Spirostachys.] cxxii. KUPHORBiACEiE (prain). 1007 



Kower Guinea. Angola: Bumbo, Welwitsch, 401 (fl. speciirens) ! 401b 

 (wholly)! German South-west Africa; Amboland ; various localities, Eautanen, 

 210! 217! 345! Schinz,lZO\ Hereroland : Neitsas, Dinger, 677 ! Nels,HH\ 



nXozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Wilhelmstnl ; Kwai, 6000 ft., 

 Albers, 340 ! Tanga ; Luengertal near Amani, JBraun, 1604 1 descent to the 

 Luengertal, 2700-3400 ft., Engler, 888a! Bagnmoyo ; Usaugaui, Holtz, 1129! 

 Mandera, Sacleux, 1316 ! Mhomla, Sacleux, 1840 ! Morogoro ; Uluguru, Holtz, 

 1736 ! Dar-es-Salaam ; between Bama and Massnmgauin, Hoist, 996 ! Kisserawe, 

 Hoist, 1019 ! between Msenga and Mafisi, Busse, iii. ! Portuguese East Africa : 

 Lower Zambesi; Tete, Kirk,^ ! Sena, Johnson, 290 ! Goruro, Dawe, 520! Maganja, 

 Sim; Gazaland, Sim. 



Also in South Africa. 



Timber hard, durable, dark brown, with the odour of cedar {Kirk, Holtz) or 

 sandal-wood (Johnson). In Sacleux'a specimens from Mandera the staminal tube 

 is as long as it is in the South African sj^cimens. 



81. SEBASTIANIA, Spreng. : Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 33C. 



Flowers monoecious, very rarely dioecious, apetalous. Disk (). 

 Male : Calyx minute, open in bud, membranous, usually 3- (occa- 

 sionally 4-5-) lobed, lobes often unequal. Stamens 2-3, rarely 4 ; 

 filaments short, free or connate at the base ; anther-cells parallel, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary 0. Female : Calyx very 

 deeply 3-lobed, usually larger than in the male but shorter than the 

 ovary. Ovary 3- (or occasionally 2-) celled ; ovules in each cell solitary ; 

 styles 3 or occasionally 2, revolute or spreading, entire, free or nearly 

 so, rarely distinctly connate at the base. Capsule 3-dymous or sub- 

 globose, breaking up into 3 (rarely 2) 2-valved smooth or dorsally 

 armed cocci. Seed oblong, subglobose or cylindric, carunculate ; testa 

 smooth ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. — Herbs, shrubs or 

 trees, sometimes armed with spines. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, 

 shortly petioled, penninerved ; stipules very small. Spikes usually 

 slender, rarely stoutish, simple, rarely branched, solitary or fascicled, 

 terminal or leaf -opposed, very rarely axillary; bracts glandular. 

 Flowers small; males solitary or several to a bract, sessile or sub- 

 sessile, often the spikes 1-sexual male; females 1-3 at the base of the 

 male spikes or occasionally few in 1-sexual female spikes. 



Species about 75, all American save the two here described and anoth er, which 

 is confined to the Malay Archipelago. 



Shrub; leaves ovate; spikes branched ; ovary smooth . 1. S.inopinafa. 



Herb; leaves linear-lanceolate; spikes simple; ovary 



aculeolate . • . • • . • . 2. S. Chamcelea. 



1. S. inopinata, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 128. Shrub 8-12 

 ft. high, all parts glabrous; branches slender, cylindric, unarmed. 

 Leaves shortly petioled, firmly papery, ovate or elliptic-ovate, Ciiudate- 

 acuminate, base rounded, margin entire, 2J-5 in. long, lJ-2 in. wide, 

 main-nerves 6-8 on each side, base eglandular, somewhat polished 

 above, paler beneath ; petiole J-J in. long. Spikes .slender, axillary, 

 fascicled, sparingly branched, f-| in. long, females mixed with the 

 males ; male bracts ovate, eglandular, 3-5-flowered. Male : Sepals 



