Croton. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEE (HUTCHINSON). 761 
seales below ; lateral nerves spreading, 12-16 on each side, slender, 
slightly impressed above, slightly prominent below, gradually fading 
and branched towards the margin; veins not evident; glands 2 at the 
base of the leaf, stipitate, coriaceous; petiole 3-24 in. long, rather 
slender, scaly; stipules minute. Flowers monecious. Racemes 
terminal, up to 6 in. long, many-flowered, a few females towards the 
base, the remainder males; axis angular or sulcate, densely covered 
with scales; bracts small and caducous. Male flowers: pedicel 
13-2 lin. long, subterete, covered with silvery scales. Sepals ovate- 
triangular, obtuse, 14 lin. long, 1 lin, broad, coriaceous, densely scaly 
outside, very shortly pubescent within and on the margin. Petals 
elliptic-oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, 1} lin. long, ? lin. broad, 
‘covered -with silvery-white fringed scales on the outside, villous. on 
the margin and within. Disk-glands fleshy, glabrous. Stamens 15 ; 
filaments slender, thinly pilose in the lower half; anthers 2 lin. long. 
Receptacle pilose. Female flowers: pedicel as in the male. Sepals 
lanceolate, 1} lin. long, scaly outside. Petals oblong-linear, scarcely 
1 lin. long, villous. Disk glabrous, fleshy. Ovary densely covered 
with fringed scales; styles 5-6-partite, segments linear, subterete, 
pubescent on the back. Capsule oblong-obovoid, truncate at the top, 
about £ in, long and 4 lin. in diam., covered with scales giving it a 
warted appearance. Seeds oblong, convex on the back, 5 lin, long, 
3 lin. broad, slightly shining and a little wrinkled. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Yaunde, Zenker, 739B ! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Libreville, Klaine, 71! 556! Sibange Farm, 
Soyaur, 3! Spanish Guinea: Tessmann, 832! 
18. ©. Draconopsis, Mill. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 338, A 
tree up to 20 ft. high; branchlets stout, suleate, pubescent. Leaves 
‘broadly ovate, acute or shortly and acutely acuminate, cordate at the 
base, 24-6 in. long, 14-44 in. broad, coarsely and doubly dentate with 
numerous teeth, membranous or thinly chartaceous, thinly stellate- 
pubescent above when young, at length glabrous, softly stellate- 
pubescent below in the mature state, digitately 5-nerved from the base, 
remaining lateral nerves 3-5 on each side, diverging from the midrib 
at an angle of 45°, all prominent below ; transverse nerves rather 
distant, subparallel, distinct below in the older leaves; petiole 1}-34 
in. long, tomentellous ; stipules linear-subulate, 2-3 lin. long, pubescent. 
Owers moneecious. Racemes terminal, many-flowered, 4—6 in. long, 
a few females towards the base, the remainder males, or all males ; 
axis rather stout, stellate-tomentose; bracts very small. Male flowers : 
pedicel slender, 3 lin. long, puberulous. Sepals 5, ovate-oblong, 1} lin. 
long, shortly ciliate. Petals 5, elliptic-oblanceolate, very densely villous 
on the margin, 1} lin. long. Disk-glands fleshy, triangular, bifid, 
glabrous, Stamens 15; filaments very slender, 14 lin. long, glabrous. 
Receptacle villous. Female flowers similar to the male. Ovary 2- 
celled, densely hairy; styles broad, bifid.—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 
XV. ii, 522; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 970; De Wild. Etudes 
Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 277. 
