248 P- P^^- — Euphorbiaceae-Hippomaneae. 



85. S. melanostictum (Baill.) Pax et K. Hoffm. — Excoecaria melanosticta Müll. 

 Arg. in Linnaea XXXII. (1863) 122; in DG. Prodr. XV. 2. (1866) 1214; Baill. in Eist, 

 phys. nat. polit. Madagascar XXXIV. 4. (1890) t. 203. — Stillingia melanosticta Baill. 

 Adansonia I. (1861) 285. — Gnemidostachys madagascariensis Bojer, Hort. maur. 

 (I8;n) 28 4. — Sapmm (?) HüdebrcmdtiiVax in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XIX. (1894) 116. — 



Fig. 47. Sapium suffruticosum Pax. — A Habitus. B Inflorescentia (J partialis. G ßractea 

 (5 a facie superiore visa. D Calyx ^. E Flos Q. — Icon. origin. 



Groton melanostictus Boiv. in Sched, ex Baill. — Arbor glaberrima; ramuli tenues, 

 lignosi. Petiolus 2 — 5 mm longus, crassus; limbus 7 — 10 cm longus, 2Y2 — 4 cm latus, 

 oblongo-ellipticus vel ovato-lanceolatus, basi acutiusculus , apice aeuminatus, nitidus, 

 subtus pallidior, utroque latere repando- 7 — 9-dentatus vel subinteger, subtus reticulato- 

 venosus et glandulis paucis maculatus. Spicae 4 cm longae, terminales, tenues, dissite 

 florigerae, glabrae; braoteae vix 2/3 mm longae, late ovatae, basi bidentatae et biglandu- 

 losae, denticulatae, q^ 3 — 5-florae; flores (^ sessiles, ^ pedicellati. Calyx (^ cupu- 

 latiis, irregulariter lobatus et denticulatus; sepala Q late ovata, denticulata in sinubus 



