Sapium.] cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (prain). 1017 



2i-6 in. loDg, |-2 in. wide, dark to pale green above, always paler 

 beneath ; lateral nerves 7-12 on each side ; petiole slender, J- J in. long, 

 slightly channelled above ; stipules ovate-triangular, acute, usually soon 

 deciduous. Spikes terminal, 2-4J in. long, rather stout, sessile, with 

 many rather dense shortly pedicelled male flowers above and 1-3 

 distinctly pedicelled basal female flowers ; male bracts small, orbicular- 

 ovate, obtuse, denticulate, 2-glandular at the base, each 3-7-flowered ; 

 female bracts ovate, acute, each 1 -flowered; pedicels in both sexes 

 exceeding the bracts, female in flower about twice as long as the male. 

 Male: Calyx deeply and unequally 2-3-fid, puberulous like the bracts 

 and pedicels ; lobes obtuse. Stamens 2, occasionally 3, shortly exserted. 

 Female : Calyx deeply 3-partite, sometimes with intercalary glandular 

 lacinulae. Ovary glabrous, not horned, 2- (rarely 3-) celled ; styles 2, 

 very rarely 3, connate in their lower third. Capsule coriaceous, hardly 

 dehiscent, usually markedly 2-dymous, occasionally by abortion 1-coccous, 

 J in. across; pedicel in fruit J-f in. long. Seeds subglobose, pale 

 brown. — Pax in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 161; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 

 i. 986 ; De Wild. Miss. E. Laurent 141, mainly, and in Etudes Fl. Bas- 

 et Moyen-Congo, i. 279, wholly, and ii. 288 (Eala and Umangi specimens 

 only) ; Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 213 ; Th. &, Hel. Durand, Syll. 

 Fl. Congol. 500, in part only; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 204. 

 S. abyssinicum, Benth. I.e.; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 285; Pax 

 in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 241. S. Kerstingii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 

 85. iS. elliptictcm, Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Hippoman. 253. 

 Sclerocroton ellipticus, Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 85; Sond. in Linnsea, 



xxiii. 107 ; Baill. Etude Gen. Euphorb. 523, t. 8, tig. 17. Stillingia 

 elliptica, Baill. Adansonia, iii. 162. Excoecaria indica, Miill. Arg. in 



Linnsea, xxxii. 123 and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1216, partly, and as to the 

 African plant only. E. manniana, Miill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 433, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1217. E. reticulata, Sim, For. V\. Cap. Col. 320, 



partly, t. 140, fig. 2, wholly, and in For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 103, partly; 



not of Miill. Arg. Tragia elliptica, Hochst. ex Miill. Arg. in DC. 



Prodr. XV. ii. 1216 ; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Hippoman. 253. 

 Upper Culnea. Sierra Leone: near Farana on the Niger, Scotf-Elliut. 



5342! near Kurusu, Scott- EI Hot, 550S\ Togo: various localities, 1300 ft., 



Kersting, 43 ! 106 ! 226 ! 325 ! 391 ! 580 ! Northern Nigeria : KatHcuru, 



Dalziel, 423! Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 2536! 3271! 3272 p.rtly ! 3286! 



3320 partly I 4103 ! Buea, 3300 ft., Deistel, 39 ! Ngom, 3100 ft., Ledermann, 2069 ! 



Tapare, 4300 ft., Ledermann, 2130 \ Tchape Pass, 4700 ft., LedermnnJi, 2805 ! 



Mba, 3700 ft. Ledermann, 5529 ! Lom, 600-1000 ft., ierfermann, 6329 ! 



Nortb Central. Bagirmi : Senoussi Country ; Ndelli, Chevalier, 7659 ! 

 M-ile X.ancl. Aby.^sinia : Amhara, Rosen! Amliasea, 6000 ft., Schimper, 565 ! 



Begemeder, Schimper, 871! 884! 1691! Adoa, Schimper, 2QZ9\ Uganda: 



Unyoro; Budonga Forest, 3500 ft., Bagshawe, 1492! east side of Lake Albert 



Edward, <Sro«-£ZZio^, 8064 ! loro, 5000 ft., Dawe, 461 ! Ankole; Mnsozi. i^a(7*Aatre, 



145! Kan)pala, Whyte ! Lubwas, Whyte ! Entebbe, 4000 ft., Winkler, 41381 



Scott-Elliot, 7182! Mahon ! Dawe! 



lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas: at 2000 ft., Mann, 1056! Lower 



Congo: Mayunibe, Temvo, Laurent! Cataracts district; Kitobola. Laurent. 



Statdey Pool district; Kisantu, 6^17/^^1031 ! Makela, Van Houlle, 3443 ! Angola: 



