Cephalocroton. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEH (PRAIN). 845 
2-3-fid. . Female : Sepals pinnately 4-lobed, lobes again many-lobulate 
and usually glandular. Ovary tomentose ; styles very slightly connate 
below, many-lobulate, glabrous. Capsule scabridly stellate-pubescent, 
deeply 3-sulcate, # in, wide.—Miill. Arg. in Linnea, xxxiv. 155, and in 
DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 762; Baill. Adansonia, v. 148; Pax in Engl. Pfl. 
Ost-Afr,C 240, and in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Adrian. 8, fig. 3, A-C ; 
C. cordofanus, var. betulinus, Miill. Arg. ll.ec.; Pax le. 9. Acalypha 
betulina, Schweinf. Pl. Nilot. 13 partly ; not of Retz. 
Nile Land. Nubia: north of Maharrakat and Gedaref, Schweinfurth, 845! 
Matamma, Schweinfurth, 846! Sennar: Abuzor, Broun, 774! Sudan: Roseires, 
Broun, 498! Malakai, Broun, 1690! on the White Nile, Petherick ! Hellet Idris, 
Hartmann ! by the Atbara River, Steudner, 845: Mersalamia, Steudner, 541! 
Kordofan: Arashkol Mountain, Kotschy, 8! 118! and without precise locality, 
Kotschy, 483 ! 
5. C. scabridus, Pax ¢ K. Hoffm. in Engl. Pfanzenr. Euphorb.- 
Adrian. 9. Shrub; twigs verrucose, rigidly stellate. Leaves petioled, 
rather firm, triangular-ovate, acuminate, base cordate, margin sharply 
toothed, 13-2 in. long, #1} in. wide, harshly stellate-hirsute ; petiole 
4-§ in. long, slender, harshly stellate-hairy; stipules 14 lin. Jong, 
few-lobed. Heads globose, terminal, very small; peduncle short, 
tawny-pubescent ; female pedicels 1-2, } in. long. Male: Calyx 
Sparingly pilose. Female: Sepals pinnately lobed. Ovary tomentose ; 
styles shortly connate below, many-lobulate, glabrous. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Ukamba, Hildebrandt, 2820! 
6. ©. Pueschelii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xiii. 84. Shrub, 3-5 ft. 
high ; twigs harshly stellate-pilose. Leaves sessile or nearly so, when 
young often with a pink or purplish tinge, firmly membranous, ovate 
or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, base rounded, truncate or rarely 
subcordate, margin entire, 1-2} in. long, }-1} in. wide, when young 
rather densely pilose, at length glabrous except for scattered stellate 
hairs on the nerves and margin, somewhat harshly scabrous ; petiole 
stellate-hairy, occasionally 2 lin. long; stipules minute, very tomentose. 
Heads globose, terminal, 4 in. across; peduncles §~1 in. long, softly 
pubescent ; female pedicels 4-5, softly pubescent, }-} in. long, 
Occasionally 0. Male: Calyx glabrous; lobes ovate-triangular, acute ; 
rudimentary ovary columnar, with a 2-lobed or 2-partite undilated tip. 
Female : Sepals densely stellate-pubescent, pinnately 4-6-lobed. Ovary 
finely pubescent ; styles connate below in a sparingly pilose column, long, 
free, glabrous, much laciniate above. Capsule finely stellate-pubescent, 
deeply 3-suleate, } in. wide.—Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Adrian. 11. 
C. mollis, var. pilosa, Schinz ex N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1909. 140. 
Lower Guinea. (German South-west Africa: Amboland; Okasima, Schinz, 
2067! between Olukonda and Unkuambi, Schinz, 2068! Ondonga, Rautanen, 205! 
207 ! Oshando, Schinz, 729! Otyitambi, Luderitz, 87! Damaraland; Otyisondu, 
Pueschel, 588 1 Otawi, Dinter, 832! Ankas, Dinter, 8324 ; Rietfontein, Seiner, 
369! Hereroland ; Okaukueyo, Rautanen, 715! 
Mozamb. Distr. Bechuanaland: Olifants Kloof, Fleck, 443a! Kokong, 
Schultze Ngamiland: Kwebe Hills, 3000 ft., Zugard, 51! Mrs. Lugard, 70! 
