Erythrococca. 



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Subsect. I. 1a. Racemosae Pax et K. Hoffm. 



Erythrococca § Eudeflersieae, %Berberideae et §Aculeatae Prain in Ann. Bot XXV 

 (1911) 608, 612, 613, 614. 



Inflorescentiae racemosae, foliis breviores. 



I. E. abyssinica Pax in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XIX. (1894) 87; Prain in Ann. Bot. 

 XXV. (191 1) 612; in Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. 1 . (1 91 2) 856. — Mercurialis spec. Deflers, Voy. 

 Yemen (1889) 203. — Glaoxylon Deflersii Schweinf. in Sched. — Deflersia erythro- 

 cocca Schweinf. ex Penzig in Att. Congr. Bot. Genova 1892 (1893) 359. — Frutex 



Fig. 14. Erythrococca abyssinica Pax. A Ramulus $. B Folii axilla cum stipula indurata. 

 Alabastrum <3. D Flos Q. — Icon. origin. 



ad 3 m altus; ramuli juveniles pilosi, mox glabrescentes, demum cortice viridi-cineras- 

 cente tecti. Petiolus 5 — 10 mm longus, pilosus; limbus 5 — 1 3 J /2 cm longus, 2 — 6 cm 

 latus, ellipticus vel ovato-oblongus, basi acutus, apice acuminatus, denticulatus vel repando- 

 dentatus, chartaceus, opacus, juvenilis rubescens; spinae stipulares lutescentes, breves, 

 i 1 mm longae. Bacemi 2 — 3^2 cm longi, graciles; rhachis cum pedicellis glabra; 

 bracteae late trianguläres, q? inciso-denticulatae, Q denticulatae; flores secus rhachin 

 inflorescentiae fasciculati; pedicelli 1 — 2 mm longi, capillacei. Calyx (^ in alabastro 

 depressus, apiculatus, 1 i / 2 mm latus, sub anthesi 3-lobus, glaber; lobi late ovati, ob- 

 tuse acuminati: disci glandulae extrastaminales et juxtastaminales cylindricae, pilosae; 

 stamina db 10. Sepala Q 3, late ovata, breviter acuminata, basi incrassata, glabra, 

 i: 1 mm longa; disci glandulae 3, e basi parum dilatata lineares, glabrae, sepalis 

 longiores; ovarium glabrum, 3-coccum. — Fig. 14. 



