760 CXXIIl. EUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON). | Croton. 
Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 276, ii. 277; Th. & Hél. Durand, 
Syll. Fl. Congo. 481. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Kisantu, Gillet. Angola: Golungo Alto; 
Sobato de Bumba, Welwitsch, 348! Mulange district, Gossweiler, 966! Cazengo, 
Gossweiler, 4507! 4790! 4791! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Kwango district; Boala, Lescrauwaet ; 
Kasai district; Kanda-Kanda, Gentil; lLusambo, Laurent; Kitebwa, Gentil, 
Sapin ! 
16. C. megalocarpus, Hutchinson. A tree 70-80 ft. high; 
branchlets tomentellous with stellate hairs or scaly. Leaves oblong- 
lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, shortly and subacutely acuminate, rounded 
and often subcordate at the base, 14-5 in. long, $-3 in, broad, rigidly 
chartaceous, margin entire or slightly undulate, minutely stellate- 
puberulous and dark-coloured above, lighter coloured and densely 
covered with small scales below; lateral nerves spreading, 16-20 on 
each side, slender, often nearly invisible above, slightly raised below, 
gradually fading towards the margin; veins not evident; petiole 3-3 in. 
long, stellate-tomentose or covered with scales ; stipules linear, 4 lin, 
long, terete, stellate-tomentellous. Flowers monecious. Racemes up 
to 10 in. long, many-flowered, a few females towards the base, the 
remainder males; axis angular, slightly flexuous, densely scaly and 
often stellate-pubescent; bracts small and caducous. Male flowers : 
pedicel 1-4 in. long, angular, covered with scales. Sepals 5, ovate- 
triangular, obtuse, 2 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, densely scaly outside, 
shortly pubescent within, with a tuft of hairs at the apex. Petals 
obovate-oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, 24 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, 
covered with fringed scales on the back, villous on the margin and on 
the inner side. Disk-glands fleshy, glabrous. Stamens 29 ; filaments 
rather slender, thinly pilose in the lower part; anthers { lin. long. 
Receptacle pilose. Female flowers: pedicel stout. Sepals as 7 the 
male, but without the tuft of hairs at the apex. Petals linear, 23 jin. 
long, scaly on the back, villous within and on the margin. Disk 
minute. Ovary densely covered with fringed scales ; styles spreading, 
bipartite, segments again divided once or twice, pubescent on = 
back. Capsule ellipsoid, 11-1} in. long; exocarp crustaceous, ner 
covered with scales; endocarp hard, nearly 2 lin. thick. sg 8 
narrowly ellipsoid, with a small apiculus at one end, 1 in. long, Oe 
broad, faintly ribbed and slightly wrinkled on the back.—C. elliottianus, 
Pax & Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 289, not C’. elliotianus, Baill. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Nairobi, Elliott, 51! Battincomnts ia 
Kibwezi, Scheffler, 172! Masailand, Hollis / Uganda: Mabira Forest, Dawe, 
Ussher, 4! Toro, Dawe, 498 ! 
17. C. oligandrum, Pierre MSS. A tree 30-50 ft. pe. 
branchlets sulcate or angular, closely beset with small brown Shae 
Leaves oblong-elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, subcaudate and Sc q 
acutely acuminate, rounded at the base, 14-44 in. long, re te nlous 
thinly and rigidly chartaceous, entire, minutely stellate-pubert ® 
and darker coloured above, lighter and densely covered with § 
