^^eoboutonia.] cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (prain). 925 



anthers ; connective usually with 3 (rarely with a solitary) apical glands ; 

 extra-staminal scales oblong, truncate or emarginate. Female flowers 

 in branched racemes, branches not very copious, small, 2 lin. long, 3 lin. 

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

 tube. Ovary rather closely strigose ; styles narrow, with 2 linear lobes. 

 Capsule 3-coccous, dark brown, pubescent, 4 lin. long, as much across. 

 Seeds subglobose, hilum prolonged downwards on inner side. — Prain 

 ex S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 201. iV. canescens, Pax in Engl» 

 Jahrb. xix. 91, mainly, but excl. Schweinfurth's specimens; Pax in 

 En?l. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 23« ; Dawe, Rep. Bot. Uganda, 56. Mallotus 

 Melleri, Miill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 4(18 ; DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 959 ; Dawe, 

 Rep. Bot. Uganda, 50. 



Nile Ziand. Uganda: Toro; on the Xsongi River, 4000 it.. Bane, 841! on 

 the liigera, 4000 ft., Bagshawe, 1130 ! Ankole, 5000 ft., Bawe, 445 ! 475! 



Soutb Central. IJelgiaii Congo : Eastern Prov. ; Ruwenzori, 4000 it., 

 Mildb.'ued, 2471 ! 2744 ! 



Mozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa: Bukoba, StuJiImann, 1091 I 1150! 

 1565! 1582! 3321! 3745 ! Kabotschi, J'l^/^e;-, 527 ! Portuguese East Africa : 

 Gazahuul ; Mount Marunia, 3500 ft., Stoi/nnertou, 686 ! Kurnniadzi, 2000 ft., 

 Swynnertou, 1124! Jiritish Central Africa: Nyasahind; Zomba, WTiyte ! 911 

 Manganja Hills, Metier ! Shire Highlands, BucJianan, 12! 21 ! 344 ! 1498! 



(\'2. NECEPSIA, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 343. 



Flowers monoecious, apetalous. Male : Calyx ovoid -globose with 

 4 valvate ascending segments. Stamens numerous, free, inserted on a 

 globose receptacle, mixed with oblong densely pubescent glands ; 

 anthers introrse, longitudinally attached to a rather widened connective 

 which is produced slightly beyond the anthers. Rudimentary ovary 0, 

 Female : Sepals 5, imbricate. Disk thick, flat, with a slightly crenulate 

 margin, glabrous below and on the edge, densely setose on the free 

 })ortion above. Ovary 3-celled, densely setose, cells 1-ovuled ; styles 3, 

 bitid, very stout, somewhat reflexed, very slightly connate at the base, 

 hairy externally, papillose on the face. — Tree. Leaves alternate, dis- 

 tinctly petioled, minutely and remotely toothed. Flmvers in axillary 

 androgynous or 1-sexual spikes; males many fascicled with a single 

 central female, or males many fascicled without a central female, or 

 solitary females subtended by several bracts ; bracts rigid, subscarious. 



A single endemic species. 



1. N. Afzelii, Prain in Kew. Bulletin, ISIO, 343. A tree; twigs 

 at tirst finely tawny-puberulous, soon becoming glabrous. Leaves 

 shortly petioled, oblong-ovate or ovate, acutely acuminate, tip mucronu- 

 late, minutely and remotely toothed, base wide-cuneate, 2-glandular 

 -beneath, 4-10 in. long, 2^-3 J in. wide, glabrous on both surfaces, firmly 

 chartaceous ; main nerves 7-8 on each side, arching ; transverse veinlets 

 nearly parallel ; all prominent beneath, midrib and main nerves also 

 prominent above; petiole J-1 in. long, glabrous, channelled above; 

 stipules lanceolate, rigid, subscarious, persistent, 3 lin. long. Spikes 



