Croton. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEA (HUTCHINSON). 775 
shortly stellate-pubescent ; stipules linear-subulate, 1} lin. long, 
pubescent. Flowers monecious, subsessile on the axis of the in- 
florescence, the upper third male, the lower two-thirds female, the 
whole 43-5 in. long; axis hirsute with yellow stellate hairs; bracts 
linear, pubescent, 1-2 lin. long. Male flowers: Sepals 5, connate at 
the base, broadly ovate, subacute, $ lin. long, pubescent outside. Petals 
5, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 1 lin. long, villous at the base on both 
sides, otherwise glabrous. Stamens 15; filaments terete, glabrous ; 
anther-cells distinct, one slightly larger than the other. Receptacle 
densely villous. Female flowers: Sepals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 
1} lin, long, stellate-pubescent on the outside. Petals absent. Disk- 
Segments opposite the sepals, ovate-triangular, obtuse, subcoriaceous, 
glabrous. Ovary ovoid, tomentose with yellow hairs; styles 3, bilobed 
to the base; segments linear, glabrous and black towards the apex, 
about 1 lin. long. Young fruits ovoid, rusty tomentellous, 4 lin. long, 
24 lin. in diam.—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 543; Ficalho, PI. 
Uteis, 251; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 971; De Wild. Etudes 
Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 277. 
Lower Guinea. Belgian Congo: Stanley Pool district; Dembo, Gillet, 
2108; between Kisantu and the Kwango, Bittner in Herb. Gillet, 3725; near 
a Lecomte, A,111! Angola: Pungo Andongo; in Mata de Cabondo, Welwitsch, 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Welle district ; between Amadis and Poko, 
Seret, 843; Kasai district ; Lubue, Laurent, 
Imperfectly known species. 
, 48. C. Verdickii, De Wild. Hiudes I. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, 
i. 277, A large tree; branchlets glabrous. Leaves elliptic, pointed 
at both ends, obtuse, 3-34 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, thinly chartaceous, 
glabrous and dull on both surfaces; lateral nerves about 5 on each 
side, ascending, prominent below ; secondary nerves subparallel, distinct 
below ; petiole biglandular at the apex, $-1} in. long, with a puberulous 
groove on the upper side, otherwise glabrous; stipules obliquely 
lanceolate, 1} lin. long, glabrous, membranous. Male and female 
Owers not known, but flowers probably monecious. Fruiting racemes 
terminal; pedicel stout, 11 lin. long, tomentose. Sepals lanceolate, 
thinly pubescent or nearly glabrous. Fruits ellipsoid or ovoid, 3-4 lin. 
long, about 24 lin. in diam., densely yellowish-tomentellous. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Katanga; Lukafu, Verdick, 298! 
Described from imperfect fruiting material. 
39. JATROPHA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f, Gen. PI. iii. 290. 
Flowers moneecious, rarely diecious. Petals usually present. Male 
flowers: Sepals 5, imbricate, often slightly connate. Petals 5, mostly 
Imbricate, connate into a 5-lobed tube or free, rarely absent. Disk 
entire or more often divided into 5 glands. Stamens 8 (in the African 
Species), in two series; filaments partially connate, the 5 outer opposite 
