Aleurites. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEE (HUTCHINSON). 815 
fleshy, nearly 24 in. in diam., slightly 4-grooved, glabrous, 1—2-seeded. 
Seeds acute, wrinkled.—Forst. Prodr. 68; Hemsl. in Kew Bulletin, 
1906, 121. A. moluccana, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 590; Miill. Arg. in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 723, and in Mart. Fl. Bras. xi. ii. 304, t. 45; Benth. 
Fl. Austral: vi. 128; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 384; Pax in Engl. 
Pflanzenfam. iii. 5, 73, fig. 44; Drake del Castillo, Fl. Polyn. Frang. 
183; Urban, Symb. Antill. iv. 348; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.- 
Jatroph. 129. A. commutata, Geiseler, Crot. Monogr. 82. A. Ambinua, 
Pers, Syn. ii. 587. A. cordifolia, Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, i. 49, not 
Dryandra cordata, Thunb. A. lobata, Blanco, Fl. Filip, ed. i. 756. 
A. lanceolata, Blanco, |.c. 757. Camirium cordifolium, Gertn. Fruct. 
ii. 195, t. 125, fig. 2. C. oleoswm, Reinw. ex Blume, Cat. Gew. Buitenz. 
104. Jatropha moluccana, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 1006, 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons, Winkler, 58. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Derema, Scheffler, 178 ! 
Portuguese East Africa: cultivated at Mambone, Johnson, 14! 
A native of Malaya and Polynesia, and naturalised in many tropical countries. 
Mallotus Melleri, Sim, Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa, 107, not of Miill. 
Arg. (Sim, 5560), possibly belongs here. 
43. CYRTOGONONE, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 231, 
Flowers dicecious, dichlamydeous. Male: Calyx globose, closed in 
bud, splitting into 2-3 valvate lobes. Petals 5, occasionally 6, con- 
torted-imbricate, as long as or longer than the calyx, free. Stamens 
usually 27-30, occasionally more numerous, outer distinctly 2-seriate 
with a few distinctly central, accompanied by as many inter-staminal 
glands as there are stamens, those of the outer series alternate with, the 
central ones mixed with, the filaments; filaments free, glabrous, about 
thrice as long as the anthers ; anthers dorsifixed, erect in bud, ?-celled ; 
cells longitudinal, introrse, dehiscence longitudinal. Rudimentary 
ovary 0.—A medium to lofty tree, twigs, flowers and leaves beneath 
densely silvery-lepidote. Leaves long-petioled, large, alternate, entire 
or faintly 3-lobed, penninerved, 2-glandular at the junction with the 
petiole; petiole thickened at the apex and base; stipules minute. 
Flowers rather large, inample terminal panicles of few-flowered cymes ; 
racts minute, 
Species 1, endemic. 
1. C. argentea, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 232. A tree, 
30-100 ft. high ; twigs densely silvery-lepidote. Leaves long-petioled, 
coriaceous, elliptic or obovate-oblong, abruptly acuminate, base wide- 
cuneate or rounded, margin entire or occasionally with 2 teeth or 
minute lobes near the apex, 6-10 in. long, 3-5 in. wide, dark green, dull 
and glabrous above, with 2 distinct glands at the apex of the petiole, 
beneath uniformly densely silvery-lepidote; petiole lepidote, 24-4 in. 
long ; stipules minute. Flowers in ample terminal narrow pyramidal 
panicles 10-12 in. long, 4 in. across at the base ; rhachis lepidote with 
