Croton. | CXXI, EUPHORBIACE# (HUTCHINSON). 771. 
Seeds dark brown, convex on the back, shining, nearly 2 lin. long.— 
CO. Dinklagei, Pax & K. Hoffm. in Engl. Jahrb. xlv. 237. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea: Sangora district ; Farana, woods along the 
banks of the Niger, Scott-Hiliot, 5379! 5380! Liberia: Webba, on the Cavally 
River, Dinklage, 2664! 
36. C. congensis, De Wild. Ktudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, 
ii, 276.. A tree; branches glabrous, more or less longitudinally 
suleate. Leaves ovate-elliptic, obtusely and gradually acuminate, 
cuneate or subacute at the base, 3-5 in. long, about 2} in. broad, 
chartaceous, crenulate, quite glabrous on both surfaces, with two 
Opposite stipitate glands at the base; lateral nerves 7-8 on each side, 
oblique ; petiole 1-2 in. long, at length glabrous. Flowers monecious. 
Racemes terminal, about 8 in. long; axis angular, tomentellous; 
female flowers together with a few males in the lower, the males 
fasciculate in the upper part; bracts very small. Male flowers: 
pedicel 24 lin. long. Sepals 5, ovate, 1 lin. long, pubescent. Stamens 
15-16; filaments glabrous, 14 lin. long. Receptacle tomentose. 
Female flowers shortly pedicellate ; pedicel tomentose, 1 lin. long. 
Sepals 5, oblong, 1 lin. long. Petals absent. Disk thin. Ovary 
densely tomentose; styles spreading, deeply bilobed, glabrous. Fruits 
not known. 
South Central? Belgian Congo: without precise locality, Ducoffre ! 
37. C. sylvaticus, Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 82. A shrub; branches 
Sulcate, glabrous; young flowering branchlets rusty stellate-puberulous. 
Leaves ovate, subcaudate-acuminate, rounded and biglandular at the 
base, 14-23 in. long, 1-14 in. broad, serrulate, thinly chartaceous, 
glabrous on both surfaces or with a few stellate hairs below when young ; 
lateral nerves about 4 on each side, slender, slightly raised on both sur- 
faces, the lower much branched towards the margin ; cross nerves very 
faint and lax; petiole slender, 1-1} in. long, shortly stellate-pubescent ; 
Stipules small, soon falling. Flowers monecious. Racemes terminal, 
up to 6 in. long, with numerous male flowers and a few females scattered 
amongst them ; axis sulcate, rather densely stellate-tomentellous ; bracts 
subulate-lanceolate, 3 lin. long. Male flowers: pedicel 1-1} lin. long, 
tomentellous. Sepals 5, narrowly lanceolate, obtuse, 1 lin. long, } lin. 
broad, submembranous, thinly stellate-pubescent outside. Petals 5, 
narrowly oblong, as long as the sepals, 4 lin. broad, glabrous outside, 
white-villous on the margin and within the apex. Disk-glands small. 
Stamens about 20; filaments very slender, 1 lin. long, glabrous; anthers 
lin. long. Receptacle white-villous. Female flowers shortly pedicel- 
te. Sepals similar to those of the male but not.so membranous. 
Petals rudimentary. Disk deeply 5-lobed, glabrous. Ovary tomentose ; 
styles bilobed to the base ; segments linear, entire, 1? lin. long, glabrous. 
Fruit subglobose, 44 lin. in diam., shortly stellate-pubescent.—Miill. Arg. 
'n DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 602; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 195. C. 
Stuklmanni, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 80. 
Wile Land. Uganda: Sesse Islands in Lake Victoria, Stuhlmann, 1210! 
