764 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEX (HUTCHINSON). | Croton. 
remaining lateral nerves 3-5 on each side, looped and branched near the 
margin, all prominent on both surfaces ; tertiary nerves spreading almost 
at right angles from the midrib; petiole 3-1 in. long, very sparingly 
lepidote. Flowers apparently dicecious, the females not known. Male 
racemes terminal, 6 in. long, slender ; axis rusty-lepidote ; pedicels 2 lin. 
long, minutely stellate-puberulous; bracts small, deciduous. Sepals 5, 
subequal, ovate, glabrous except for the ciliate apex, about 1 lin. long. 
Petals 5, obtuse, 1 lin. long, glabrous outside, lanate within. Disk- 
glands 5, subulate. Stamens 10-12; filaments 1} lin. long, glabrous; 
anthers curved, 4 lin. long. Receptacle densely villous.—Stapf in 
Johnston, Liberia, ii. 648. 
Upper Guinea. Liberia: Monrovia, Whyte! 
24. C. Poggei, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 534. A tree; branches 
scurfy-puberulous, slightly angular when young. Leaves ovate, more or 
less gradually acuminate, acumen slightly mucronate, rounded or sub- 
cordate at the base, with 2 small glands, 13—3 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, 
chartaceous, denticulate, glabrous, shining and somewhat black on the 
upper surface, permanently grey stellate-tomentellous below, 5-nerved 
from the base, remaining Jateral nerves about 3 on each side, all very 
prominent on the lower surface; transverse nerves very lax; petiole 
1-1} in. long, suleate or slightly angular, tomentellous with very short 
hairs; stipules very small. Flowers monecious. Racemes terminal, with 
numerous males and several females disposed together along the axis; 
axis angular, densely scurfy-tomentellous ; bracts subulate, about 1 a 
long, puberulous. -Male flowers: pedicel 1} lin. long, stellate-tomen- 
tellous. Sepals 5, ovate-oblong, obtuse, subcoriaceous, 1} lin. long; 
§ lin. broad, very sparingly stellate-puberulous outside, glabrous within. 
Petals 5, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, 1} lin. long, % lin. broad, glabrous Hira 
side, hirsute on the margin and within the apex. Stamens about 193 
filaments glabrous. Receptacle pilose. Female flowers nearly sessile. 
Sepals ovate-triangular, subacute, about 1 lin. long and j lin. broad, 
coriaceous, sparingly stellate-puberulous outside, glabrous within. Petals 
5, linear-lanceolate, as long as the sepals, with densely villous margins. 
Disk 5-lobed, nearly glabrous. Ovary globose, densely tomentellous; 
styles spreading over the top of the ovary, bipartite; segments iest, 
entire, about 3 lin. long, glabrous. Immature fruit subglobose, rusty- 
tomentellous.—Durand & Schinz, Etudes FI. Congo, 244. 
eee Central. Belgian Congo: Bashilange district; Mukenge, Pogges 
_ 25. C. alienus, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xiii. 80. A tree of moderate 
size; branches sparingly pubescent with short stellaté hairs when y tip 
at length quite glabrous. Leaves oblong or oblong-elliptic, obtuse at tie 
apex, slightly narrowed, obtuse and with 2 stalked glands at the base, 1} 
24 in. long, 3-14 in. broad, rather rigidly chartaceous, remotely denticu- 
late, quite glabrous and slightly shining on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 
7-8 on each side, spreading, looped well within the margin, prominent 07 
both surfaces ; tertiary nerves lax and branched ; petiole 2-3$ lin. long; 
