928 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE/E (peain). [Mallotus. 



and nt Abonnndo, Rvdatis, 107! Cameroons : Mungo, Jiuchholz ! near Bonjongo^ 

 Winkler, 34a ! Victoria, Winkler, 435 ! 440 ! 446 ! 621 ! DeisteU 167 ! Dusen, 

 285 ! Bimbia, Prevss, 1283 ! Higundi, Schlechter, 12402 ! Northern Cameroons, 

 Conrau, 223 ! Fernando Po: Togel, 191 ! Mann, 260 ! 



lower Guinea. Gaboon : Munda ; Sibange Farm, BiiHner, 272 ! Libre- 

 ville, Trilles, 108! Klaine,U\ 333! 364! 371! 439! 534! 2286! 2717! 2730 r 

 2783 ! 2861 ! and without precise locality, Griffon du Bellay ! Jardin, 142. French 

 Congo: Upper Ubangi ; between Krebedje and Posle de la ]\Ipoku, Chevalier^ 

 6068 ! Lower Congo : Stanley Pool district ; Lulvolela, Pynaert, 170, Dewhre, 546, 



Soatb Central. l^elsian Congo: Equatorial Prov. ; nenr Eala, Laurent, 

 Ubangi River; without pvpcive locality, ifft/r^n^ Eastern Piov. ; Maniema, near 

 Kasongo, Dew^vre, 927, 1073, 1543. 



'2. M. oppositifolius, Mull. Arg. in LinncEa, xxxiv. 104. Shrub^ 

 0-12 ft. high ; twigs stellate-pubescent, purplish-brown, soon glabrous. 

 Leaves petiolerl, opposite, firmly membranous, ovate or ovate-oblong, 

 acute or acuminate, base cordate or obtuse, margin somewhat sinuately 

 toothed, 0-7 in. long, 3|-4 in. wide, rather deep green above, paler 

 rusty-stellate on the nerves and glandular beneath, 3-nerved from the 

 base; petiole \\-^ in. long, pubescent; stipules linear, 1-2 lin. long. 

 Racemes axillary, rhachis tawny- or rusty-pubescent, male 4-5 in., 

 female 2J-)^ in. long ; male flowers glomerate ; pedicels longer than the 

 flowers; females solitary ; pedicels as long as the buds. INlale : Calyx 

 globoi^e, 4- (rarely 5-) partite ; lobes valvate, ovate-lanceolate, hirsute 

 without, recurved. Stamens 20-50; filaments free, purple. Female: 

 Sepals 4 or 5, glandular-granulate, recurved. Ovary 8-celled, globose, 

 glandular; stigmas plumose. Capsule 3-coccqus, 3-5 lin. wide; cocci 

 2-valved. Seeds globose, 1 h lin. across. — DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 97(1, mainly ; 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. AVelw.i. 080 ; De Wild. Mis.s. E. Laurent, i. 130, 

 Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 276 and ii. 270, and Comp. Kasai, 

 330; De Wild. A: Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me ser. i. 48, PI. 

 Thonner. Congol. i. 21, ii. 227, and lleliq. Dewevr. ii. 211; Pax in 

 Engl. Ptl. Ost-Afr. C. 238, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 105, and in 

 De Wild, ct Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 50; Th. k Del. Durand, 

 Syll. Fl. Congol. 405. M. Chevalieri, Beille in Bull. Soc. l^ot. France, 

 Iv. Menj. viii. 76. Croton ojypositifolins, Geiseler, Monogr. Croton. 

 23. Acahjpha? dentata, Schumach. k Thonn. Be»kr. (iuin. PI. 410. 

 Claoxylon cordifoliuw, Benth. in Hook. Kiger Fl. 500. liottlera dentata, 

 Baill. Adansonia, i. 60, parti)'. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : between Farana and Falabn, 500 ft., Scott- 

 Elliot, 4461! Ivory Coast: between Alepe and Malamalasso, Chevalier, 17512! 

 between I)av(^ and lioutoubie, Cher^alier, 16Z34i\ Togo: witliout precife locality, 

 Bauniann, 570 ! Soutbern Nigeria : Cape Const Caetle, Brass ! Vogel, 76 ! 

 Abo (Ibu). I'ofiel.lW 31! 36! 48! Cameroons: various localitiep, 1000-2800 ft., 

 Ledermamu 2114! 3768! 3772! 4181! 4236! 4420! 467S ! 4772! Schlechter, 

 12766! Wivkler, 558! 



srile Xiand. Bongo: Paiko, Schvei'nfvrth, 2752! Niamuiam: Nabam- 

 bisso Kiver, Srhwivfurth, 2961! Uganda: Entebbe, Bagshawe, 765! Unyoro, 

 Dawe, 1034 ! 



Ziower Ouinea. Gaboon: Ogowe, Thollon, 278! French Congo : Kassn,. 

 Chevalier, 5089! Upper Ubangi; Kaga Ilonon, Chevalier^ 6570! Krebedje, 



