Cluytia. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON). 807 
slender, ? lin. long; free part of filaments slightly reflexed, } lin. 
long. Rudimentary ovary cylindric, truncate, } lin. long, glabrous. 
Female flowers solitary or subsolitary, axillary; pedicel very slender, 
6-7 lin, long, glabrous. Sepals narrowly oblong, rounded at the apex, 
1} lin, long, scarcely $ lin. broad, membranous, glabrous on both 
sides, with a large bilobed scale within the base. Petals spathulate, 
obtuse, as long as the sepals, glabrous. Ovary glabrous; styles short. 
Fruits 24 lin. in diam., pustulate. Seeds smooth, very dark brown. 
—C. richardiana, var. pedicellaris, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 5381. 0. 
abyssinica, var. pedicellaris, Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Cluytiex, 
57, partly. C. abyssinica. var. deserticola, Volkens ex Pax, l.c. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Kilema, d/laud,119! 
Marangu, /% olkens, 2240! East Africa, without locality, Taylor! 
The specimen of Volkens, 2240, at Kew is ¢, that at the British Museum 2. 
10. C. abyssinica, Jaub. & Spach, Ill. Pl. Orient. v.77, ¢. 468. A 
shrub about 10 ft. high; branches glabrous or very thinly pubescent. 
Leaves lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, mostly obtuse, gradually nar- 
rowed to the base, 1-24 in. long, }-1 in. broad, entire, membranous or 
thinly chartaceous, very light green or glaucous when dry, dull and 
glabrous on both surfaces; lateral nerves 7-9 on each side, mostly 
distinct, but not at all prominent; petiole 4-7 lin. long, glabrous ; 
stipules small. Flowers dicecious. Male flowers several in each leaf- 
axil; pedicel slender, about 3 lin. long, glabrous, at length articulated 
about the middle. Sepals obovate, rounded at the apex, cuneate at the 
base, about 1 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, membranous, glabrous on both 
surfaces, with 3 more or less slightly club-shaped glands at the base. 
Petals obovate-spathulate, as long as the sepals, with a solitary orbicular 
fleshy gland within the base of each. Staminal column Z lin. long ; 
free part of filaments 4 lin. long, slightly reflexed ; anthers 4 lin. long. 
Rudimentary ovary truncate, + lin. long, glabrous. Female flowers 
1-3 together, axillary; pedicel about 2 lin. long when in flower, 
attaining 4 in. in fruit, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Sepals and 
petals larger than in the male, the former with 2 glands within the base 
of each, Ovary subglobose, glabrous or very sparingly pubescent ; 
styles soon falling off, spreading and recurved, bilobed. Capsule about 
$ lin. in diam., reticulately wrinkled, glabrous. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, 
1} lin. long, black and shining, minutely pitted; caruncles undulately 
lobed, 3 lin. broad.—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1045. C. lanceo- 
lata, var. glabra, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 2538. C. richardiana ? 
Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 148, not of Mill. Arg. C. glabrescens, 
Knauf in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 340. (. myricoides, Pax, l.c. xxxix. 631. 
- abyssinica, vars. glabra, firma, and calvescens (partly), Pax & K. 
Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Cluytiex, 56, 57. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Ankober, Roth, 7! various localities, Plowden, 
Schimper, 96! 1329! Galla country ; Arussi, Ellenbeck, 1376! Harar, Ellenbeck, 
783! 785! Somaliland: Bidduma, Riva, 1262! Golis Range, Drake-Brockman, 
199! Dara-as, Drake-Brockman, 565! 587! and without precise locality, Dis. 
Lort Phillips! Miss Edith Cole! British East Africa: Mau Plateau, Baker, 93! 
Uganda: various localities, Whyte! Dawe, 26! Brown, 322+ Bagshave, 693 ! 
