974 t'XXii. EUPHORBiAC'E^ (prain). \7Vayia. 



Racemes lateral, slender, rather dense, J-1 in, long, with a naked slender 

 pubescent and bristly peduncle J-lJ in. long, with numerous male 

 flowers above and 1-2 basal female flowers ; pedicels in both sexes 

 solitary to and much shorter than the bracts, h lin. long or less; male 

 bracts ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate,' acuminate, 1-2 lin. long, bristly; 

 female bracts wide-ovate, somewhat 3-lobed, 2-2^ lin. long; bracteoles 

 subfalcate-lanceolate. Male sepals 8, ovate. Stamens 3, subsessile. 

 Female calyx-segments 6, lanceolate, at first membranous, at length 

 accrescent and thinly coriaceous, 5 lin. long, irregularly pinnatipartite, 

 rhachis rather broad, with 4—6 unequal short or long lobes on each side 

 and an ovate or crescentic terminal membranous laminula, occasionally 

 one or both of the distal pair of lateral lobes ending in a similar lami- 

 nula ; ihachis pubescent and bristly ; lateral lobes densely or sparingly 

 persistently setose with stifi' white bristles ; terminal laminula glabrous 

 or sparingly pubescent. Ovary densely pubescent ; styles o, glabrous, 

 united for half their length. Capsule 3-coccous, sparingly setose, 

 Jin. across; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, dark brown with pale 

 blotches.— Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. iU:>; De Wild. & Durand, 

 Contr. Fl. Congo, i. 52, and PI. Thonner. Congol. 21 ; Th. S^ Hel. Durand, 

 Syll. Fl. Congol. 4!)8. T. manniana, Mull. Arg. in Flora, 18G4, 4;']6, 

 and in J3C. Prodr. xv. ii. 1)41. T. Klingii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 

 105. T. calvescens, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii, 324. 



Upper Guinea. Siem Leone : Ha^yoo lUver, Mann, SZ4i I Scarclcs Valley ; 

 K&mhm, Scoit-EUiot, 43111 To^o: Bismarckbnrg, A7tn^, 140! Buettner, 81! 

 Misahohe, Bamnann, 534! Soutliern Nigeria: Lower Niger, Barter, 511! 

 Cameroons: Jobann-Albrechtsholie, 850 ft., Buesffen^ 52 \ liouge, Dm^^m, 318! 



3Lo^irer Guinea. St. Thomas Island : Don, 39 ! 61 ! Gaboon : Libreville, 

 Duparquetl Loango: Chincbosbo, So^awx, 190 ! 



Soutb Central. Belgian Congo: liangala; Monjjallii, at Bobi near Ngali» 

 1500 ft., T'Aonwer, 43! Eastern Province : Vovthem, Mildbraed, 2314 \ Wambutti, 

 Mildbraed, 2893! between Mawambi and Awakuhi. Mildbraed, 3162! 



A very distinct species; tbe form described as T.manniana, Miill. Arg., is based 

 on a specimen which only differ* from tbe type by a teratological malformation of 

 «ome of its female calyx-segments; in most of the specimens examined the 

 female calyx is quite normal. The torn) descrihed as T. calvescevs, Pax, only differs 

 from the type in having the female calyx-segments Itss densely and less persistently 

 white setose. 



0. T. nvitBlensiSy So7id. ill Linmea, xxiii. 107. Stems long, slender, 

 twining, armed with stinging hairs. Leaves distinctly to long petioled, 

 membmnous, ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate, base rounded or trun- 

 cate or shallow-cordate, margin closely and sharply serrate, 2-4 in. long, 

 1-2^ in. wide, sparingly to densely softly pubescent on both surfaces 

 and bristly setose especially on the nerves beneath ; petiole ^-;> in. long, 

 patently pilose and hispid ; stipules linear-lanceolate, erect, i-^ in. long, 

 hispid externally. Racemes lateral, slender, rather lax, l-lj in. long, 

 with a naked slender softly and patently pilose peduncle, |-1 in. long, 

 with several male flowers above and 1-2 basal female flowers ; pedicels 

 in both sexes solitary to and shorter than their bracts ; male bracts 

 oblong-subspathulate, obtuse or subacute, 1J-2J lin. long, membranous, 



