1014 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE^ (prain). [Sapium. 



not glandular at the point of junction with the petiole, margin entire 

 or obscurely to distinctly crenately toothed, 4-6 in. long, lJ-2 in. wide, 

 medium to dark-green above, paler beneath; lateral nerves 11-12 on 

 each side, secondary reticulation distinct; petiole stout, J-J in. long, 

 channelled above ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, J in. long, very 

 taducous. Spikes terminal on the twigs, 1-4 in. long, appearing after 

 the leaves, with many rather lax shortly pedicelled male tlowers above 

 and usually a snlitary distinctly pedicelled basal female flower, occa- 

 sionally female flowers 2, or ; male biacts short, wide, subtruncate, 

 denticulate, 2-glandular at the base, each 8-5-tlowered ; female bracts 

 lanceolate, deciduous, 1-flowered ; male pedicels distinctly articulate, 

 slightly exceeding the bracts ; female pedicel J in. long. Male : Calyx 

 8-partite; lobes triangular, obtuse. Stamens 3, shortly exserted. 

 Female : Calyx deeply 3-.sect ; lobes rhomboid, acute, with a gland at 

 each sinus. Ovary glabrous, with 2 long lanceolate horns on the back 

 of each carpel ; styles 13, shortly connate at the base. Capsule deeply 

 3-dymous, when fully ripe J in. across, with a thin smooth or 

 reticulately wrinkled epicarp and a very thick woody endocarp, break- 

 ing up rather tardily into three 2-valved cocci, each coccus with a 

 narrow acute appendage about J in. long. Seeds rather wide-ovoid, 

 smooth, brown or mottled. — Durand iV: Schinz, fitudes Fl. Congo, 247 ; 

 Th. it Hel. Durand, Syll. FI. Congol, 500; Pax in Engl. PHanzenr. 

 Euphorb.-Hippoman. 24G, fig. 40 A. *S'. cornutuniy var. coriaceum, 

 Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 115; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo 

 247 ; Th. & Hel. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 500 ; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. 

 Euphorb.-Hippoman. 24(1. S. Pogyei, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 115; 

 Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 247 ; Th. (fc Hel. Durand, Syll. 

 Fl. Congol. 500. *S'. xf/locarpinn, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 115; 

 Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo 247 ; Th. ct Hel. Durand, Syll. Fl. 

 Congol. 500; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Hippoman. 24G, 

 fig. 46 B. iS'. ohlongifoliwni, De Wild, ik Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, 

 i. 52 and ii. 57. and Kel. Dewevr 213 ; De Wild. Miss. £. Laurent, 141 

 and in Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 279, and ii. 288 ; Th. & Hel. 

 Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 500 (excl. syn. Miill. Arg. and Hiein); De 

 Wild. Comp. Kasai, 342 ; not of Pax. S. mannianum ^Vax ex Durand and 

 De Wild, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 107, wholly; De Wild, k 

 Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, ii. 57, wholly ; De Wild. Miss. E. Laurent 

 141, partly (Ibali specimens onl}) and in Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen- 

 Congo ii. 288, partly (Lubi specimens only) ; Th. k Hel. Durand, Syll. 

 Fl. Congol. 500 (Sona-Gongo, Ibali, Lusambo and Lubi specimens 

 only) ; De Wild. Comp. Kasai, 341 ; not of Benth. *S'. comutum^ 

 var. Poggei, Pax, and S. xylocarpum, var. lineolalum, Pax in Engl. 

 Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Hippoman. 246, 247. 



ZiOwer Guinea. Spanish Guinea: Nkolentangan, 1500 ft, Tessmann,2lo\ 

 334! French Congo: Nyanza Valley, Vanderyst ! Jiiazzaville, jBrazra, 181 ! 182! 

 Chevalier, 11186! northward fiom Stunley Voo\, Deicevre, 7Il3 ! Lower Congo: 

 Cataracts district; Sona-Gongo, Luja, 103! Stanley Pool district; near Stanley 

 Pool, Demeuse, 201 ! Schlechter, 12540 ! Leopoldville, Deuevre, 478 ! Galiema, 

 Fynaert, 124 ! Kisantu, Gillet, 484 ! Butaye ! Dembo, Qillet ! Vanderyst, C 15 ! 



