Dr ypetes. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEE (HUTCHINSON). 683 
above, prominent below; veins very lax, raised on the lower surface ; 
petiole stout, 2-5 lin. long, slightly wrinkled, glabrous ; stipules small, 
deciduous. Male flowers fasciculate and axillary on the young branch- 
lets and also on the older wood; pedicel rather slender, 3 lin. long, 
very sparingly puberulous. Sepals 4, broadly imbricate, ovate-elliptic, 
obtuse, 13 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, coriaceous, glabrescent outside, margin 
shortly ciliate, pilose within. Disk small, glabrous. Stamens 8; fila- 
ments I lin. long, stout, glabrous; anthers nearly ? lin. long, glabrous. 
Female flowers: pedicel ? in. long, puberulous, becoming stouter and 
reaching 1} in. when in fruit. Sepals as in the male, but sparingly 
puberulous outside. Disk annular, thick, entire, glabrous. Ovary 
ellipsoid, 2 lin. long, 14 lin: in diam., glaucous, glabrous; stigmas 
sessile, cushion-shaped, entire, glabrous, Fruit ellipsoid, nearly 1 lin. 
long, 7 lin. in diam., glabrous.—Cyclostemon glaber, Pax in Bolet. Soe, 
Brot. x. 157. 
13 Lower Guinea. Isle of St. Thomas, Quintas, 132! Rolas Island, Quintas, 
1! 
17. D. Dinklagei, Hutchinson. A small tree, 12-20 ft. high; 
branches somewhat flexuous, glabrescent and subterete when older, 
hirsute and somewhat angular when young. Leaves oblong or oblong- 
elliptic, rarely lanceolate, somewhat caudate-acuminate, cuneate or 
Somewhat obtuse and slightly unequal at the base, 6-10 in. long, 
12-3 in. broad, thinly chartaceous, entire, glabrous on both surfaces 
except on the midrib and lateral nerves, which are puberulous below ; 
lateral nerves 6-8 on each side, ascending, elongated and running 
parallel with the margin, slightly impressed above, prominent below ; 
Vvelns somewhat lax, distinct below; petiole 4-6 lin. long, rather stout, 
lrsute ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, about 3 lin. long, adpressed-hirsute, 
deciduous. Male flowers in axillary clusters on the young branchlets 
and also on the older parts of the branchlets from which the leaves 
have fallen, sessile or subsessile. Sepals 4, suborbicular, 1} lin. in 
diam., shortly pubescent on both sides, ciliate. Stamens 8; filaments 
glabrous ; anthers d lin. long. Disk thick, lobed, densely hairy in the 
middle.—Cyclostemon Dinklagei, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 520. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Batanga, Dinklage, 798! Lolodorf, Staudt, 
143) Bebai, Tessmann, 550! 
18. D. occidentalis, Hutchinson. A tree about 20 ft. high ; 
branchlets densely rusty-puberulous or tomentellous, deeply grooved. 
ves oblong-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, more or less caudate- 
*euminate, rounded and slightly unequal at the base, 4-64 in. long, 
13-3 in. broad, thinly coriaceous, coarsely crenate-serrate, rusty- 
puberulous on both surfaces when quite young, at length glabrous and 
Shining on the upper; lateral nerves 7-8 on each side, distinct below, 
Soped and faintly reticulate towards the margin; tertiary nerves faint 
and subparallel ; petiole stout, 3-5 lin. long, densely rusty-tomentellous ; 
Stipules lanceolate, rusty-tomentellous, 3 lin. long, soon falling off. Male 
oWer's not known, Female flowers axillary, solitary or subsolitary on 
