Croton. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON). 751 
digitately 3-5-partite, 1-4 in. long and broad ; segments oblanceolate 
or obovate, gradually or more or less caudate-acuminate, narrowed to 
the base, crenate or crenate-serrate, membranous, stellate-pubescent 
or glabrescent on both surfaces; petiole up to 4 in. long, sulcate, 
pubescent or glabrous; stipules subulate-filiform, about 14 lin. long. 
Flowers monecious. Inflorescences axillary and terminal, slender, up 
to 5 in, long, the lower half consisting of subsessile female flowers, the 
upper part of much smaller males; axis angular or sulcate, pubes- 
cent. Male flowers: pedicel very slender, scarcely 1 lin. long; bracts 
2-flowered, lanceolate, about 1 lin. long, sparingly ciliate. Sepals 5, 
elliptic, rounded at the apex, 3 lin. long, membranous, green in the 
middle, transparent at the margins, glabrous. Petals 5, oblanceolate, 
membranous, glabrous, a little shorter than the sepals. Stamens 10- 
13; filaments glabrous ; anther-cells divergent. Receptacle glabrous. 
Female flowers subsessile : Sepals 5, green and glabrous, linear-lanceo- 
late, acute, 3 lin. long, lin. broad, sparingly stellate-pubescent, ciliate 
and with a few gland-tipped hairs on the margin towards the base. 
Petals represented by a hair, scarcely reaching one-third the length of 
the sepals. Disk shortly 5-lobed, glabrous. Ovary stellate-pubescent 
and setose ; styles 3, free to the base, glabrous or setulose, 6—7-lobed to 
a little below the middle ; lobes linear or almost filiform. Capsule about 
3$ lin. long, setose and stellate-pubescent, at length nearly glabrous. 
‘Seeds oblong, truncate, 3 lin. long, 14 lin. broad ; testa silvery, con- 
tracted into groups of small wart-like protuberances.—Lam. Encyel. 
li. 215; Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. 59, t. 36; Geiseler, Crot. Monogr. 75 ; 
Baill. Adansonia, i. 68; Aublet, Pl. Guin. ii. 883; Ait. Hort. Kew. 
ed. 1, iii. 376; Vahl, Symb. Bot.i. 78. C. trilobatus, Forsk. Fl. Aigypt.- 
Arab. 163, ex Schumach. & Thonn. (C. trilobatus, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 556 ; 
Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 411. (. riparius, Kunth in 
Humb. & Bonpl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Pl. ii. 90. C. lobatus, var. riparius 
and genuinus, Miill. Arg.in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 668 ; Schweinf. in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 305. C. perrotetianum, Baill. Adansonia, i. 67. 
C. Courteti and C.. Decorsei, Beille in Bull. Soc, Bot. France, lv. Mém. 
Vili. 71 and 72, Schradera scandens, Willd. in Goett. Journ. Wiss. i. 
(1797) l. Astrea lobata, Klotzsch in Wiegm. Archiv. vii. 194; Hook. 
Niger Fl. 509, 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Adanson, Leprieur, Beauvois, Richard! 
Heudelot, 4651 Thonning! Perrottet, 190! Gold Coast: Salaga, Krause! and 
without precise locality, Cummins! French Sudan: Sikasso, Chevalier, 750! 
Dahomey, Burton! Testu, 199! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1158! Vango, 
Malabu Hills, Dalziel, 158! Katagum district, Dalziel, 211! 212! Lokoja, 
Parsons, 40 | Lagos, Millen, 36! 142! Moloney! Dawodu, 30! 147! Dennett, 
498! Fernando Po, Mann, 405! Barter! Vogel, 217! 
North Central. Central Shari: Souka, Chevalier, 9026! Koulfe, Chevalier, 
9200! south of Bagirmi, Chevalier, 9288! 9572! Fort Archambault, Chevalier, 
10542! Dar Banda ; Ndelli, Chevalier, 6842! 7657! 
Wile Land. Eritrea: Bogos; Sciotel, Beccari, 102! Abyssinia: in the 
Mountains of Mawerr, Schimper, 2215! Kordofan, Kotschy, 21! 85! Pfund, 129° 
386! White N ile, Broun, 44! 
