Cluytia. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEX (HUTCHINSON). 813 
axillary clusters : pedicels short, articulated towards the base, pubescent. 
Sepals obovate, rounded at the apex, membranous, pubescent outside, 
with a 5-fid scale at the base within. Petals similar to the sepals, but 
glabrous. Glands in the bottom of the flower 12-14. Rudimentary 
ovary slightly obconic, truncate, glabrous. Female flowers not known. 
—Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Cluytiee, 63. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: meadow region on the Ossirvalager, 
Uhlig, 378! 
42, ALEURITES, Forst.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 292. 
Flowers moneecious or subdicecious. Petals present. Male flowers: 
Calyx globose and closed in bud, opening valvately into 2-3 lobes. 
Petals 5, longer than the calyx. Stamens 8-20, inserted on a conical 
receptacle, the 5 exterior opposite the petals and alternating with small 
glands ; filaments free or partially connate, short or elongated ; anthers 
erect; cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary 
absent. Female flowers: Perianth as in the male. Disk inconspicuous 
or consisting of minute glands alternating with the petals. Ovary 
2-5-celled ; styles usually divided into 2 thick branches; ovules solitary 
in each cell. Fruit large, drupaceous, indehiscent ; exocarp fleshy ; 
endocarp crustaceous or woody, 2-5-celled or 1-celled by abortion. 
Seeds with a thick woody testa; albumen thick, hard; embryo 
straight ; cotyledons broad and flat.—Trees with stellate or subsimple 
hairs. Leaves alternate, long-petiolate, large, 5-7-nerved from the base, 
entire or lobed ; petiole biglandular at the apex. Flowers in lax cymes ; 
cymes crowded at the apices of the branchlets. 
Species 4, natives of Eastern Asia and the Pacific Islands, the following two 
cultivated in Tropical Africa. 
Leaves pubescent with adpressed simple hairs when young, when 
lobed then with a large sessile gland at the base of each 
sinus between the lobes; flower-buds pointed, glabrescent ; 
petals nearly 1 in. long ; stamens about 10 : : . I. A. cordata. 
Leaves pubescent with stellate hairs when young, when lobed 
then without a gland in the sinus between the lobes ; 
flower-buds obtuse, tomentellous ; petals } in. long; stamens 
about 20 ; : : ° Mere ° . . 2. A, triloba. 
1. A. cordata, 2. Br. ex Steud. Nomenel. ed. 2, 1.49. A tree up to 
40 ft. high; branchlets stout, glabrous, lenticellate, sometimes slightly 
glaucous. Leaves broadly ovate, truncate or cordate at the base, 
acuminate, entire or 3—5-lobed, 4-7 in. long, 34-8 in. broad, biglandular 
at the base; when lobed with a solitary large more or less stipitate 
globose gland at the base of each sinus, chartaceous or submembranous, 
digitately 5-nerved from the base, adpressed-pubescent with simple hairs 
when very young, soon becoming glabrous except for the tufts of hairs in 
the axils of the principal and secondary nérves below ; transverse nerves 
parallel ; petiole 14-8 in. long, terete, glabrous ; stipules early deciduous. 
Cymes paniculate, lax-flowered ; branches slightly spreading, up to 4 in, 
