Drypetes.| OXXII. EUPHORBIACE (HUTCHINSON). 689 
somewhat lax, rather faint; petiole stout, 3 lin. long, narrowly grooved 
on the upper side, closely and transversely wrinkled, glabrous ; stipules 
very soon falling off, evidently very small. Male flowers subsessile, 
produced in clusters on the older branchlets; bracts small, scaly, 
glabrous or very shortly ciliate. Sepals 5, strongly imbricate, sub- 
orbicular, outer ones coriaceous, inner membranous, shortly ciliate, 
otherwise glabrous, about 3 lin.in diam. Stamens about 25; filaments 
glabrous, Disk very slightly pubescent.—Cyclostemon spinoso-dentatus, 
Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 76. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 2328! 3398! 33984; 3712! 
32. D. major, Hutchinson. A tree 16-20 ft. high ; branches sub- 
terete, with a yellowish-grey bark, glabrous; young branchlets slightly 
puberulous, soon glabrescent. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or elongate- 
lanceolate, obtuse, somewhat rounded and slightly unequal at the base, 
4-10 in. long, 14-34 in. broad, thinly coriaceous, repand-dentate or 
denticulate, glabrous, brightly shining on the upper surface, duller 
below ; lateral nerves 9-10 on each side, spreading, looped and anasto- 
mosing freely some distance from the margin, distinet on both surfaces, 
prominent below; veins somewhat lax; petiole 3 lin. long, deeply 
grooved above, closely wrinkled, glabrous; stipules linear, small, 
scarcely 1 lin. long, pubescent, soon deciduous. Male flowers sub- 
Sessile or sessile, produced in clusters on the older wood; bracts 
puberulous. Sepals 5, suborbicular, 24 lin. in diam., slightly coriaceous, 
Margin membranous and minutely ciliolate, otherwise glabrous on both 
Surfaces. Stamens numerous; anthers 14 lin. long. Disk flat, 
glabrous, margin lobed, lobes protruding between the bases of the 
filaments.—Cryclostemon major, Pax in Engl. Jahrb, xxxiv. 369. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; lower part of Mbalu 
Mountain, 2600 ft., Engler, 1504! Mombo, Engler, 3267! Zimmermann, 945! 
Bick, 75 | Kilimanjaro, Uhlig, 1072! 1236! 
Imperfectly known species. 
33. D. euryodes, Hutchinson. A tree with the habit of Zurya, 
glabrous except the inflorescence; branches and branchlets spreading, 
rather slender. Leaves ovate-oblong, narrowly acuminate, somewhat 
unequal, broad and cordate at the base, 2-4 in. long, 3-1} in. broad, 
ehartaceous, undulate and serrulate-crenulate on the margin, with 
slender and not conspicuous venation ; stipules lanceolate, ciliate near 
the apex. Male flowers not known. Female flowers axillary, yellowish, 
subsessile, Sepals 5, rounded, 2-24 lin. in diam., densely and shortly 
pubescent on both sides, shortly ciliate, coriaceous, Disk fleshy, un- 
equally 5-lobed, shortly ciliate, lobes broad, obtuse. Ovary tomen- 
tellous, 1} lin. long; styles short; stigmas thick, dilated, } in. in diam. 
—Cyclostemon euryodes, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 961. 
Lower Guinea, Angola: Pungo Andongo; wooded rocky parts of Barranco 
Pedra Songue, Welwitsch, 1268! 
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