Croton. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEZ (HUTCHINSON). 767 
24 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, shortly ciliate in the upper half, a few 
stellate hairs down the middle on the outside. Petals absent. Disk 
fleshy and crenulate, glabrous. Ovary globose, densely white-tomen- 
tose; styles 3, deeply bilobed, the lobes again bipartite to near the 
base, segments linear, fleshy, slightly wrinkled. Fruit apparently 
indehiscent, ellipsoid, not lobed, 1} in. long, a little over 3 in. in diam., 
shortly stellate-puberulous or glabrous. Seeds large, oblong-ellipsoid, 
truncate at each end, 10 lin. long, 7 lin. broad; testa light brown with 
grey spots, dull. 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Lupata, Kirk! Boruma, 
_ Menyharth, 795! Lower Umswirizwi River, Swynnerton, 153! British Central 
Africa: Nyasaland; Zomba, Purves, 182! Chiromo, Scott-Elliot, 2805! Rhodesia: 
Sabi River, Swynnerton, 1123! 1125! ‘ 
29. C. barotsensis, Gibbs in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 469. A 
tree 25-30 ft. high; branches stellate-pubescent ; young branchlets 
rather stout, stellate-tomentose with light yellow hairs; internodes 
#-1} in. long. Leaves ovate, more or less gradually acuminate to an 
obtuse apex, rounded at the base, 3-54 in. long, 14-34 in. broad, 
unequally and obtusely serrate, subchartaceous, light green, steilate- 
pubescent above, at length glabrous, greyish, stellate-tomentose below ; 
lateral nerves 7-9 on each side, much-branched ; petiole 3-1 in. long, 
tomentose ; stipules linear, 24 lin. long, pubescent, at length glabrous, 
deciduous. Flowers moneecious, racemose or subspicate, the lower half 
or lowermost third of the inflorescence female, the upper part male; 
inflorescence 44-5 in. long; axis tomentose; bracts similar to the 
stipules; pedicels short, those of the males slightly longer than the 
females. Male flowers: Sepals 5, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 14 lin. 
long, 3 lin. broad, yellow-pubescent outside. Petals 5, oblong, equal to 
the sepals, rather densely pubescent within. Stamens 16-18 ; filaments 
glabrous; anthers oblong-ellipsoid, $ lin. long. Receptacle villous. 
Female flowers: Sepals 6, lanceolate, subacute, 1} lin. long, pubescent 
outside, subglabrous within. Petals absent. Disk annular, small, 
densely pilose. Ovary ovoid-globose, yellow-tomentose; styles 3, 
Spreading, bilobed almost to the base, glabrous; segments linear, sub- 
terete, 14 lin. long. 
, Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Rhodesia; islands and banks of 
river at Victoria Falls, Miss Gibbs, 109! Allen, 175! 416! Galpin, 7049! 
30. C. leuconeurus, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv.533. A tree 15-20 
ft. high ; young branchlets slightly sulcate, stellate-pubescent, at length 
glabrous. Leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, rather shortly and gradually 
acuminate, rounded at the base, 2-54 in. long, 1-3 in. broad, thinly 
chartaceous or membranous, shortly crenate-serrate, with a shortly 
Stipitate coriaceous gland in the sinus of each tooth, thinly stellate- 
pubescent above when young, densely so below, at length becoming 
quite glabrous ; lateral nerves 7-8 on each side, conspicuous on both 
surfaces, branching freely well within the margin; glands at the base 
of the leaf shortly stalked, coriaceous, cupular at the apex ; petiole 3-1} 
