762 ' CXXII. EUPHORBIACEX (HUTCHINSON). [Croton. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Cataract district, without collector’s name 
in Brussels Herbarium. Angola: Ambriz, Welwitsch, 343! Monteiro! Cazengo, 
Welwitsch, 347! Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 345! 347B! 
19. C. jatrophoides, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 79. A tree or 
possibly a shrub; branches whitish stellate-pubescent when young, 
soon becoming glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate, acutely cordate-acumi- 
nate, cordate at the base, 24-4 in. long, 2-34 in. broad, shortly 5-lobed 
or coarsely 5-toothed, chartaceous, shortly stellate-pubescent when 
young, at length glabrous but slightly roughened with the persistent 
bases of the hairs, permanently densely white-pubescent below, digi- 
tately 5-nerved from the base, remaining lateral nerves 3-4 on each 
side, all prominent below ; transverse nerves very few; petiole 1-2}in. 
long, pubescent ; stipules filiform, 4 lin. long, thinly stellate-pubescent. 
Flowers apparently dicecious. Male racemes terminal, many-flowered, 
up to 7 in. long; axis densely pubescent with white hairs; bracts 
small; pedicels 2-2} lin. long, pubescent. Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, 
obtuse, 14 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, pubescent. Petals obovate-oblanceo- 
late, very similar to the sepals, margins villous. Disk-glands subulate, 
fleshy, glabrous. Stamens 15-16; filaments glabrous. Receptacle 
villous. Female flowers not known. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Amani; on the Pangani River at 
Friedrich Hoffmann’s Plantation, Braun, 1516! 
20. ©. megalobotrys, Mill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 537. A tree 
20-30 ft. high; trunk 5-6 ft. in circumference; branches subterete, 
with numerous light-coloured lenticels ; young leafy flowering branchlets 
stellate-pubescent with whitish hairs. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
gradually narrowed or tapered to an acute apex, rounded or truncate 
and biglandular at the base, 14-3 in. long, $14 in. broad, membranous, 
unevenly serrate, glabrous or nearly so above, white-villous below when 
young, at length thinly stellate-pilose ; lateral nerves 5-6 on each side, 
raised on both surfaces; petiole 4-1 in. long, pubescent; stip ul 
subulate-lanceolate, 14-2 lin. long, glabrous. Flowers diwcious, hay 
Male racemes terminating short lateral branchlets, many-flowere f 
1-3 in. long; pedicels up to 8 lin. long, pubescent ; bracts linear, hat 
the length of the pedicels. Sepals 5, elliptic, obtuse, 2 lin. long, 1 lin. 
broad, submembranous, slightly pubescent. Petals 5, lanceolate-ellips™ 
subacute, equal in length to the sepals but a little narrower, shortly 
villous on themargin. Stamens 20-25 ; filaments 1} lin. long ; ce 
oblong-ellipsoid, 3 lin. long. Receptacle densely villous. Female 
flowers not known. Fruit the size of a walnut (McCabe).—Mill. E 
in DC. Prodr. xv. ii, 598; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. Q...23875 Ncw 
Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 140. . 
Mozamb. Distr. Ngamiland: banks of the Tamalakane River, McCabe ™ 
Herb, Atherstone, 17! 39! Lake River, Lugard, 17! 
21. C. Seineri, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xiii. 78. A shrub me 
15 ft. high ; branchlets at first stellate-tomentose, at length bole 
