1012 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE^ (prain). [Sapium. 



comoensisy Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fiance, Ivii. Mem, viii. 121). 

 A', angtistifolia, Afzel. ex Pax, I.e. Sapium viannianum, De AVild. 

 Etudes Fl. Ba8- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 28H, partly (Lukolela and Djunia 

 Valley specimens only); Th. & Hel.Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 500, partly ; 

 not of Benth, 



X7pper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Freetown and elsewhere, Afzelins ! Smeath- 

 man! Don! Morson ! Scott-Elliot, 5906! Liberia: Monrovia, Dinklape, 24:\9>\ 

 Ivory Coast: Grabo; Mount Toni, 650 ft., Chevalier, 16979 ! Mount Cope, 800 ft., 

 Chevalier, \^10\\ Lower Coinoe ; liettie. Chevalier, 17577! Southern Nigeria; 

 Oban, Talbot, 666! Cauieroons: Johann Albreclitshohe, Buesgen, \09>\ Staudt, 

 609! between Jinjila and Mundame, Winkler, 999! Hatanga, Dinklage, 797! 

 Bipinde,350 ft. Zenker, 1165! 



Ziower Guinea. Princrs Island: Mann! Lower Congo: Stanley Pool 

 district; \j\\Vo\kt\;i, Laurent ! Kriehels ! Kwango district; Dynnia Valley, G'fn^iY .' 



4. S. Grahaxni, Prain. A small shrub ; rootstock deeply buried, 

 creeping und giving ott" erect underground shoots H ft. high at intervals 

 of H-10 in., everywhere glabrous ; stems herbaceous or subherbaceous, 

 several from the crown of each erect subterranean shoot, simple, 6-15 in. 

 high, perulate at and above the base ; scales coriaceous, oblong, obtuse. 

 Leaves subses.sile, coriaceous, oblong or oblong- lanceolate, obtuse or 

 subacute, ba.se rounded or wide-cuneate, decurent on the petiole, margin 

 minutely toothed, 1^-5 in. long, 1-2 in. wide ; petiole 1 lin. long or les.^, 

 with a gland on each side at its junction with the lamina ; .stipules 

 timbriately laciniate, caducous. Spikes terminal, J-2 in. long, slender^ 

 with a peduncle under ^ in. long, with many rather dense se.'^sile spirally 

 arranged male flowers above and 1-2 subsessile ba.sal female flowers : 

 bracts in both sexes 1 -flowered, ovate, obtuse, entire, 2-glandular at the 

 ba.se. Male : (Jalyx deeply ;^>-partite ; lobes elliptic, inflexed at the tip. 

 Stamens ?*, ex.serted. Female: Calyx 8-sect ; lobes orbicular-ovate, 

 obtuse, entire or subentire. Ovary glabrous, not horned ; styles l-J, fi ee 

 almost to the base. Capsule thinly crustaceous, | in. wide, breaking up 

 explo.sively into three 2-valved cocci ; fruiting pedicel ^^ in. long. 

 Seeds globose, yellow and brown. — ?jxca.caria Grahami, Stapf in Kew 

 Bulletin, 1I)0G,'«1 ; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Hippoman, 164. 

 K. giiineensis, Beille in Herb. Chevalier; not of Miill. Arg. 



Upper Guinea. Ivory Coast: Venue, Chevalier, S23\ Gold Coast : Northern 

 'J'erritory iit Cianibaga, Graham! and without precise locality, Evans, SI Togo: 

 Gabotawe, 1000 ft., Kersting, 276 ! Basari, Kersting, 605 ! 



5. S, faradianense, Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorh.-Ilippoman. 

 247. A small undershrub, everywhere glabious ; rootstock slender, 

 erect ; stems several from the crown of the rootstock, slender, woody, 

 sparingly branched ; twigs perulate at and above the ba.se ; scales very 

 small, membranous, triangular, caducous. Leaves very shortly petioled 

 or subsessile, firmly membranous, ovate, obtuse, base rounded or shortly 

 wide-cuneate, decurrent on the petiole, margin hyaline and minutely 

 denticulate with cartilaginous teeth, 1-1 J in. long, ^-| in. wide, rather 

 pale green, nerves ob.scure ; petiole \ in. long or less, eglandular ; 

 stipules linear from a triangular ba<-e, very small. Spikes terminal on 



