Crotonogyne. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEX (PRAIN). 825 
stellate-puberulous ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, acute, 2 lin. long, stellate- 
puberulous. Racemes up to 9 in. long, simple; bracts 2-glandular ; 
male flowers in few-flowered glomerules 4-3 in. apart; female flowers 
solitary towards the ends of the racemes; pedicel stellate-puberulous, 
$ in. long. Male: Calyx globose, stellate-puberulous, 1 lin. wide, 
2-lobed. Corolla wide-campanulate, margin distinctly 5-lobed ; lobes 
orbicular; tube hairy within. Stamens about 12, 5 outer; extra- 
staminal glands free, distinet. Female: Calyx oblong, stellate- 
puberulous, } in. long; lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, eglandular. 
Petals 5, free. Disk subentire. Ovary densely clothed with simple 
stiff hairs; styles 3, each twiee partite, glabrous throughout.—C. 
angustifolia, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 103, not of Pax. Mannio- 
phyton angustifolium, Baill. Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. ii. 954. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Ogowe River, Thollon, 134! 361! 769! 
A very distinct species, growing on rocks in river-beds, which are completely 
covered when the rivers are in flood. 
ll. C, ikelembensis, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 264. Shrub, 
stellate-pubescent and lepidote. ‘Leaves scattered, short-petioled, firm, 
obovate, acute, slightly narrowed from beyond the middle to the 
suddenly wide cuneate base, margin distantly setose, 6-10 in. long, 
2-3} in. wide; petiole very stout, 5 lin. long; stipules ovate, acute, 
2} lin. long. Racemes up to 14 in. long, simple or sparingly branched ; 
branches short; bracts 2-glandular; male flowers in few-flowered 
glomerules 1 in. apart below, }-1 in. apart higher up. Male: Calyx 
globose, densely stellate-pubescent and sparingly lepidote, 14-2 lin. 
wide, 3-lobed or occasionally 4-lobed. Corolla wide-campanulate ; tube 
hairy within, hardly exceeding the 5 orbicular truncate or emarginate 
lobes, Stamens about 18, 5 outer ; extra-staminal glands shortly connate 
in a lobed ring hirsute outside like the interior of the corolla-tube. 
Female flowers not seen.—C. Lawrentii, var. ikelembense, De Wild. 
Etudes Fl, Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 278, t. 73, fig. 2; Th. & Héb. 
Dur. Syll. Fl. Congol. 490. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Equatorial Provinee; Bombimba on the 
Ikelemba River, Laurent ! 
12. C. Poggei, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 84. Shrub, rusty stellate- 
pubescent and sparingly setose. Leaves scattered, short-petioled, firm, 
obovate or oblanceolate-oblong, shortly acutely acuminate, narrowed to 
an acute or rarely rounded or subcordate base, margin distantly setose, 
-10 in. long, 2-3 in. wide; petiole 4-8 lin. long, sparingly stellate- 
pubescent and with sometimes a few stiff ‘simple hairs; stipules ovate, 
acuminate, 3-31 lin. long, densely stellate-pubescent and sparingly 
Setose. Racemes 4~7 in. long, simple, stellate-pubescent ; male flowers 
In few-flowered glomerules 4—3 in. apart ; females few, solitary towards 
the apex of the racemes, pedicel stellate-pubescent, in fruit 7-8 lin. 
ong; bracts stellate-pubescent and 2-glandular. Male: Calyx globose, 
closely stellate-pubescent, llin. wide, 3-lobed. Corolla wide-campanu- 
ate, margin distinctly 5-lobed ; tube hairy within. Stamens about 
