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Pram.-—A Review of the Genera 
[VII b.] South-East Africa : Natal. Near Durban, 2co ft., Wood 
7582 ! 9439 ! 11810 ! 
Very nearly allied to E. natalensis , but with thicker leaves, which are different 
in outline, and with fewer stamens, which are accompanied by different interstaminal 
glands. 
1 6 . ‘ Aculeatae. 5 Racemi foliis breviores ; pedicelli masculi alte ultra 
basin articulati . Flores minuti; calyx masculus ad medium usque tantum 
fissus; tubus campanulatus. Stamina 6-11; glandulae rhombeae ,. crassae, 
hirsutae, filamentis longiores. Ovarium adpresse strigosum ; squamae hypo* 
gynae complanatae, inter se discretae. Stipulae in spinulas basi dilatatas 
apice pungelites mutatae .—Erythrococca, Be nth. in Hook ., Niger FL , 506 
(1849), et in Benth . et Hook. f. Gen. Plant., iii. 308 (1880): sensu stricto. 
13 . E. anomala. Glandulae receptaculares majusculae, staminibus an- 
theris baud exceptis aequialtae. —Adelia anomala, Juss. ex Poir. in Encyc. 
Meth. Suppl., i. 132 (1810) ; A. juss., Tent. Gen. Euphorb., 32 (1824). 
Erythrococca aculeata , Benth. in Hook., Niger FL, 506 (1849); Bail!., Etud. 
gen. Euphorb., 437, t. 21, f. 10 (1858) ; Muell. arg. in DC. Prodr., xv. 2, 791 
(1866); Pax in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf., iii. 5, 48, fig. 29 A (1890), et 
in Engl. Bot. Jahrb., xix. 87 (1894). E. aculeata , var. acutissima , N. E. Br. 
ex Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot., xxxvii. 114 (1905), et in Johnst. Liberia, 
ii. 649 (1906). Mercurialis aculeata, Baill., Adansonia, iii. 173 (1862). 
[IV a.] West Africa: Upper Guinea. Senegambia; neighbour¬ 
hood of Boquet, Heudelot 856 ! Sierra Leone: without precise locality, 
Smeathman ! Afzelius ! Vogel 162 ! Bagroo River, Mann 879 ! Searcies ; near 
Wallia, Scott Elliot 4790 ! Limba ; Makende, Scott Eliott 5694 ! Liberia : 
near Monrovia, Whyte ! Ivory Coast: Bouroukrou, Chevalier 16579 ! Ag- 
nichy Valley ; Copiekrou, Chevalier 17103! Sassandra ; Soubre, Chevalier 
17990! Southern Nigeria: Western Lagos, Rowland ' Yorubaland; at 
Ibadan, Schlechter 13012! Olokemeji, Foster 285! Cameroons : Johann- 
Albrechtshohe, Standt 466 ! Victoria, Winkler 115 ! 
A very distinct species, the original basis of the genus: readily distinguished from 
every other species by the relatively large receptacular glands and the relatively shorter 
calyx-lobes. The form described as var, acutissima hardly differs sufficiently to 
deserve separate recognition. Heudelot notes that this plant is much in request 
owing to the high reputation in which it is held as a vermifuge. 
IF 7. Subspicatae. Racemi arete spiciformes foliis subaequilongi; 
pedicelli mascidi prope basin articulati. Flores minuti; calyx masculus 
paulo ultra medium fissus; tubus late campanulatus. Stamina 9-12; 
glandulae oblongae , hirsutae, fi lamen tis aequilongae; extrasiaminales per 
paria inter se libera imo basi connatae. Ovarium glabrum ; squamae hypo - 
gynae nunc complanatae , inter se discretae ; nunc staminodiiformes cylindrico - 
