624 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON). _ [ Cleistanthus. 
13 lin. broad at the base, tomentellous outside. Petals very minute, 
elliptic. Disk short and thick, hairy at the top Filaments almost free, 
1 lin. long; anthers $ lin. long. Rudimentary ovary very small, 
pubescent. Female flowers: Sepals and disk as in the male. Petals 
larger, oblong. Ovary rusty-tomentose; styles thick, rusty-tomentose, | 
multitid and slightly split down the inner side. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 2262! 2264a! 
5. C. polystachyus, Hook. ex Planch. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 779. A 
shrub; flowering-branchlets slender, rusty-tomentose or pubescent 
when young Leaves oblong-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, subcaudate- 
acuminate, acute at the base, 2-3 in. long, 4-1} in. “broad; acumen 
3-6 lin. long, coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 6-9 
on each side, looped; petiole 1--2 lin. long, pubescent. Flowers dice- 
cious. Male racemes axillary, up to ? in. long; axis and pedicels rusty- 
pubescent ; bracts oblong or ovate-lanceclate, obtuse, 14-2 lin. long, 
densely pubescent ; pedicels up to 14 lin. long. Sepals linear-oblong, 
subacute, rusty-pubescent outside, 24 lin. long. Petals lanceolate. 
Filaments united for half their length; anthers 1 lin. long. Disk 
almost enclosing the staminal column, pubescent. Rudimentary ovary 
3-partite ; segments pubescent. Female flowers: Sepals, petals and 
disk as in the male. Ovary densely rusty-tomentose ; styles bipartite, 
tomentose, branches often bifid. Fruit subglobose ; exocarp slightly 
wrinkled, dull, glabrescent ; endocarp horny.—Benth. in Hook. Niger 
Fl. 512, t. 36; Mill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 504. C. angolensis, 
Mill. Arg. ].c. 505; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 955. Bridelia poly- 
stachya, Baill. Etud. Euphorb. 584. Kaluhaburunghos angolensis and 
K. polystachyus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 607. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Madina, Scott-Elliot, 5597 ! and without 
precise locality, Whitfield! Cameroons: Lolodorf, Staudt, 126! 
Lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea: Makak, Tessmann, 327! Makonanam, 
Tessmann, 328! Angola: Pungo Andongo; in the less dense forests between 
Punge Andongo and Luxillo, Welwitsch, 853! between Catete and Luxillo, 
Welwitsch, 354! 
6. C. libericus, V. Z. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soe. xxxvii. 113. 
Branchlets slender, grey, glabrescent. Leaves oblong oF elliptic- 
oblong, caudate-acuminate, obtuse or broadly cuneate at the base, + 
3% in. long, 1-1} in. broad, glabrous on both surfaces; acumen i 
obtuse, 7-9 lin, long, 3 lin. broad in the middle; lateral nerves 4-9 oP 
each side, arcuate but not or only indistinctly looped, uppermost nerve 
prolonged into the acumen. Racemes 3—1 in. long, rusty-puberulous ; 
bracts minute ; pedicels up to 14 lin. long. Sepals oblong, — 
1} lin. long, rusty-puberulous on the outside. Petals linear, spp 
% lin. long. Disk cupular, undulate or slightly toothed, pubescent t0- 
wards the top. Anthers subsessile, 1 lin. long. Rudimentary ovary 
3-partite, pubescent. Female flowers not seen.—Stapf 10 Joe 
Liberia, ii. 648. 
Upper Guinea. Liberia: Sinoe Basin, Whyte! 
