834 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEA (PRAIN). | Caperonia, 
Nile Land. Galabat: near Matamma, Schweinfurth, 870! 871! Kordofan: 
Arashkol Mountain, Kotschy, 69! 113! Dinka: Nassar on the River Sobat, Broun, 
1728! Jur: Abu Gurun’s Sereba, Schweinfurth, 4256 !. 
50. CHROZOPHORA, Neck.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. PI. iii. 305. 
Flowers moneciogus, dichlamydeous. Male: Calyx closed in bud, 
ovoid or globose, splitting into 5 valvate lobes. Petals 5, usually shorter 
than the calyx-lobes. Disk inconspicuous. Stamens 5-15; filaments con- 
nate below in a column, more or less distinctly 1—3-seriate ; anthers ob- 
long, erect ; cells parallel, opening longitudinally, Rudimentary ovary 0. 
Female: Calyx 5-lobed ; lobes narrow. Petals 5, narrow, usually small, 
occasionally obsolete. Disk-glands alternate with the petals, short and 
broad. Ovary 3-celled; ovules in each cell solitary ; styles erect, 2-fid, 
the arms entire, rather stout, sometimes at length spreading. Capsule 
rather coriaceous, 3-dymous, breaking up into 3 2-valved cocci. Seeds 
ovoid, without a caruncle ; testa smooth or slightly rugose ; albumen 
thick, fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat.—Diffuse or erect herbs, rarely 
shrubby, harshly or softly stellate-pubescent. Leaves alternate, petioled, 
often plicate, sometimes bullate. Racemes rather dense, usually short, 
from the axils of the upper leaves; their upper flowers male, the lower 
female. Capsules sometimes stellate-pubescent, sometimes lepidote. 
Species about 7, extending to the Mediterranean region, throughont the Orient 
and to India and Indo-China. 
Prostrate herbs with stellate-pubescent but not lepidote 
capsules ; stamens usually morethan 10; seedsrough 1. C. plicata. 
Erect or suberect shrubs or undershrubs, with lepidote, 
but not stellate-pubescent capsules ; stamens not more 
than 10. 
Seeds rough ; capsules muricate ; leaves oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, longer than broad ; scales on ripe capsules oe 
rather loose and remote, their margins pectinate . 2. C. oblongifolia. 
Seeds smooth; capsules not muricate ; leaves rhomboid 
or subhastate, nearly as broad as long; scales on 
ripe capsules rather close set, their margins undu- 
late or. subentire. * ‘chosen 
Fruiting sepals lanceolate in.long . . - & C. : . 
Fruiting sepals linear, } a. : : : . 4. C. broechiana. 
1. C. plicata, A. Juss. ex Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 850, excl. syn. Lam. 
A prostrate herb with diffuse much-branched stems, softly white ee 
pubescent. Leaves distinctly petioled, ovate or ovate-rhomboid, an: 
base somewhat unequally truncate, 2-glandular, margin undulate, ast 
and somewhat bullately rugulose, thinly stellate-tomentose above, mom 
densely so beneath, 4-1} in. long, }—$ in. wide; petiole 4-1 in. ~ 
densely tomentose ; stipules linear, 1 lin. long, deciduous. Race Is 
short-peduncled, rather dense, often leafy below ; lower fous 6 
in fruit sometimes 1-3 in. long. Male calyx globose in bud, ipo 
stellate-pubescent ; lobes ovate. Petals pink, lanceolate, shorter 7 e 
the calyx-lobes. Stamens 12-15, 3-verticillate. Female sepals lanceo’s™ 
