774 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON). | Croton. 
subentire, glabrous. Ovary subglobose, stellate-tomentose ; styles sub- 
erect, deeply bilobed, thinly pubescent in the lower part. Fruits not 
seen.— Mill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 602; Hiern in Cat. Afr. 
<i Welw. i. 971; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: near Kisantu, Gillet, 2012. Angola: Pungo 
Andongo; Mata de Pungo, Welwitsch, 392 ! between Sermongo and Lifuni River, 
Gossweiler, 4914! Huilla; Chella, Antunes, 780 ! 
41. ©. schimperianus, Miill. Arg. in Linnea, xxxiv. 82. 
Branchlets subterete, covered with fringed scales when young, at 
length glabrous. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, shortly and obtusely 
acuminate, truncate, rounded or subcordate at the base, 14-34 in. long, 
3-1 in. broad, minutely crenulate or denticulate, thinly and rigidly 
chartaceous, stellate-pubescent on both surfaces when quite young, 
very soon almost glabrous ; lateral nerves 5-6 on each side, prominent 
below, much-branched and becoming faint well within the margin; 
veins rather lax, distinct. but not raised below, invisible above ; petiole 
3-3 in. long, more or less covered with stellate hairs; stipules small 
and deciduous. Flowers monecious. Racemes terminal, short, about 
1 in. long; axis slightly angular, tomentellous; bracts 1-flowered, 
linear, 1 lin. long, densely pubescent. Male flowers about 6 in the 
upper part of the inflorescence : pedicel 1} lin. long. Sepals 5, ovate, 
stellate-pubescent outside, glabrous within, about 1} lin. long. P etals 
5, Obovate-elliptic, rounded at the apex, glabrous outside, sparingly 
pilose within, especially towards the base, ciliate. Disk-glands almost 
contiguous, glabrous. Stamens about 15; filaments glabrous. Recep- 
tacle pilose. Female flowers 3-4 at the base of the inflorescence - 
pedicel stout, nearly 2 lin. long. Sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, shortly stellate-pubescent outside, nearly 
glabrous within. Petals absent. Disk fleshy, saucer-shaped, egenivien 
Ovary covered with flat stellate many-rayed hairs; styles pee 
nearly to the base, segments linear, stellate-pubescent on the back, 
the tips incurved. Capsule subglobose, about 4 lin. in diam., cover 1 
with stellate hairs. Seeds brown, about 2 lin. long, smooth.—Miill, 
Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 528; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v¥- 
App. ii. 305. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: Anderara, Schweinfurth, 91! Abyssinia: mesee 
Goelleb, Schimper, 2140 ! 
42. ©. oxypetalus, Wiili. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 339. A 
tree 15-20 ft. high ; head widely spreading, hemispherical, ea es 
at the top; branchlets subterete, shortly stellate-pubescent. pace 
elliptic or lanceolate, slightly rounded at the base, gradually sete 
‘to a subacute apex, 2-4 in. long, 3-13 in. broad, rather sparse 
serrate, thinly chartaceous or almost membranous, shortly stelle = 
pubescent on both surfaces, at length glabrous above ; lateral ae 
4-6 on each side, ascending, slightly impressed above, phrases? sae 
veins few and inconspicuous; petiole 4-2 in. long, rather sient” 
