Tmgia.] cxxii. eupiiorbiace^ (praix). 991 



ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, base rounded or truncate or 

 shallow-cordate, margin finely to coarsely toothed, lh~'2^ in. long, 

 i~| in. wide, very sparingly hispid or pubescent on the nerves on both 

 surfaces ; petioles 0-J in. long, sparingly hispid or glabrous ; stipules 

 ovate-lanceolate, firm, spreading, sparingly hispid on the margins, 

 IJ lin. long. Racemes lateral, leaf-opposed, h in. long, rather dense, 

 with a puberulous or shortly pubescent peduncle J in. long, with many 

 male flowers above and with a solitary, often with no female flower 

 below ; pedicels in both sexes puberulous, shorter than and solitarv to 

 their bracts ; bracts glabrous, firmly membranous, males ovate-lanceolate 

 or lanceolate, spreading, 1 lin. long, females ovate, very shortly 3-toothed 

 at the apex, reflexed, 1 J lin. long. Male sepals 8, wide-ovate, glabrous 

 or faintly puberulous. Stamens 3 ; filaments short. Female calyx-seg- 

 ments G, obovate-oblong, 2-seriate, subequal, accrescent and coriaceous, 

 at length 2J lin. long ; rhachis oblanceolate, pectinately G-lobulate on 

 each side, lateral lobules lanceolate, shorter than the diameter of the 

 rhachis, sparingly shortly setose. Ovary hispid ; styles 3, glabrous, 

 connate in their lower half. Capsule 3-coccous, very sparingly hispid, 

 ^ in. across ; cocci subglobose. Seeds globose, brown with grey blotches. 

 —DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 940 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 984. 



XiO\irer Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andoiiffo ; between Manjrlie and Can- 

 <lumba, Wekvitsch, ^25 \ Huilla; near LopoUo, Welwitsch, 426! Bekindt, 1043! 

 Mounyino, 5900 ft., Antunes, 320 ! ou the Cuango River, lO"" 30' S., Por/ge,5io ! 



A very distinct species, somewhat variable in habit. 



31. T, sliirensiS) Prain in Kew Bulletin^ 1912, 239. Stems erect, 

 rather stout, from a woody base, 1-1 i ^t. high, sparingly to copiously 

 branched, rather densely hispid above with spreading hairs mixed with 

 a few stinging hairs. Leaves sessile or very shortly petioled, ascending, 

 membranous, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, base shortly cuneate or 

 rounded, margin shortly and sharply toothed, 2-3 in. long, J-J in. 

 wide, strigose on tho nerves above, strigose and bristly on the nerves 

 beneath ; petiole 0-1 lin. long, when present strigose and bristly ; 

 stipules lanceolate, rigid, spreading, Ij lin. long, their margins setose. 

 Racemes androgynous, terminal on the stem and branches, 1-3 in. long, 

 with a basal naked patently strigose peduncle J-f in. long, with 

 numerous scattered male flowers above, and '2-d basal female ; pedicels 

 filiform, sparingly pilose, in both sexes longer than the bracts, males 

 glomerulate in threes, females solitary ; bracts lanceolate with setose 

 margins, 1 lin. long, membranous. Male sepals 3, ovate, acute, spar- 

 ingly pilose externally. Stamens 3 ; filaments much longer than the 

 anthers. Female calyx-segments 6, 2-seriate and dissimilar, sparingly 

 pilose externally, accrescent and coriaceous in fruit, ultimately ;)-4 lin. 

 long, 3 outer ovate, pectinately 3-4-lobulate on each side, lobules short, 

 ovate, acute, 3 inner reduced to an oblong-lanceolate rhachis with entire 

 margin but with at the base 3-4 lanceolate lobules, reflexed and patent. 

 Ovary sparingly hispid and bristly; styles 3, connate for more than 

 half their length in a rather stout puberulous column. Capsule 



