Cluytia.] CXXII, EUPHORBIACES (HUTCHINSON). 805 
broad, yellowish-pilose outside, glabrous and mottled within, with a 
tripartite scale below the middle. Petals obovate, rounded at the apex, 
nearly as long as the sepals, glabrous, each with about 3 minute glands 
‘within the base. Staminal column 4 lin. long; anthers } lin. long. 
Rudimentary ovary subcylindric, with a flat expanded top, glabrous. 
Female flowers not known. 
Mozamb. Distr. Rhodesia: Manika; Inyanga Mountains, 6000-7000 ft., 
Cecil, 181! 
6. C. conferta, Hutchinson. An undershrub 2-3 ft, high; stem 
and branches rough with the scars of the previous season’s leaves, 
angular, glabrous or very thinly pubescent between the angles; lateral 
branches elongated, simple, up to 8 in. long, leafy at the apex. Leaves 
crowded, subsessile, oblong, emarginate, slightly narrowed to an obtuse 
‘base, 4—6 lin. long, 2-3 lin. broad, entire, rigidly subcoriaceous, glabrous 
and indistinctly veined on both surfaces; stipules minute. Flowers 
Monecious. Male flowers axillary, solitary or in pairs; pedicel glabrous, 
up to 1 lin. long. Sepals obovate, minutely tridentate or entire, 1 lin. 
long, 4 lin. broad, membranous, glabrous on both surfaces. Petals 
like the sepals, but a little narrower towards the base. Glands in the 
bottom of the calyx about 10 in a single ring, very small and rounded. 
Filaments connate for two-thirds of their length; anthers +} lin. long. 
Rudimentary ovary cylindric, entire, glabrous, } lin. long. Young 
female flowers not seen. Sepals and petals in the fruiting stage 
glabrous, the former 3-glandular near the base. Capsule about 2 line 
in diam., glabrous, slightly wrinkled. Seeds not seen. 
Mozamb. Distr. Nyasaland: Tuchila Plateau, 7000 ft., Purves, 100! 
Avery distinct species, and easily recognised amongst those from Tropical Africa 
by its small crowded emarginate leaves and moneecious flowers. 
_ 4. ©. kamerunica, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xlv. 238. A shrub 3-5 ft. 
high ; young branchlets densely woolly-tomentose with light yellow 
hairs. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, subacute, narrowed to the base, 
24-5 in. long, 4-1 in. broad, firmly membranous, pubescent only on the 
nerves above, rather densely so with crisped hairs below ; lateral nerves 
11-15 on each side, distinct below, looped and branched just within the 
margin; petiole }-3 lin. long, tomentose. Flowers monecious, several 
males and one or two females in each leaf-axil. Male pedicel short, 
articulated in the middle, pubescent. Sepals obovate-elliptic, rounded 
at the apex, 1 lin, long, slightly pubescent in the lower half, glabrous 
above, with a tripartite scale inside towards the base. Petals spathulate- 
oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, as long as the sepals, glabrous, with 
4 Solitary rounded gland within the base. Filaments connate for two- 
thirds of their length; anthers rounded. Rudimentary ovary cylindric, 
expanded and flat at the apex, glabrous. Female flowers: pedicel at- 
taining 4 in. long when in fruit, tomentose. Sepals oblong, rounded at 
the apex, 1} lin. long, pubescent in the lower two-thirds outside, with a 
bilobed scale at the base inside. Petals obovate-spathulate, 1} lin. long, 
glabrous, with a small scale at the base. Ovary pubescent between the 
