Croton. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEZ (HUTCHINSON). 757 
axis shortly stellate-tomentellous, slightly compressed; bracts small, 
triangular; pedicels ? lin. long, tomentellous. Sepals 5, reflexed, 
oblong, obtuse, glabrous within, pubescent outside, about 3 lin. long. 
Petals absent. Disk saucer-shaped, entire, rather thin but fleshy, 
quite glabrous. Ovary subglobose, villous or subsetose; styles 
spreading, deeply bilobed, lobes linear, slightly pubescent outside. 
Ripe fruit not seen.— Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 598; Pax in 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 237; Oliv. in Trans, Linn. Soc. xxix. 145. 
Nile Land. Uganda: low moist ground of Madi, Speke & Grant, 706! 
12. C. pseudopulchellus, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 371. A 
shrub 6-12 ft. high; branchlets slender, twiggy, covered with rust- 
coloured scales when young. Leaves fragrant, subverticillate, lanceolate 
or elliptic-lanceolate, more or less narrowed to an obtuse or slightly 
emarginate apex, obtuse or subacute at the base, 4-3 inches long, }-14 
in. broad, rigidly chartaceous, entire, mostly very dark brown and 
always glabrous above when dry, covered below with silvery scales with 
yellow centres; lateral nerves 9-12 on each side, slightly raised above, 
not visible or only a little raised below; glands at the base absent; 
petiole up to 1 in. long, scaly; stipules minute. Flowers monecious. 
Racemes very much abbreviated, giving the flowers a clustered appear- 
ance at the apex of each shoot. Male flowers: pedicel about 2 lin. 
long at the opening of the flower. Sepals ovate, 1 lin. long, lin. 
broad, coriaceous, covered on the outside with numerous large over- 
lapping orbicular scales, glabrous within except towards the puberulous 
margin. Petals oblong-lanceolate, rounded at the apex, 1} lin. long, 
3 lin. broad, submembranous, glabrous on both sides, margin villous. 
Disk-glands very small. Stamens 15-18; filaments flattened below, 
Sparingly pilose in the lower half. Receptacle pubescent. Female 
flowers: Sepals as in the males. Petals oblanceolate, as long as the 
Sepals. Disk very thin, glabrous. Ovary densely covered with nume- 
rous large overlapping scales; styles bipartite to near the base ; seg- 
ments subterete, glabrous. Capsule trilobed, } in. long, covered with 
numerous overlapping scales. Seeds ellipsoid, brown, 4 in. long, } in. 
broad.—C. pulchellus, Mill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 572, partly, excl. 
Madagascar spec. and syn. Klotzsch, not of Baill. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Banos, Riva, 1486! British East Africa: Samburu, 
Scott-Elliot, 6133! between Mombasa and Lamu, Whyte ! between Ribe and the 
Galla country, Wakefield ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Bojer! Stuhimann, 599! ~German East Africa: 
between Kipambui and Uwenji, Fischer, 526! Usambara; Masheua, Holst, 3581! 
Bagamoyo, Stuhlmann, 127! Buru, Engler, 1907! and without precise locality, 
Hildebrandt, 1296! Portuguese East Africa: above Tete, Kirk ! Tete, Kirk! 
13. C. amabilis, Will. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 537. A small 
Straight-growing tree; branchlets sulcate, grey, scaly. Leaves oblong- 
lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, shortly, gradually and rather acutely 
acuminate, rounded at the base, 14-6 in. long, 4-2} in. broad, entire, 
rigidly chartaceous, scaly and silvery-grey below, glabrous and dull 
