684 OXXII, EUPHORBIACEX (HUTCHINSON). | Drypetes. 
the younger branchlets; pedicel stout, swollen towards the top, rusty- 
tomentellous, about 8 lin. long. Sepals ovate, 2 lin. long, rusty- 
tomentellous outside. Disk cupular, deeply crenate, thin, glabrous, 
about $ lin. high. Ovary 2-celled, villous-tomentose, 1} lin, ‘in diam. ; 
styles 2, linear, swollen and bifid at the apex, 1} lin. long, glabrous. 
—Cyclostemon occidentalis, Mill, Arg. in Flora, 18€4, 517, and in DC 
Prodr. xv. ii. 481; Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 280. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann, 1158! 
19. D. inzqualis, Hutchinson. Young branchlets yellowish- 
pubescent, angular. Leaves sessile, obliquely ovate-lanceolate, acutely 
caudate-acuminate, very unequal-sided at the base, one side rounded, 
the other narrowed to the base, 2-42 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, 
chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces except on the midrib and lateral 
nerves, which are more or Jess pilose on the lower surface, margin 
sharply serrate; lateral nerves 5-6 on each side, anastomosing freely 
well within the margin, slightly impressed above, prominent below ; veins 
somewhat close, raised below; stipules small, ovate-lanceolate, acum!- 
nate, pubescent, 1} lin. long. Male flowers not known. Female flowers 
axillary, solitary on the young branchlets. Sepals 5, ovate-orbicular, 
yeliow-tomentose. Disk densely yellow-pilose. Fruit ovoid-globose, 1 in. 
long, about } in, in diam., densely yellow-tomentose ; stigmas spreading, 
flat, crenate-—Cyclostemon leonensis, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiti. 280. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Ninia, Talla Hills, Scott-Elliot, 4895! and 
without precise locality, Afzelius ! 
20. D. Principum, Hutchinson. A small tree; branchlets spar- 
ingly pubescent when quite young, soon becoming glabrous. Leaves 
oblong-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, very shortly acuminate, subacute 
and slightly unequally-sided at the base, 34-74 in. long, 14-3 in. broad, 
1epand-denticulate in the upper third, rigidly membranous, glabrous on 
both surfaces; lateral nerves 6-9 on each side, looped and reticulate 
some distance from the margin, prominent on the lower surface ; velns 
forming a somewhat close network; petiole 2-3 lin. long, wrinkled, 
glabrescent ; stipules subulate, scarcely 1 lin. long, hirsute, soon falling 
off. Male fascicles in the axils of the Jeaves of the young branchlets, 
3-6-flowered ; bracts very small, pubescent; pedicel 2 lin. long, 
minutely puberulous. Sepals 4, suborbicular, 2 lin. in diam., margi? 
rather densely ciliate, minutely puberulous outside, ad pressed-pubescent 
inside. Stamens 8~10; filaments glabrous, as long as the sepals ‘ 
Disk small, nearly glabrous, except in the centre, which 1s long-pilose. 
Female fascicles produced from the old wood ; flowers shortly pedicellate. 
Sepals as in the male. Disk thin, cupular, crenulate at the its 
glabrous towards the outside, with a line of dense hairs towards the 
base of the ovary. Ovary densely villous ; stigmas sessile, flat, sem? 
circular, entire, glabrous on the upper surface.—Cyclostemum Principums 
Miill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 531, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 483; Pax» 
Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii, 279. 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island, Mann, 1136! 
