Drypetes.] CXXII. EUPHORBIACE# (HUTCHINSON). 675 
Stipules about 4 in. long. 
Leaves large, 7-14 in. long. 
Flowers subsessile; sepals puberulous 
outside . - c : 5 - 5, D. glomerata. 
Flowers pedicellate; sepals glabrous 
outside . 5 : ° ° - 6. D. similis. 
Leaves smaller, 3-4 in. long . c . 7. D. bipindensis. 
Stipules inconspicuous, deciduous. 
Stamens 3-4. 
Young branchlets glabrous. 
Stamens 3; leaves 4—6 in. long. 
Disk of the male flowers cupular; 
ovary 4-celled . . ° . 
Disk of the male flowers nearly flat, 
thick and fleshy ; ovary l-celled . 9. D. arborescens. 
Stamens 4; leaves 14-23 in. long . 10. D. Rowlandit. 
Young branchlets hairy. 
Disk of the male flowers flat with a small 
conical production inthe middle . 11. D. Klainii. 
Disk of the male flowers cupular, un- 
dulately lobed, without a conical 
production in the. middle. 
Disk of the male flowers hairy on 
the inner side; leaves oblong or 
oblong-elliptic . 5 : - 12. D. Parti. 
Disk of the male flowers glabrous on 
the inner side ; leaves elliptic or 
lanceolate-elliptic. 
Leaves acute or cuneate at the base, 
finely reticulate on the lower 
surface, midrib much more 
prominent than the lateral 
nerves on the upper surface . 13. D. leonensis. 
Leaves somewhat rounded or obtuse 
at the base, prominently reticu- 
late on the lower surface, mid- 
rib only a little more prominent 
than the lateral nerves . . 14. D. reticulata. 
Stamens 8~ca. 
Male flowers pedicellate; young branch- 
lets glabrous; sepals glabrescent or 
puberulous outside. 
Leaves cuneate and acute at the base, 
2-4 in. long ° . . 15. D. aframensis. 
Leaves obtuse and oblique at the base, 
54-8in. long. . ° - 16. D. glabra. 
Male flowers sessile or subsessile; young 
branchlets hairy; sepals yellow- 
tomentose outside . - ° - 17. D. Dinklaget. 
ttLeaves more or less distinctly toothed. 
Midrib of the leaf hairy below. 
Leaves with apetiole 3-5 lin. long . 18. D. occidentalis. 
Leaves sessile. 3 F - 3 . 19. D. inaequalis. 
Midrib of the leaf glabrous below. 
Male flowers subsessile - « «- «© 5, D. glomerata. 
8. D. gabonensis. 
