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recurved, glabrous, 2-partite. Capsule 3-coccous ; cocci 2-valved. Seeds 
ovoid ; testa crustaceous, dull; albumen firmly fleshy ; cotyledons broad, 
flat.—Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, petioled, generally 3-5-nerved 
at the base, midrib thereafter penninerved, margin entire or casually 
faintly 8-lobed. Flowers small or very small, in straight terminal sub- 
spicate racemes, bracteate and bracteolate ; pedicels articulate; in both 
sexes usnally 2, less often 3 or more, rarely solitary to a bract.—Holstia, 
Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 220. 
Species 4; three in Tropical Africa, one in the Mascarene Islands. 
Tall trees; petals always longer than the sepals; pedicels 
longer than the calyx; flowers 1-2 toa bract . - 1. LZ. Swynnertonii. 
Shrubs; petals always shorter thau the sepals. 
Pedicels longer than the calyx; flowers 1-2 toa bract 2. 7. tenutfolia. 
Pedicels shorter than the calyx; flowers 3 or more toa 
bract . z 3 : 5 ‘ = : . 3. 7. sessiliflora. 
1. T. Swynnertonii, Prain in Journ. Bot. 1912,127. A tall tree 
with a fluted trunk and a hard durable timber ; twigs glabrous. Leaves 
distinctly petioled, firmly membranous, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, some- 
what abruptly narrowed below the obtuse apex, base wide-truncate or 
cuneate, margin somewhat undulate, rarely quite entire, 24-4 in. long, 
13-23 in. wide; nerves 4—5 on each side, the lowest pair quite basal ; 
medium green above, paler beneath, glabrous; petiole glabrous, $—} in. 
long ; stipules caducous, ovate, obtuse, $ in. long. Flowers in subspicate 
peduncled racemes terminating the leafy twigs, male racemes up to 8 in. 
long, female 3-4 in. long; males usually 2 to a bract, females usually 
solitary, less often 2 to a bract, the latter developed of the two in female 
Facemes being occasionally a male; male pedicel 2 lin. long, female 
pedicel up to 5 lin. long; bracts ovate, coriaceous, 1 lin. long ; bracteoles 
oblong, membranous, nearly as long. Male: Calyx globose, closed in 
bud, splitting into two valvate segments, slightly pubescent outside. 
etals 4, orbicular, imbricate, rather larger than the sepals, below 
pubescent on the inner face with long viscid hairs. Stamens 7-8, 
4 outer, surrounded by a ring of large fleshy glands alternate with the 
petals and the filaments of the outer series ; filaments considerably longer 
than the anthers. Female calyx subglobose, smaller than the male ; 
lobes triangular, pubescent externally. Petals orbicular, 3-4 times 
larger than the calyx-lobes. Ovary densely tawny-tomentose. Capsule 
3-coccous. Seeds large, ovoid, brown ; testa dull.—Croton Swynnertonit, 
8. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xl. 194. 
Mozamb. Distr. G:zaland: Chirinda Forest, 3700-4000 ft., Swynnerton, 
109! 6519! 
_ 2. T. tenuifolia, Prain in Journ. Bot. 1912, 128. A shrub, 7-10 ft. 
high, wood soft,twigs pubescent. Leaves distinctly petioled, membranous, 
ovate, shortly and abruptly acuminate, base rounded, margin entire or 
casually unequally 3-lobed, 23-3 in. long, 1}-2 in. wide; nerves 3-4 on 
each side, the lowest pair quite basal, dark green above, paler beneath, 
Sparingly pubescent above, more densely pubescent, sometimes almost 
