756 CXXII. EUPHORBIACE% (HUTCHINSON). | Croton., 
pubescent on both surfaces, the middle hair often longer than the 
others ; lateral nerves about 5 on each side, very slender and incon- 
spicuous; petiole 2-6 lin. long, pubescent; stipules very small, 
Flowers monecious. Racemes axillary and terminal, few-flowered, 
up to 2 in. long, the lower part female, the upper part male. Male 
flowers: Sepals stellate-pilose. Petals obovate, woolly on the margin 
in the upper part. Stamens 10; filaments glabrous. Receptacle 
pilose. Female flowers: Sepals narrowly lanceolate. Petals rudimen- 
tary or absent. Ovary tomentose; styles bilobed for about one-third 
their length, slender. Capsule ellipsoid.—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 
XV. li, 623. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: near Wuru, Barter, 814! confluence of 
the Niger and Benue, Barter,615! Southern Nigeria: Onitsa, Barter, 574! 
10. ©. madandensis, S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 190. 
A large shrub; branches terete, slender, glabrous, with a few scattered 
lenticels ; young branchlets stellate-pubescent or tomentellous. Leaves 
elliptic or ovate-rotundate, shortly and gradually acuminate, rounded 
and biglandular at the base, 1-24 in. long, $-1} in. broad, membranous, 
entire, rather thinly stellate-pubescent and dull on both surfaces; 
lateral nerves 3-5; petiole 14—4 lin. long, tomentellous ; stipules 
subulate, deciduous. Flowers monecious. Racemes about 14 in. long, 
a few females towards the base, the remainder males. Male flowers: 
pedicel short, tomentose. Sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, densely pubes- 
cent outside. Petals oblong-obovate, obtuse. Stamens about 15; 
filaments puberulous. Receptacle pilose. Female flowers : pedicel 
2-3 lin. long, tomentellous. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 1 lin. long. 
a absent. Ovary subglobose, stellate-pubescent ; style-branches 
short. 
Mozamb. Distr. Gazaland: Madanda forests, 400 ft., Swynnerton, 1408! 
1779! 
11. C. niloticus, Mill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 537. Branches 
sparingly and minutely lepidote ; young flowering branchlets sulcate, 
about 14 lin. thick at the base, lepidote. Leaves of the flowering 
branchlets very broadly ovate or ovate-rhomboid (the youngest 
obliquely ovate), very shortly and obtusely pointed, slightly cordate or 
rounded at the base, 2-44 in. long, 1}—4 in. broad, entire, very 
thinly chartaceous, very sparingly stellate-puberulous above, stellate- 
tomentellous below, digitately 5-nerved from the base, remaining 
Jateral nerves about 5 on each side, diverging from the midrib at - 
angle of 45°, prominent on both surfaces; tertiary nerves parallel, 
about 2 lin. apart, raised below; leaves of the older branchlets ter 
large, deeply cordate at the base, about 1 ft. long and broad, digitate y 
7-nerved at the base; petiole of the smaller leaves 1-1} 1. long, 
terete, about 1 lin. thick, stellate-puberulous, of the larger leaves a 
6 in. long, 8 lin. thick, closely sulcate, glabrous; stipules subu a 
14 lin. long, tomentellous. Flowers apparently diccious, the te : 
not known. Female racemes axillary and terminal, about 34 in. long; 
