Croton. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEA! (HUTCHINSON). 765 
shortly pubescent ; stipules subulate, about 1 lin. long. Flowers mone- 
cious. Racemes axillary and terminal, up to 4} in. long, few-flowered, 
one or two females towards the base, the remainder males; axis some- 
what compressed, rusty stellate-puberulous; bracts lanceolate, obtuse, 
glabrescent. Male flowers: pedicel 14 lin. long, rusty-pubescent. Sepals 
ovate-elliptic, obtuse, 1 lin. long, } lin. broad, slightly membranous at 
the margin, shortly ciliate in the upper part, slightly stellate-pubescent 
near the base on the outside. Petals 5, lanceolate-elliptic, subacute, as 
long as the sepals, glabrescent outside, white-villous on the inside and 
margin, Disk-glands fleshy. Stamens 10-12; filaments glabrous. Re- 
ceptacle white-villous. Female flowers: pedicel stout, 2 lin. long, 
sparingly pubescent. Sepals broadly ovate, obtuse, 14 lin. long and 
broad, coriaceous, nearly glabrous outside. Petals rather unequal, ovate 
to lanceolate, about three-quarters the length of the sepals, glabrous 
outside, long-villous on the margin and within. Disk very small. 
Ovary globose, stellate-pubescent ; styles bipartite nearly to the base,. 
glabrous. Fruits not known. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Kikuya Mountains, near Nairobi, S/uhl- 
mann, 938! Senia, 5000-6000 ft., Battiscombe, 17! 
26. ©. bukobensis, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 77. A tree; 
branches and branchlets glabrous, or with very few scattered stel- 
late hairs. Leaves elliptic or ovate-elliptic, rarely ovate-lanceolate, 
gradually tapered to an acute apex, subcuneate or slightly rounded at 
the base, 34-6 in. long, 14-22 in. broad, membranous rather distantly 
crenate-serrate, glabrous ‘or with extremely few stellate hairs on both 
surfaces, 5-nerved and 2-4-glandular at the base, remaining lateral 
nerves 4-6 on each side, slightly prominent below ; transverse nerves 
very lax and branched, faint; petiole 3-2 in. long, subterete, slightly 
stellate-pubescent or glabrous; stipules very small and fugacious. 
Flowers monecious. Racemes terminal, about 7 in. long, with 
humerous males and fewer females disposed along the shortly stellate- 
pubescent axis; bracts small. Male flowers: pedicel 2 lin. long, 
Scantily puberulous. Sepals 5, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, about 1 lin. 
long, membranous, sparingly pubescent. Petals 5, similar in shape 
and size to the sepals, but more hairy. Disk-glands subulate, large, 
glabrous, Stamens about 12; filaments slender, glabrous. Receptacle 
Pilose. Female flowers subsessile: Sepals as in the male. Petals 
filiform, small, about one-third the length of the sepals, villous. Disk 
obed, glabrous. Ovary ovoid-globose, rusty stellate-tomentellous ; 
styles bipartite ; segments slender, spreading, linear, entire, glabrous. 
rut not known. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Bukoba; Bamgodjo, Holtz, 1649! 
27. C, Gossweileri, Hutchinson. A tree 30-40 ft. high, with 
the habit of a Populus ; branches longitudinally wrinkled or sulcate, 
puberulous ; young flowering branchlets thinly villous with stellate 
irs. Leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, more or less caudate-acuminate, 
acumen mucronate, rounded to a subacute base, 14-3 in. long, 1-2 in. 
