Cleidion.'l cxxii. euphorbiace^ (prain). 931 



rhachis very sparingly puberulous or glabrous ; flowers in clusters of 

 3-6 ; bracts minute, acute ; clusters 1-3 lin. apart. Calyx white, globose, 

 glabrous, 1 lin. in diam. ; segments 3, triangular, acute. Stamens many ; 

 filaments slender, glabrous, inserted on a conical receptacle ; anther- 

 cells with 2 superposed locelli. Disk 0. Female flowers racemose, 

 solitary; pedicels finally J in. long. Ovary subglobose, 2-3-celled, 

 somewhat villous ; styles J- J in. long. Capsule subglobose, J in. across, 

 3-coccous or 2-coccous. Seeds subglobose, glabrous. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Akim, on the Daiisu Kiver, Johnsotiy 437 ! 

 Western Ashanti; Tappa, Chipp, 101 ! Coomassie, Chipp, 141 ! 

 Itovrer Guinea. Gaboon; Pyrat, Oriffon du Bellay, 2 ! 



2. C. Preussii, Baher in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 343. A climbing 

 shrub 15-20 ft. high, with slender green glabrous branches. Leaves 

 long-petioled, alternate, ovate or oblong, acuminate, 3-5 in. long, 1J-2J 

 in. wide, rounded at the base, crenulate, membranous, pale green, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, 3-nerved at the base, midrib with about 

 3 pairs of ascending secondary nerves looping to make an intra-marginal 

 nerve continuous with the lateral basal nerves ; midrib, veins and reti- 

 culations distinct beneath ; petioles glabrous, 2 lin. long ; stipules very 

 minute. Male racemes axillary, shortly peduncled, lax, including the 

 peduncles 3-G in. long, with short spreading or deflexed branchlets 

 ^J in. apart, usually 4-0-flowered, but sometimes towards the apex 

 only 1 -flowered ; bracts minute, acute ; pedicels filiform, longer than 

 the globose glabrous buds. Calyx green; lobes 3-5, oblong, acute, 

 glabrous. Stamens numerous ; filaments glabrous, very short, inserted 

 on a conical receptacle ; anther-cells with 2 locelli. Disk 0. Female 

 flowers and fruit unknown. — Cleidion sp., Benth. in Benth. et Hook, 

 f. Gen. PI. iii. 320. C. Mannii, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 58. 

 Mallotus Preussii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 525. 



Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Oban, Talbot, 615! Cameroons : 

 Barombi, Preuss,4c20 I Cameroon River, Mann, 2202 ! 



67. DISCOGLYPREMNA, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 317. 



Flowers dioecious, apetalous. Male : Calyx globose, closed in bud, 

 splitting into 5 valvate lobes. Stamens about 7 ; filaments long, free, 

 mixed with numerous hirsute receptacular glands ; anthers dorsifixed 

 near the apex, cells distinct, each unequally didymoiis and 2-locellate, 

 pendent from a prominent conical connective. Rudimentary ovary 0. 

 Female : Calyx 5-partite ; lobes valvate, at length reflexed. Ovary 

 3-celled ; styles distinct, entire, fimbriate within, recurved-spreading ; 

 ovules solitary in each cell. Disk very prominent, of 0-8 stout scales 

 hirsute at the tips. Capsule tridymous, breaking up into 2-valved 

 cocci. Seeds ovoid, nesthng in a fleshy aril ; testa hard, thick ; tegmen 

 distinct ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. — Tree. Leaves alter- 

 nate, petioled, 3-nerved and minutely 2-glandular above at the base. 

 Spikes in both sexes forming considerable terminal panicles. Flowers 



