Croton. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEA (HUTCHINSON). 763 
or nearly glabrous. Leaves ovate or ovate-elliptic, shortly and obtusely 
acuminate, rounded at the base, 14-34 in. long, 1}-2} in. broad, irre- 
gularly crenate-serrate, chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, glabrous or 
with very few stellate hairs on the upper surface, at first softly tomen- 
tose below, at length becoming thinly pubescent; lateral nerves 6-9 
on each side, looped, prominent below; tertiary nerves lax; petiole 
#-1} in. long, thinly stellate-tomentose; glands 2 at the base of the 
leaf, stipitate, cupular ; stipules linear-oblong, subacute, 2-3 lin. long, 
with a few stellate hairs. Flowers dicecious. Male racemes terminal, 
dense-flowered, pedunculate, up to 3 in. long, yellow-tomentose ; bracts 
narrowly lanceolate, acute, 1 lin. long, pubescent; pedicels 1-2 lin. 
long, slender, tomentose. Sepals 5, obovate, obtuse, 1? lin. long, 1 lin. 
broad, stellate-pubescent outside, thinly adpressed-villous within. 
Petals oblong, rounded at the apex, 1} lin. long, 3 lin. broad, glabrous 
inside, thinly villous on the outside, with dense villous fringe around 
the margin. Stamens about 16; filaments 14 lin. long, glabrous ; 
anthers 4 lin. long. Receptacle densely villous with weak white hairs. 
Female flowers not known. 
Mozamb. Distr. Rhodesia: forest near Old Livingstone, 6 miles above the 
Victoria Falls, Seiner, 18 ! (not 15 as quoted by Pax). 
22. C. asperifolius, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii.79. A small tree; 
young branchlets suleate, yellow-pubescent with short stellate hairs, the 
older ones terete and quite glabrous. Leaves elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 
gradually and somewhat acutely acuminate, obtuse or rounded and with 
2 subsessile glands at the base, 34-5 in. long, 21-3} in. broad, rigidly sub- 
- chartaceous, denticulate, quite glabrous above from the beginning, at 
first shortly stellate-pubescent, at length nearly glabrous below, 5-nerved 
at the base, remaining lateral nerves 5~7 on each side, very prominent 
below, slightly sunken above; tertiary nerves very jax, prominent 
elow ; petiole 1}-13? in. long, subterete, minutely puberulous or glab- 
Tous ; stipules small, deciduous. Flowers probably dicecious, but neither 
Sex seen. Female racemes in fruit about 4} in. long; axis angular, 
puberulous ; pedicels stout, 1} lin. long. Sepals triangular, coriaceous, 
about 14 lin. long, subacute, stellate-pubescent. Disk 5-lobed ; lobes 
triangular, acute, glabrous. Fruit ellipsoid, subacute, 4 lin. long, 3 lin. 
in diam., rusty-tomentellous. Seeds ellipsoid, nearly flat on the inner 
Pines outside, light brown, nearly smooth, 3 lin. long, 2} lin. 
road, 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Kondue ; on the Sankuru River, Leder- 
mann, 5! 
23. C. dispar, V. L. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 113. Branchlets 
Subterete, about 1 lin. thick, minutely and sparingly rusty-lepidote, at 
length glabrous; internodes 3-1 in.long. Leaves broadly elliptic-ovate 
or oblong, obtusely subcuspidate-acuminate, broadly rounded and emar- 
inate or subcordate at the base, 2-3 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, very thinly 
chartaceous, minutely denticulate with glandular teeth, glabrous on both 
surfaces, slightly shining above, trinerved and biglandular at the base, 
