820 CXX1I. EUPHORBIACEA (PRAIN). | Crotonogyne. 
times accompanied or replaced by stellate hairs mixed with long simple 
setee, 3-celled: ovules solitary in each cell; styles 3, 2- or 3-partite, 
sometimes each branch again 2-partite, occasionally the arms again 
2-fid. Capsule lepidote or pubescent and hispid, breaking up into 
3 2-valved cocci. Seeds oblong, estrophiolate, brown overlaid with grey 
or yellowish blotches.—Shrubs, rarely small trees, with lepidote or 
occasionally stellate pubescent twigs. Leaves usually short-petioled, 
rather large, more or less lepidote when young, alternate, scattered or 
rarely clustered at the ends of twigs, alternate, entire, penninerved, 
with two large glands on the upper surface at the point of junction 
with the petiole ; petiole lepidote and sometimes also stellate-pubescent, 
rarely setose; stipules large, ovate, acuminate, lepidote or stellate- 
pubescent and sometimes also setose, deciduous. Flowers in long axil- 
lary interrupted spike-like racemes often exceeding the leaves; bracts 
small, usually 2-glandular. Male flowers usually shortly rarely dis- 
tinctly pedicelled, glomerulate or on short clustered spikelets densely 
clothed with imbricating bracteoles; females solitary, less often in 
pairs, with long stout pedicels, generally on upper part of racemes only. 
Species 13, all endemic. 
Male pedicel longer than calyx ; male petals free. . 1. C. Preussii. 
Male pedicel not longer than calyx; male petals united. 
Indumentum lepidote only, or 0; ovary lepidote. 
Male flowers on distinct bracteolate spikelets; female 
calyx 5-lobed. 
Bracts usually eglandular . : : : . 2. C. caterviflora. 
Bracts always 2-glandular. 
Leaves usually abruptly narrowed into a distinct 
false petiole ; male flowers 13-2 lin. wide 
Leaves narrowed gradually to the base; male 
flowers ] lin. wide : = : é 
Male flowers glomerulate ; bracts 2-glandular. 
Leaves oblanceolate ; female calyx 4-lobed 
Leaves linear-lanceolate; female calyx 5-lobed . 
Indumentum of stellate hairs or sete or both, associated 
with or replacing the flattened scales ; ovary (when 
known) setose. 
Leaves abruptly narrowed into a distinct false petiole. : 
Male racemes simple; male calyx almost glabrous 7. C. impedita. 
Male racemes branched ; male calyx closely stellate 8. C. Laurenti. 
Leaves gradually narrowed to a cuneate or narrow 
rounded base. 
Margins of leaves glabrous. 
Leaves oblanceolate-oblong ; female calyx 4- ; 
lobed . s ; : . $ ; . 9. C. lasiocarpe- 
Leaves linear-lanceolate; female calyx 5-lobed 10. C. par vifolia. 
Margins of leaves setose or strigose; leaves ob- 
lanceolate oblong ; female calyx 5-lobed. 
Bracts 2-glandular. ; 
Twigs stellate-pubescent and lepidote . . 11. C. ikelembensis. 
Twigs stellate-pubescent and sparingly setose 12. C. Pogget. 
Bracts eglandular ; twigs densely strigose with : 
spreading heire . : : : : . 13. C. strigosa. 
. C. Zenkerr. 
. OC. manniana. 
eB 0 
. C. gabunensis. 
. C. angustifolia. 
D> Or 
