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Drypetes. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEA (HUTCHINSON). 67 
Flowers sessile or subsessile. 
Lateral nerves of the leaves elongated, 
running subparallel with the margin 
iu their upper half . : 3 . 81. D. spinoso-dentata. 
Lateral nerves short, anastomosing 
freely some distance from the margin 32. D. major. 
1. D. laciniata, Hutchinson. A shrub 9-12 ft. high ; branchlets 
subterete, clothed with velvety pubescence, glabrescent when older. 
Leaves oblong or narrowly elliptic, acuminate or abnormally emar- 
_ ginate, somewhat rounded at th» base, very unequal, one half of the 
blade produced 1-14 lin. below the other, 4-7 in. long, 13-24 in. broad, 
papery or slightly coriaceous, obscurely serrate in the upper third, other- 
wise entire, glabrous or nearly so on both surfaces excluding the nerves ; 
midrib densely pubescent below; lateral nerves 7-8 on each side, im- 
pressed above, very prominent below, looped and branched a considerable 
distance from the margin ; tertiary nerves and veins much branched, 
lax and prominent on the lower surface ; petiole stout, about 2 lin. long, 
velvety-pubescent ; stipules laciniate, including the segments 3-3 in. 
long, pubescent ; segments subulate or filiform, about 3 lin.long. Male 
Owers in small fascicles of about 10 in the axils of the leaves of the 
young branchlets ; bracts subulate, nearly 1 lin. long, densely pubescent ; 
pedicel 1 lin. long, sparingly pubescent. Sepals 5, 2 often more or 
less connate, rounded or very broadly ovate, brown-tomentose outside, 
adpressed-pubescent within, 1} lin. long, strongly imbricate. Stamens 
D5 filaments glabrous, a little shorter than the sepals; anthers broad. 
isk-glands transversely oblong, pilose towards the top on the inner 
face. Centre of the flower densely brown-setose. Female flowers in 
few-flowered fascicles arising from the older branchlets, subsessile. 
pals 4, rounded, about 2 lin. broad, tomentose. Disk very thick and 
leathery , 4-lobed ; lobes opposite the sepals, ovate, rounded at the ends, 
Ong-pilose towards the base of the ovary. Young ovary not seen, 
oung fruit ovoid, 2-lobed, subcordate at the base, } in. long, 4 lin. 
broad, hispid.—Cyclostemon laciniatus, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 278. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 1068! 1879! 3570! 
- 2D. verrucosa, Hutchinson. A tree 50-65 ft. high; branchlets 
pubescent. Leaves oblong-elliptic or lanceolate-elliptic, shortly acumi- 
nate, rounded and unequal-sided at the base, 5-7 in. long, 2}-3 in. 
broad, thinly chartaceous, spinulose-dentate, glabrous on both surfaces 
except on the pubescent midrib below, shining above, duller below ; 
lateral nerves 6-8 on each side, spreading, looped and anastomosing freely 
Some distance from the margin, slightly impressed above, prominent 
low ; Veins distinct on both sides, especially on the lower ; petiole 
3-3 lin. long, finely wrinkled, puberulous ; stipules laciniate, about } in. 
ong, segments subulate. Male flowers not known. Female flowers 
Produced in fascicles from the old wood; pedicel rather stout, 3-3 
in. long, sparingly puberulous, at length glabrescent. Sepals 5, sub- 
orbicular, coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, the margin minutely 
