824 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEA (PRAIN). | Crotonogyne. 
obtuse, eglandular or sometimes with a few glands. Petals 5, free. 
Disk urceolate. Ovary densely stellate-pubescent and setose with long 
simple stiff hairs; styles 3, each 3-partite, stellate-pubescent at the 
base outside below the division, Capsule (only seen young) densely 
stellate-pubescent and sparingly setose. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Johann-AlbrechtshOhe; Mundame, 650 ft., 
Buesgen, 163! Lom, 650-1000 ft., Ledermann, 6397! 
8. C. Laurentii, De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 278, 
t. 73, excl. fig. 2. Shrub, stellate-pubescent and sparingly lepidote. 
Leaves scattered, short-petioled, firm, oblanceolate-oblong, acutely 
acuminate, slightly narrowed from beyond the middle to the lower 
tenth and then abruptly narrowed to a long pseudo-petiole much longer 
than the petiole proper, 10-14 in. long, 24-34 in. wide ; petiole 24-3 lin. 
long ; stipules ovate, acuminate, 24 lin. long, stellate-pubescent and 
sparingly lepidote. Racemes 2-2} ft. long, rather laxly paniculately 
branched ; branches 6-15 in. long, subtended by lanceolate leafy bracts 
4-4 in. long ; bracts 2-glandular ; male flowers in few-flowered glomerules 
3-4 in. apart. Male: Calyx globose, stellate-pubescent and sparingly 
lepidote, 1 lin. wide, usually 3-lobed. Corolla campanulate ; tube hairy 
within ; margin very shortly lobed. Stamens about 18, 5 outer ; extra- 
staminal glands connate in a glabrous lobed ring. Female flowers not 
seen.—Th. & Hél. Dur. Syll. Fl. Congol. 490. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Lualaba-Kasai Distr.; Batempa, Laurent ! 
9. CG. lasiocarpa, Prain in Kew Bulletin. 1911, 265. Shrub, 
lepidote and sparingly stellate-pubescent. Leaves scattered, short- 
petioled, firm, oblong-ovate to oblanceolate-oblong, acutely acuminate, 
narrowed to an acute base, 6-12 in. long, 2-44 in. wide ; petiole $17 in. 
long, lepidote; stipules ovate, acuminate, lepidote and sparingly stellate- 
pubescent, 3-4 lin. long. Racemes up to 9 in. long, simple or ee 
females sparingly branched ; bracts 2-glandular; male flowers in fom 
flowered glomerules }—} in. apart; females few, solitary towards the 
ends of the racemes, pedicel lepidote, } in. long. Male: Calyx globose, 
closely lepidote, 1 lin. wide, usually 2-lobed. Corolla wide-campanulate, 
margin very slightly lobed; tube hairy within. Stamens about 10, 
6 outer; extra-staminal glands free, distinct. Female: Calyx oblong, 
closely lepidote, } in. long; lobes 4, narrow-lanceolate, subacute, 
eglandular. Petals 4, free. Disk deeply lobed. Ovary closely lepidote 
and setose with long simple stiff hairs ; styles 3, each 7-partite or — 
2-partite, stellate-pubescent at the base outside below the division. 
Capsule (only seen young) densely lepidote and setose. 
Lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea: Akonangi, Tessmann, 947! 1002! and 
without precise locality, Tessmann, 991 ! 
10. C. parvifolia, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 102. Shrub, 
14-18 ft. high ; twigs glabrous. Leaves scattered, short-petioled, firm, 
narrowly lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, narrowed to an acute ripe 
3-4 in. long, $ in. wide, quite glabrous ; petiole }-} in. long, sparng'y 
