

 felted tomentum intermixed with small flat glands; petiole finely and 

 closely scurfy ; stipules linear. Male flowers pedicelled, copiously 

 panicled, in bud globose, 1 lin. wide when open ; rhachis and panicle 

 branches scurfy. Calyx glabrous. Stamens about lM> ; filaments short 

 and thick, hardly longer than the anthers ; connective usually with S 

 (occasionally with a solitary) apical glands; extra-staminal scales very 

 minute, lanceolate. Female flowers in copiously branched racemes, 

 small, '1 lin. long, 3 lin. wide. Sepals linear-lanceolate, pubescent, 

 connate below in a very short tube. Ovary with tufts of stellate hairs ; 

 styles narrow, with 2 linear lobes. Capsule 3-coccous, stellate brown- 

 scurfy with a few longer white hairs intermixed, 3 lin. long, as much 

 across. Seeds subglobose, dark brown ; hilum prolonged downwards on 

 the inner side. — X. africana, Benth. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1298, 1299, as 

 to description and figures ; not of MUll. Arg. X. Chevalieri, Beille in 

 Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Iv. Mem. viii. 77. 



Nile Ziand. Xiamniam : Nabanibisso River, Schweinfnrth, iii. 145 ! 



Zioiver Guinea. Fnncli Congo: Upper Ubaiigi; Honia, near Kaga Do, in 

 tbe I'pper Ombella Valley, Chevalier, 5958 ! 



Soutli Central, lielgiiin Conpo: Eastern Prov.; Mawambi, Mildbraed, 3098! 

 Fort lieni, Kwa Muera, Mildbraed, 2196 ! 



8. N. Melleri, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 2GG. Tree, 30-40 ft. 

 high ; twigs grey- or rusty-stellate scurfy. Leaves distinctly petioled, 

 orbicular-cordate, acute or obtuse, entire, 4-8 in. long, as much across, 

 very firm, green, sparingly hirsute and stellate-scurfy on nerves and 

 reticulations above, beneath closely and uniformly clothed with a fine 

 felted tomentum intermixed with small flat glands ; petiole sparingly 

 scurfy ; stipules linear. Male flowers sessile or subsessile, copiously 

 panicled, in bud globose, 1 J lin. wide when open ; rhachis and panicle- 

 branches scurfy. Calyx usually sparingly hirsute towards the apex. 

 Stamens 20-^)0; filaments slender, considerably longer than the 



