Chcetocarpus.'] cxxii. euphorbiace^ (praix). 947 



globose-setose or tubercled or both, breaking up into 8 2-valved cocci. 

 Seed ovoid or subglobose ; testa crustaceous, black, pob'shed ; albumen 

 fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. — Shrubs, glabrous or puberulous. Leaves 

 alternate, stipulate, short-petioled, entire, coriaceous. Flowers small 

 axillary, densely fascicled. — Xeochevaliera, Beille in Comptes Kendus 

 Acad. Sc. Paris, cxlv. 1294. 



Species about 6 ; two in India and Malaya, three in South America, and tl;e 

 following. 



1. C. africanus, Fax in Engl. Jahrh. xix. llo. Shrub 6-10 ft. 

 high ; twigs pubescent. Leaves very short-petioled, coriaceous, oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, base wide-cuneate or occasionally rounded, margin 

 entire, 3-6 in. long, IJ-^J in. wide, polished, at firs>t sparingly hairy, 

 soon glabrous above, dark green ; beneath paler, dull, sparsely hairy 

 but soon glabrous except on the raised midrib and nerves ; petiole 

 hispidly hairy, 2 lin. long; stipules linear, caducous. Male flowers 

 glomerulate, female solitary. Male: Sepals 4, imbricate, 2-seriate, 

 unequal. Stamens 6 ; free part of filaments pubescent,subdistichously 

 disposed on a pubescent column, which is surrounded at the base by 

 an extra-staminal ring of 6 unequal receptacular glands. Rudimentary 

 ovary terminating the column, obovate, entire, pilose. Female : Sepals 

 7-H, 2-seriate, outer 3 or 2 pubescent, smaller than the 5 glabrous, 

 much imbricate inner. Disk of 5 triangular laciniate lobes. Ovary 

 densely hispid, o-celled, cells 1-ovuled; styles 3, tawny-tomentose, 

 branched. Capsule subglobose, 4 lin. wide, closely tubercled and setose. 

 Seeds black, truncate ; testa shining ; caruncle distinct, subglobose. — 

 Durand tkSchinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 240; l)e Wild. & Durand in Bull. 

 Herb. Boiss. 2tne ser. i. 48, and Reliq. Dewevr. ii. 212 ; De Wild. Miss. 

 >:. Laurent, 141, and Etudes Fl. ]5as- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 288; Th. i<: 

 llel. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 4t)7 ; De Wild. Comp. de Kasai, Miss. 

 Scient. 341. Neochevaliera brazzavillensis, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 France, Iv. Mem. viii. 54. 



]Lower Guinea. French Congo: Brazzuvillo, Brazzn ! ChevaUcr, 4128! 

 4141! 4149! 11141! 11142! 11207! Bt/boivski ! between Nigoiui nnd X-antchon, 

 Chevalier, 5022! Lower Congo: Stanley Pool district; Bolobo, Laurent; Kin- 

 <?hassa, Schlechter, 12546! 15554! 12802! Leopoldville, Betcevre ; Kisantu, 

 Gillet, Laurent; Kimuenza, Pynnert, ]15; Sanda, Vermuelen {Gillet, 3411); 

 Denibo, Vanderyst. Kwango district; Dima, Laurent. 



Soutb Central. Belo;ian Congo: Lake Leopold II. district; ]\Itini, Laurent. 

 Luiilaba-Kasai district; by the Kasai River, X«Hrc?i^ ; Kamba, Za»;ry// ; Kapiiiga. 

 Laurent; VtwixsX^, Laurent ; Mangba, iawr^'w^ ; Miikcnge, Po^^e, 138 J, 1388 ; on 

 the Sankuru, Sapin ! Katanga district; Mussamba, Fogge, 112. 



71. GELONIUM, Roxb. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. ;324. 



Flowers dioecious, rarely monoecious, apetalous. INIale : Sepals 5, im- 

 bricate. Stamens 10-GO, crowded on a convex receptacle ; filaments free, 

 filiform; anthers oblong, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally, lludimentary 

 ovary 0. Female : Sepals 5 or 8, imbricate. Disk membranous at the 



