Croton. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEA) (HUTCHINSON). 753 
3, Spreading, linear, bilobed to the middle, slightly hairy below, lobes 
glabrous. Fruits not seen. 
Nile Land. Jur: Abu Gurun Seriba, Schweinfurth, 1845! 
Pax states in his description that the glands at the base of the leaf-blade are 
absent, but they are present, though sometimes nearly hidden by the indumentum, in 
both the Berlin and Kew specimens. 
4, C. dichogamus, Pux in Hngl. Jahrb. xliii.78. A shrub or tree 
with pyramidal crown; branches subterete, glabrous; young branchlets 
densely covered with brown overlapping scales, not hairy. Leaves 
ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse or slightly pointed, rounded 
at the base, 14-24 in. long, 4-1} in. broad, entire, almost membranous, 
glabrous and yellowish-brown on the upper surface, densely covered with 
silvery scales beneath with a few brownish ones scattered here and there, 
not at all hairy ; lateral nerves 8-10 on each side, spreading, faint and 
looped on the upper surface, usually slightly raised below; glands 2 at 
the base of the blade, cupular, subsessile, fleshy, glabrous; petiole 3-6 
lin. long, densely covered with scales; stipules minute. Flowers mone- 
cious. Racemes terminating lateral branchlets, ?-1} in. long, few- 
flowered, the females at the base, the males in the upper part; axis 
angular, densely scaly. Male flowers: pedicel 1-1} lin. long. Sepals 
6, broadly ovate, obtuse, | lin. long, } lin. broad, densely scaly outside, 
shortly villous on the margin, glabrous within. Petals oblong, obtuse, 
1 lin, long, } lin. broad, villous on the margin, otherwise glabrous. Disk- 
glands rounded, fleshy, glabrous. Stamens 20; filaments pubescent. 
Receptacle pilose. Female flowers: pedicel rather stout, 2 lin. long, 
scaly. Sepals 5, ovate, obtuse, ? lin. long, ? lin. broad, scaly outside, 
shortly villous on the margin, glabrous within. Petals absent. Disk 
annular, fleshy, glabrous. Ovary covered with orbicular overlapping 
membranous scales ; styles bipartite to near the base; segments linear, 
glabrous, slightly swollen and minutely bifid at the apex. Fruits not 
known. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Galla country; Belana, Ellenbeck, 337! Daroli, 
Ellenbeck, 1924! Harar, Ellenbeck, 635! British East Africa: Kibwezi, 
Scheffler, 11 between Kibwezi and Machakos, Scott-Elliot, 6711! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Wudeh, VAlig, 558. 
5. ©. Menyhartii, Pax in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 733. A woody 
shrub, 3-6 ft. high, much-branched ; branchlets slender, stellate-tomen- 
tose, at length glabrous with a grey bark. Leaves oblong-ovate or oblong- 
elliptic, obtuse and emarginate, rounded and slightly cordate and unequal- 
sided at the base, $-21 in. long, 3-1 in. broad, subchartaceous, entire, 
green and thinly stellate-pubescent on the upper surface, densely covered 
with silvery orbicular scales and stellate pubescence beneath; petiole 
1-1} lin. long, tomentose ; stipules small and subulate. Flowers mone- 
cious. Racemes terminating lateral branchlets, 3-2} in. long, 5-15- 
flowered, densely covered with pale yellow orbicular scales and stellate 
hairs ; male flowers on pedicels 2-3 lin. long in the upper part of the 
inflorescences, females fewer, on pedicels 1 lin. long at the base of each 
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