826 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEH (PRAIN). | Crotonogyne. 
15, 5 outer; extra-staminal glands short, wide, obtuse, faintly connate, 
glabrous. Female : Calyx oblong, closely stellate-pubescent, } in. long; 
lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, subacute, eglandular or occasionally 
glandular. Petals not seen. Disk depressed-urceolate. Ovary not 
seen. Capsule densely stellate-pubescent and sparingly setose, $ in. 
long. Seeds ovoid, } in. long, reddish-brown overlaid. with white or 
pale yellow glistening blotches.—C. Sapini, De Wild. Comp. Kasai, 
329. C. Thonneri, De Wild. Pl. Thonn. Congol. ii. 226, t. 10. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Equatorial Province; Upper Lopori, Bieler, 
8! Bangala; Mombongo, Mongala, 1460 ft., Yhouner, 171 bis! Eastern Province; 
near Nyangwe, Dewevre, 1072! Lualaba-Kasai Distr.; Mukenge, Pogge, 1326! 
Bondo, Sapin. 
13. C. strigosa, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 191. Shrub, 
everywhere more or less strigose with stiffish spreading hairs. Leaves 
scattered, short-petioled, thin, obovate or oblanceolate-oblong, rather 
long-acuminate, narrowed from beyond the middle to a narrow rounded 
or truncate base, margin sparingly stvigose, 7-12 in. long, 24-4 in. 
wide, dark green, sparingly strigose on the nerves and veins on both 
surfaces; petiole 3-5 lin. long, densely strigose with spreading hairs; 
stipules narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 9-10 lin. long, densely strigose 
externally. Racemes 6-10 in. long, simple, densely strigose with 
spreading hairs ; male flowers in few-flowered glomerules 3-3 in, apart ; 
females few, solitary towards the apex of the racemes; pedicel densely 
strigose, in fruit 3-4 lin. long; bracts densely strigose externally. 
Male: Calyx globose, closely and shortly pubescent externally, 1 lin. 
wide; 3-lobed. Corolla campanulate, margin entire or slightly undu- 
late ; tube glabrous within. Stamens about 10,4 outer; extra-staminal 
glands orbicular, glabrous, contiguous but quite free. Female: Calyx 
narrow-ovoid, densely strigose externally, } in. long; lobes 0, narrow- 
lanceolate, acute, eglandular. Petals white, orbicular, imbricate, shorter 
than the calyx-lobes. Disk shallow-urceolate. Ovary strigose. Capsule 
densely strigose, } in. long. 
Lower Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Oban, Talbot, 658! 659! 
47. TANNODIA, Baill.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii, 304. 
Flowers diccious or polyamo-diccious, dichlamydeous. -_ 
Calyx ovoid or subglobose, closed in bud, splitting into 2-5 valvate /o r 
Petals 4-5, imbricate. Stamens 7-12, 2-seriate; filaments of the sae 
series usually shorter than the inner, filaments of the inner series ~ : 
slightly connate below; anthers dorsified or almost basifixed, . gies 
parallel, opening by longitudinal slits, those of the outer series 8 bin 
introrse, of the inner extrorse or lateral. Disk of 4—5 glands alter ae: 
with the petals and outer filaments. Rudimentary ovary . . are 
Calyx 4—5-fid to -sect ; lobes unequal, imbricate. Petals 4—, 1m) d a 
Disk annular or cup-shaped. Ovary 3-celled, more or ene esse 
tomentose; styles 3, slightly united below, at first erect, ultim 
