Sajnum.] cxxii. euphorbiace.e (prain). 1011 



the base ; scales large, coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acute, pink, deciduous. 

 Leaves short-petioled, firmly papery, elliptic or rhomboid-oblong, very 

 shortly and bluntly acuminate, base cuneate, decurrent on the petiole, 

 margin rather irregularly crenulate, 4J-5 in. long, 2|-2'^ in. wide; 

 petiole J-f in. long, stout, channelled above, eglandular; stipules 

 minute, ovate-acute, deciduous. Spikes terminal and in the uppermost 

 axils, 2-2J in. long, rather stout, with a peduncle under J in. long, with 

 rather lax male flowers above and 1-2 subsessile basal female flowers, 

 bracts in both sexes 1 -flowered, males rounded, shortly apiculate, 

 denticulate, with a large oblong basal gland at each side, females 

 oblong, acuminate, 2-glandular at the base. Male : Calyx deeply 

 ♦3-partite ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, indexed at the tip. Stamens 8, 

 exserted. Female : Calyx 3-sect ; lobes wide-ovate, acute, denticulate. 

 Ovary glabrous, not horned ; styles 3, more or less connate at the base. 

 Capsule thinly crustaceous, very large, 2 in. across, breaking up into 

 three 2-valved cocci; fruiting pedicel very short. Seeds globose, brown, 

 faintly blotched, with a caruncle which separates from the seed and 

 remains adnate to the columella. — Excoecaria Bnssei, Pax in Engl. 

 Pflanzenr. Euphorb. - Hippoman. 101). E. sambesiaca, Pax cV K. 

 Hofim. I.e. 170. 



XVXozatnb. Sistr. Gcnnan Enst Africa: Ugogo ; Mpiijjua, 7/?<.?.se, 96 ! Holt:, 

 3324! Irangi ; Kondoa-Iranj;;'!, Saner, 1974! Portuguese East Africa: Lower 

 Xambesi; Horunia, Meniiharth,14iQ\ 



A very distinct species. Areuyliarth's specimens from l^oruma only differ from 

 those in German Eiist Africa in liaving tlie styles somewhat more distinctly couiiate 

 nt thebnse, and iu having a sliglitly narrower ovary. 



3. S. guineense, 0. Kuntze^ Rev. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 293. A small 

 .shrub, usually 2-5 ft., rarely 10 ft. high, everywhere glabrous ; branches 

 slender ; twigs perulate at the base, scales ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 pink. Leaves shortly petioled, thinly to firmly membranous, oblong- 

 ovate or obovate-oblong, shortly to distinctly caudate-acuminate, base 

 cuneate or occasionally almost rounded, decurrent on the petiole, margin 

 entire or sparingly and shortly toothed in the upper half, 2-1) in. long, 

 lf-3 in. wide ; petiole J-| in. long, stout, channelled above, with usually 

 1-2 glands on each side at or above the junction with the lamina; 

 stipules fimbriately laciniate, caducous. Spikes terminal and sometimes 

 also in the upper axils, 1-2J in. long, slender, with a peduncle under 

 J in. long, with many rather lax sessile male flowers above and 1-2 

 subsessile basal female flowers; bracts in both sexes 1-flowered, ovate, 

 acute, denticulate, 2-glandular at the base. ISIale : Calyx deeply 

 3-partite; lobes ovate, acuminate, denticulate. Stamens 3, exserted. 

 Female : Calyx 3-sect, triangular, acute, denticulate. Ovary glabrous, not 

 horned ; styles 3, connate at the base. Capsule thinly crustaceous, \ in. 

 wide, breaking up into three 2-valved cocci ; fruiting pedicel iV.*"- '^"^• 

 Seeds globose, yellow and brown. — Stillingia gitineensis, Benth. in Hook. 

 Niger Fl. 501 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 302. Exccecaria guineensis, Miill. Arg. in 

 Linniea, xxxii. 123, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1215; Pax in Engl. Ptlanzenr. 

 Euphorb.-Hippoman. 104. E. guineensis, var. caralliensis, and var. 



