Flukenetia.] cxxii. euphorbiace^ (prain). 951 



jointed above the base. Male : Calyx subglobose, glabrous, valvately 

 4-lobed ; lobes lanceolate. Stamens about 8 ; filaments very short, wiih 

 minute inter-staminal glands ; anthers subglobose, cells adnate to the 

 connective throughout. Female : Calyx pubescent, 4-lobed ; lobes ovate - 

 acute, imbricate. Disk 0. Ovary densely strigose, 4-celled and shortly 

 4-winged ; style very short, with four shortly ovate cruciform ly spread- 

 ing smooth, slightly sulcate stigmas. Capsule 4-coccous ; cocci 2-valved, 

 horned, cruciformly explanate, each J- J in. from the inner angle to the 

 apex of the horn, ^ in. wide. Seed suborbicular, subcompressed ; testa 

 somewhat rugose, expanded in a narrow firm irregular wing all round. — 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 772 ; Pax in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C, 240. Pseuclo- 

 tragia scandens, Pax in Bull. Herb.- Boiss. 2Qie ser. viii. God. 

 ^ Iiower Crulnea. German Scutli-West Africa: Amboland ; Ooliama, Schinz, 

 894 ! DiimaraliiTuf f (Jkanakasewa; DiTrferj 666KOtjitusT"Z)i«?er;"859! "^— " "• 



nxozamb. Bistr. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zauibesi, ^between 

 Shupanga and Sena, Kirk ! 



Very closely allied to P. africana, Sonder, and perhaps ouly a variety of tliat 

 species, but readily distinguished by the more minutely dentate leaves, the larger 

 fruits and the rather fewer stamens. 



?). P. africana, Sonder in Lhmcea, xxiii. 110. Herb ; stems many 

 from a woody base, slender, erect, at first pubescent. Leaves short- 

 petioled, firmly membranous, often purplish when youn^^, narrowly 

 triangular-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, base shortly laterally 

 lobed, wide cuneate, rounded, truncate or shallow-cordate, margin 

 strongly dentate especially towards the base, 1|^-1J in. long, |-J in. 

 wide, glabrous above, sparingly hirsute on the purplish nerves beneath ; 

 petiole slender, J-J in. long, pubescent; stipules linear, small. Racemes 

 simple, spike-like, lateral or leaf -opposed, 1-1^ in. long; male flowers 

 rather few, females solitary, subbasal ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, males 

 several-flowered ; pedicels jointed above the base. Male : Calyx sub- 

 globose, sparingly pubescent, valvately 4-lobed ; lobes lanceolate. 

 Stamens about 12 ; filaments short, with minute inter-staminal glands ; 

 anthers subglobose, cells adnate to connective throughout. Female : 

 Calyx pubescent, 4-lobed, lobes ovate-lanceolate, imbricate. Disk 0. 

 Ovary densely strigose ; style very short, with 4 shortly ovate cruci- 

 formly spreading finely papillose stigmas. Caps.ule 4-coccous ; cocci 

 2-valved, horned, cruciformly explanate, each J in. from the inner angle 

 to the apex of the horn, I in. wide. Seed suborbicular, subcompressed ; 

 testa somewhat rugose, expanded in a narrow firm irregular wing all 

 round.— Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 773. Sajorium africanum, 

 Baill. Etude Gen. Euphorb. 483. Pseudotragia Schinzii, Pax in Bull. 

 Herb. Boiss, 2me ser. viii. C35. 



Iiower Guinea. German South-West Africa: Hereroland, Otjiheveta, 

 Schinz, 895 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



4. P. procumbens, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1012, 240. Herb; 

 stems many from a woody base, rather stout, complanate, prostrate, 



