770 CXXIE, EUPHORBIACEZ (HUTCHINSON). [ Croton. 
or crenate-serrate, thinly and rigidly chartaceous, glabrous and dull on 
both surfaces ; lateral nerves 7-9 on each side, slender, looped towards 
the margin, distinct but not prominent on both surfaces; petiole 
1-4 lin. long, stellate-puberulous; glands at the base of the leaf 
stipitate, funnel-shaped, coriaceous, glabrous; stipules small, deciduous. 
Flowers monecious. Racemes terminal or terminating lateral branch- 
lets, up to 24 in. long, the male flowers few at the top, the females 
more numerous in the lower part; axis angular, very sparingly stellate- 
puberulous; bracts ovate, 4 lin. long, pubescent. Male pedicel 1 lin. 
long, nearly glabrous: Sepals 5, ovate-oblong, ? lin. long, densely 
ciliate at the apex. Petals 5, linear-spathulate, ? lin. long, villous 
towards the apex. Stamens 11; filaments glabrous, Receptacle 
pilose. Female flowers subsessile: Sepals 5, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 
nearly 1 lin. long, with a tuft of hairs at the apex, very sparingly 
stellate-pubescent outside. Petals absent. Disk thick and fleshy, 
very slightly 5-lobed, glabrous, lobes oblong and not apiculate. 
Ovary stellate-tomentose; styles 3, spreading, bilobed to slightly 
below the middle, lobes linear, terete, glabrous, about % lin. long. 
Capsule slightly trilobed, about 24 lin. in diam., stellate-puberulous 
but not scaly. Seeds nearly 2 lin. long, with a dull smooth light 
yellow testa. 
Upper Guinea. Ivory Coast: banks of the Cavally River at Prolo, Chevalier, 
19861! 
35. C. nigritanum, Scott-Elliot in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 97. 
An undershrub; branches subterete, covered with a grey bark, 
becoming glabrous; young flowering branchlets short, sparingly rusty- 
puberulous. Leaves elliptic or lanceolate-elliptic, obtuse or slightly 
acuminate, slightly narrowed to, but obtuse at the base, 1-3 in. long, 
4-1} in. broad, obtusely and shortly serrate, membranous or thinly 
chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces except for a few scattered 
stellate hairs on the nerves below; lateral nerves 5-7 on each side of 
the midrib, slender, looped towards the margin, distinct but not pro- 
minent on both surfaces ; petiole 1-6 lin. long, puberulous; glands at 
the apex subsessile, coriaceous, glabrous; stipules lanceolate-subulate, 
1 lin. long, rusty-tomentose. Flowers diccious or submonecious. 
Male racemes terminating short lateral branchlets, slender, few- 
flowered, sometimes a few females towards the base, up to 24 in. long ; 
axis very sparingly puberulous; bracts 1-2-flowered, subulate, } lin. 
long, slightly pubescent; pedicel slender, up to 2 lin. long, nearly 
glabrous. Sepals 5, ovate, obtuse, # lin. long, 3 lin. broad, stellate- 
pubescent outside, glabrous within. Petals 5, spathulate, as long as the 
sepals, densely ciliate at the apex. Stamens 10; filaments glabrous. 
Receptacle densely pilose. Female racemes similar to the male but 
stouter and angular; bracts 1-flowered, as long as the pedicels ; pedicel 
stout, j lin. long. Sepals 5, oblong, obtuse, stellate-pubescent ue’ 
Petals very rudimentary. Disk not present. Ovary globose, shortly 
setulose ; styles bilobed, at length spreading, lobes linear, glabrous. 
Capsule about 24 lin, in diam., covered with yellow orbicular scales. 
