768 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON). [ Croton. 
in. long, tomentellous or at length nearly glabrous ; stipules subulate- 
lanceolate, glabrescent, about 14 lin. long, soon falling off. Flowers 
monecious. Racemes terminal, interrupted, up to 7 in. long, a few 
female fowers scattered here and there amongst the males; axis tomen- 
tose ; bracts small, soon falling off. Male flowers: pedicel slender, up 
to 2 lin. long, tomentellous. Sepals 5, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, 14 
lin. long, $ lin. broad, thin, glabrous within, thinly stellate-pubescent 
on the outside. Petals 5, oblanceolate-elliptic, obtuse, 14 lin. long, 3 lin. 
broad, glabrous outside, densely villous on the margin, pubescent inside. 
Disk-glands small and fleshy, glabrous. Stamens about 18 ; filaments 
glabrous. Receptacle pilose. Female flowers: pedicel short and very 
stout, tomentose. Sepals 5, lanceolate, obtuse, 1 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, 
shortly stellate-pubescent. Petals rudimentary, subulate, pilose. Disk 
fleshy, glabrescent. Ovary globose, densely tomentose ; styles recurved- 
spreading, bilobed for two-thirds their length; lobes linear, curled, 
glabrous. Fruits not known.—C. kamerunicus, Pax & K. Hoffm. in 
Engl. Jahrb. xlv. 237. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: swampy places between Bejsu and Berim, 
Ledermann, 2482! 
Nile Land. Mittu; Mvolo, Schweinfurth, 2831! 
31. C. Pynzertii, De Wild. Ftudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, iii. 
220. A shrub; branches glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate or ovate- 
elliptic, shortly and obtusely acuminate, 23-5 in. long, 14-3 in. broad, 
chartaceous, remotely serrate or undulately serrulate, shining and 
glabrous on both surfaces, paler below, biglandular at the base ; petiole 
1}-13 in. long, glabrous; stipules small and deciduous. Flowers 
moncecious. Racemes terminal, pedunculate, 10 in. long ; male flowers 
numerous and clustered, pedicellate, females solitary in the middle of 
each male cluster. Male flowers: pedice) about 1 lin. long, slender, 
puberulous. Sepals ovate, obtuse, 1 lin. long, glabrous outside, with a 
tuft of hairs at the apex. Petals about the same size, densely woolly- 
ciliate, but otherwise glabrous outside. Stamens 10-12; filaments 
glabrous; anthers } lin. long. Receptacle villous. Female flowers: 
pedicel 4-1 lin. long, pubescent. Sepals narrowly oblong, obtuse, 
nearly glabrous except at the tips. Petals absent. Disk rather thin, 
5-lobed, glabrous. Ovary stellate-tomentellous ; styles connate 1n the 
lower half, bilobed, glabrous ; branches recurved. Fruits broadly ellip- 
soid, about 3 lin. long, 24-3 lin. in diam., minutely and very sparingly 
stellate-pubescent, tipped by the persistent styles. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Bangala district ; Bumba, Pynaert, 93! 
Seret, 14! 
32. C. pyrifolius, Will. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 338. A tree 
20 ft. high; trunk 1/4 ft. in diam. at the base; branchlets sulcate, 
stellate-puberulous when young. Leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, shortly 
acuminate, rounded and biglandular at the base, 34-54 in. long, 1j-3 
in. broad, thinly and rigidly chartaceous, closely crenate, glabrous above, 
with very few short scattered stellate hairs below, at length quite 
