940 cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (prain). [Macaranga, 



yellowish glands.— -J/, hurcpfolia, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Iv. 

 Mem. viii. 80. 



Upper Guinea. Siena Leone: Scarties; near Sasseni, Scott-Elliof, 4530! 

 Ivory Coast: liingerville district; between Abidjean and Dnbou, Chevalier, '\bZ\Q \ 

 15449! 35590! liasin of the Middle Sassjindrn ; Guideko, Chevalier, l^AQW Altie, 

 between Montezo and Alepe, Chevalier, 17432 ! Togo, Doerivg^ 291 ! 



15. M. monandra^ Miill. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, ;^)37. A shrub 

 or tree reaching 2b ft. in height ; branches brown- pubescent. Leaves 

 long-petioled, suborbicular or wide-oblong, acute, base rounded or widely 

 deltoid, margin rather deeply repand, 4-5 in. long, nearly as wide, 

 tirmly membranous, dull, glabrous above, finely rusty-puberulcus on 

 the nerves and gland-dotted beneath ; petiole 8-6 in. long ; stipules 

 lanceolate, under ^ in. long, caducous. IMale flowers in small dense 

 lateral panicles ; bracts large, ovate, acute, toothed, subtending several 

 flowers. Stamen 1 {^Midler'). Female flowers in lateral corymbose 

 racemes or panicles. Calyx small, lobed. Ovary densely glandular. 

 Stigma sessile. Capsule globose, densely lepidote ; pedicels very long. — 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. AVelw. i. 082 ; Pax in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 

 xxxvii. 105; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 246; Rendle in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 218; Dawe, Rep. Bot. Uganda, 5G ; Th. & 

 Hel. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 496. lanarius monandrus, O. Kuntze, 

 Rev: Gen. PI. ii. 620. 



Iiower Guinea. Lower Congo, Laurent, 45. Angola : Golungo Alto, 

 Weltcitsch,44i5\ Cnzengo; Monte Bcllo, Gossiceiler, 1^21 



XrUe Kand. Uganda: Sesse Island, Z>au'e, 49 ! ^In&ozi, Boffshatce, 41 



16. M. Zenkeriy Fax in Engl. Jahrh. xxiii. 526. A tree; 

 branches glabrous. Leaves long-petioled, oblong, acute, base '^uneale 

 or deltoid, margin deeply and distantly repand, 4-7 in. long, 3-5 in. 

 wide, membranous, glabrous on both surfaces ; petiole 8-6 in. long ; 

 stipules lanceolate, under \ in. long, caducous. ]\Iale flowers in small 

 lateral panicles ; bracts large, ovate, acute, toothed, subtending several 

 flowers ; buds globose, minute, pubescent. Stamens 2. Female flowers 

 in lateral corymbose racemes or panicles. Calyx minute, obscurely 

 lobed. Capsule globose ; pedicels very long. — Pax in De "Wild, tk 

 Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 50; De Wild, k Durand in Bull. Herb. 

 Boisp. 2me ser. i. 48 ; Contrib. Fl. Congo, ii. 57 ; Reliq. Dewevr. ii. 212 ; 

 De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 277, ii. 284 ; Th. & Hel. 

 Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 41)7. 



Vpper Guinea. Soutliem Nigeria : Old Calabar, Holland, 99 ! Cameroons : 

 Yaunde, Zenlcer Sc Staudt, 514 ! Bipinde, Zenker, 962 ! 1751 ! 1858 ! 2558 ! 2817 ! 

 Efulen, Bates, 262 ! Abonando, Rudatis, 12 ! 



Ziower Guinea. Gaboon: Libreville, Klaine,^\\ 116! 269! 588! 858! 

 Thollon, 140! Lower Congo: Stanley Pool district; near Sanda, Oddoti; Kisantu, 

 Oillet, 249; and without precise locality, Gillef, 1834. 



Soutti Central. Belgian Congo : Equatorial district ; 'Ea]a., Laurent ; Welle 

 district; Bomokandi, near Nala, Seret ; Eastern Province; Ponthierville, near 

 Lokandu, Bewtvre, 1134; Katanga distiict; near Tangnnyikji, collector unknown. 



