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Africa : East Africa. German East Africa: East Usambara; near 
Amani, 2,800 ft., Eng lev 611! near Gonja, Holst 4261 ! 
7 \ M. Volkensii. Racemi androgyni fibre terminal! femineo, foliis 
breviores. Flores masculi superne in glomerulos aggregati, basin versus ad 
apices spicularum bracteolis laxe imbricatis obtectarum dispositi ; recepta- 
culum maris eglandulosum. Frutex perennans ; folia lanceolata, longe 
petiolata, basi acuta.— Claoxylon Volkensii , Pax in Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost- 
Afrik., G, 238 (1895), et in Engl. Bot. Jahrb., xxiii. 524 (1897). 
Africa: East Africa. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 
7,000-7,500 ft, Volkens 1001 ! Engler 1766 ! Uhlig 131 ! 
8. M. Mercuriaiis, Benth. in Hook, Niger FI., 503 (1849). Racemi 
saepissime androgyni foliis aequilongi vel iis longiores. Flores masculi 
nunc pauci cum unico central! femineo consociati nunc plures absque femineo 
in glomerulos inter se remotos aggregati; stamina glandulis interstamina- 
libus consociata. Herba agrestis annua; folia ovata, longe petiolata, basi 
cuneata vel obtusa.—Baill., Etud. gen. Euphorb., 436 (1858); Pax in Engl. 
Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrik, C, 238 (1895); Dur. & De Wild., Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg., 
xxxvii. 105 (1898); Schweinfi, Bull. Herb. Boiss., vii. App. 2, 306 (1899); 
De Wild. & Dur., Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot, ser. 2, i. 50 (1899); ser. 2, ii. 57 
(1900); ser. 3, ii. 209 (1901) ; De Wiki, Miss. Laurent, i. 129 (1905), et in 
Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot., ser. 5, ii. 279 (1908) ; Dur., Syll. Flor. Cong., 492 
(1909). Mercuriaiis maderaspatensis tricoccos acetabulis destituta , Pluk, 
Phytogr., t. 205, fig. 4 (1692), et in Almagest.. 248 (1696). Mercuriaiis alterni - 
folia , Lamk, Encyc. Meth., iv. 120 (1796); Baill., Etud. gen. Euphorb., 490 
(1858), et in Adansonia, i. 76 (i860); iii. 175 (1862). Tragia foliis ovatis , 
Linn., Flor. Zeyl., 334 (1747). T. Mercuriaiis , Linn., Sp. PL, 980 (1753) 1 
Willd., Sp. PL, iv. 324 (1805) ; Roxb., Flor. Ind., iii. 576 (1832); Grah., Cat. 
PL Bomb., 186 (1839); syn. Rheede excl. Microstachys Mercuriaiis , Dalz. 
& Gibs., Bomb. Plor., 227 (1861). Claoxylon Mercuriaiis , Thw., Enum. PL 
Zeyl., 271 (1861); Hook f., Flor. Brit. Ind., v. 412 (1887) ; Trimen, Handb. 
Flor. Ceyl., iv. 63 (1898); Woodr., Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., xii. 372 
(1899); Hiern, Cat. Afr. PL Welw., 976 (1900); Prain, Beng. PL, 947 (1903) ; 
Cooke, Flor. Bomb. Pres., ii. 609 (1906). 
Africa: West Africa (Upper Guinea). Senegal: without precise 
locality, Perrottet 715! Sierra Leone: near Regent, Scott Elliot 4117! 
without precise locality, Afzelius 419 ! Liberia: Grand Bassa, at Fishtown 
and Monrovia, Dinklage 1659 ! Togo: Lome, Warnecke 187! Misahohe, 
Baumann 258! Bismarckburg, Buettner 321! Southern Nigeria: Lower 
Niger, Vogel 194! Nupe, Barter 1494! Cameroons: Kriegsschififhafen, 
Schlechter 12394! 
West Africa (Lower Guinea). Cameroons : Batanga, Dinklage 647 ! 
648 ! Bates 122 ! Spanish Guinea: Nkolentangan, Tessmann 416 ! Congo 
