Drypetes. | CXXIJ, EUPHORBIACEA (HUTCHINSON). 685 
_ 21. D. stipularis, Hutchinson. A small tree 15 ft. high; young 
branchlets deeply grooved, sparingly setulose ; internodes 14-2 in. long. 
Leaves oblong or oblong-elliptic, acutely cuspidate-acuminate, slightly 
cuneate and unequal at the base, one half of the blade produced 1 lin. 
below the other, 6-12 in. long, 2-34 in. broad, subentire, rigidly 
membranous, closely reticulate, glabrous and shining on both surfaces ; 
lateral nerves 7-10 on each side, arcuate, distinctly looped and reticulate 
some distance from the margin, distinct on both sides, more prominent 
below; tertiary nerves very few, reticulate; petiole 13-3 lin. long, 
sparingly setulose ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, almost glabrous, 
3-4 lin. long, 14 lin. broad. Male flowers not known. Female fascicles 
produced on the old wood; bracts ovate, pubescent; pedicel about 
2 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals orbicular, about 2 lin. in diam., coriaceous, 
glabrous except at the membranous minutely ciliolate margin. Disk 
eupular, 4 lin. high, nearly enveloping the ovary, glabrous, 5-lobed ; 
lobes quadrangular, crenulate at the top, } lin. broad. Ovary depressed, 
nearly hidden by the stigmas and disk, glabrous; stigmas 2, sessile, 
very large, reniform, entire, yellow, glabrous, completely covering the 
top of the ovary. Fruit not known.—Cyclostemon stipularis, Miill. Arg. 
in Flora, 1864, 531,and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 484; Paxin Engl. Jahrb. 
Xxxiii. 279, 
‘ Lower Guinea. Spavish Guinea: Mount John, on the River Kongui, Mann, 
80! 
22. D. Henriquesii, Mutchinson. A tree; young branchlets 
adpressed-pubescent. Leaves lanceolate or oblong, somewhat caudate- 
acuminate, acute and slightly oblique at the base, 4-43 in. long, 1-1} in. 
broad, coriaceous, glabrous, shining, reticulate. Female flowers pedi- 
cellate ; pedicels thick, about 4-2 in. long in the fruiting stage. Styles 
2, dilated and bilobed at the apex. Fruit adpressed, grey-pubescent.— 
Cyclostem>n Henriquesii, Pax in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 158. 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas: Ro¢a S. Nicolau, 3000 ft., Moller. 
23. D. Afzelii, Hutchinson. A tree about 40 ft. high; branchlets 
glabrous. Leaves oblong-elliptic, caudate-acuminate, subcuneate and 
unequal-sided at the base, 4-6 in. long, 2-24 in. broad, distinctly 
reticulate on both surfaces, margin entire or slightly undulate, 
glabrous and shining on both surfaces; lateral nerves 5-6 on each side, 
more or less distinctly looped and branched some distance from the 
margin; petiole 2-3 lin. long, wrinkled, glabrous; stipules not seen, 
Probably small. Male flowers not known. Female flowers produced 
from the old wood ; pedicel } in. long (in the fruiting stage } in. long), 
minutely puberulous, at length glabrous. Sepals orbicular, glabrous. 
Disk cupular, pilose. Ovary 2-celled, pubescent. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid, 
about 8 lin. long and 7 lin. broad, brownish-pubescent ; exocarp crusta- 
Ceous, ? lin. thick ; endocarp yellow, rather thin.—Cyclostemon A/fzelii, 
ax in Engl, Jahrb. xxiii. 520, and xxxiii. 279. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Jepilun, Smythe, 236! and without precise 
locality, 4fzelins ! 
