754 CXXII. EUPHORBIACE& (HUTCHINSON). [ Croton. 
inflorescence ; bracts small, pubescent. Male flowers: Sepals 5, ovate, 
subacute, 1 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, glabrous within. Petals narrowly 
oblanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 1} lin. long, shortly pubescent on the 
inner side and ciliate. Stamens 15; filaments slightly hairy. Recep- 
tacle pilose. Female flowers: Calyx 5-lobed to two-thirds of the way 
down; lobes ovate, obtuse, I lin. long, ? lin. broad, scaly outside, slightly 
pubescent within. Petals absent. Disk annular, fleshy, entire, glabrous. 
Ovary subglobose, densely covered with light brown orbicular scales ; 
styles 3-4, deeply bilobed, lobes linear, entire or bifid, incurved, ? lin. 
long, glabrous. Fruits 3 lin. long, scaly. Seeds light brown, oblong- 
ellipsoid, 24 lin. long, 13 lin. broad, slightly shining, smooth.—C. pul- 
chellus, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 572, partly, as to syn. Klotzsch, 
not of Baill. C. kwebensis, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 140. 
Argyrodendron bicolor, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 102 
{not Croton bicolor, Roxb.). 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Tula River, Kirk ! near Samburu, Kassner, 
482! without precise locality, 40 miles from the coast, Johnston ! 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Great Namaqualand; Auas 
Mountains, Dinter, 819! ' 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: road to Sonja, Merker,575! Portu- 
guese East Africa: near Tete, Kirk ! Tete, Peters! Boruma, Menyharth! on the 
Marenga, Menyharth, 796, 797. 
South Central. Ngamiland: Kwebe Hills, Lugard, 34! Mrs. Lugard, 41! 
6. C. somalensis, Vatke ¢ Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 535. A shrub; 
branches terete, slightly glaucous ; young branchlets covered with grey 
orbicular fringed scales. Leaves ovate, obtuse or slightly mucronate, 
rounded or subcordate at the base, 4-1} in. long, }-1 in. broad, entire or 
undulate, thinly chartaceous, rather softly pubescent with slender short 
stellate hairs above, tomentellous with stellate hairs and scales below ; 
lateral nerves 6-8 on each side, nearly straight, faded towards the 
margin, very slightly impressed and nearly invisible above, prominent 
below ; petiole 3-6 lin. long, tomentellous ; stipules small, subulate, } lin. 
long. Flowers monecious. Racemes terminal, about 1 in. long, bisexual 
or only female at the base, the males in the upper part; bracts linear, 
4 lin. long, tomentose. Male flowers: Sepals 5, ovate, 1 lin. long; 
2 lin. broad, stellate-pubescent outside, glabrous within. — Petals 5, 
oblong-oblanceolate, 1} lin. long, densely villous on the margin. Disk- 
glands opposite the sepals, fleshy, glabrous. Stamens 12-16; filaments 
glabrous. Receptacle pilose. Female flowers: Sepals as in the male. 
Petals none or reduced ‘to 1, linear, nearly as long as the sepals, densely 
pubescent. Disk fleshy, slightly pubescent. Ovary globose, stellate- 
tomentose ; styles spreading, bilobed, pubescent on the back. 
Wile Land. Somaliland: Ab] Mountains, Hildebrandt, 1530! 
Mrs. Lort Phillips! 
Widaba, 
A small 
7. C. integrifolius, Pax in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 732. cribs 
shrub 14-3 ft high; branches broadly sulcate, densely tomen 
