846 CXXII. EUPHORBIACE® (PRAIN). | Cephalocroton. 
7. ©. mollis, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 99, t. 17. 
Shrub, much-branched from near the base; twigs stellate-velvety. 
Leaves sessile or nearly so, very firm, oblong-ovate or elliptic, obtuse, 
base rounded, margin entire, 1}-2} in. long, $-? in. wide, pubescent 
above, stellate-velvety beneath, veins beneath distinct; petiole under 
1 lin. long, velvety; stipules linear, minute, spreading., Heads 
globose, terminal, 4 in. across; peduncles $ in. long, velvety ; female 
pedicels 3-4, velvety-pubescent, }-} in. long. -Male: Calyx softly 
pilose ; lobes ovate, acute ; rudimentary ovary columnar, with dilated 
lobulate tip. Female: Sepals densely velvety, pinnately 5-6-lobed. 
Ovary finely pubescent ; styles connate below in a tomentose column, 
free, glabrous, much laciniate above. Capsule finely stellate-pubescent, 
3-suleate, $ in. wide.—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 761; Pax in 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 240, and in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Adrian. 
10; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soe. xl. 199. 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; Sena, Peters! 
Gazaland: Lower Umswirizwi River, 1000 ft., Swynnerton, 309! British Central 
Africa: Nyasaland: Zomba, Purves, 119 ! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 958! 
53. HASSKARLIA, Baill. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 308. 
Flowers dicwcious, apetalous. Male: Calyx thinly membranous, 
3-partite, lobes subvalvate in bud. Stamens 3; filaments very short; 
anthers erect, 4-celled; cells ovoid-globose, at length free from the 
base and opening longitudinally from the apex downwards on the inner 
face. Rudimentary ovary columnar or 0. Female: Calyx minute or 
3-partite. Hypogynous disk of 3 petal-like scales, alternate with and 
nearly as long as the carpels. Ovary fleshy, 3-celled ; ovules in each cell 
solitary ; styles flat, dilated, spreading, adpressed to the top of the 
ovary. Capsule obscurely 3-dymous, breaking up into 3 cocci. Seed 
smooth, caruncle large ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat.—Trees, 
shrubs, or herbs, quite glabrous. Leaves alternate or opposite, short- 
petioled, shining, penninerved. Flowers lateral; males in catkin-like 
spikes numerous; females few. : ; 
Species 3; endemic. The third species, which has been recently discovered, will 
be described in the addenda to this volume. 
Loman a a ee edge 
Leaves opposite . . ‘ : : ; ‘ . 2. H. oppositifolia. 
1. H. didymostemon, 2uill. Adansonia, i.52. Shrub 8-15 ft. or 
a medium to tall tree, 40-80 ft. high; twigs glabrous. Leaves alternate, 
short-petioled, membranous, obovate-oblong, cuspidate, base cuneate, 
narrowing to the petiole, margin entire, 7-9 in. long, 23-5 in. pre 
bright green, somewhat polished and glabrous on both surfaces ; Leer 
4-5 lin. long. Male: Calyx globose in bud, under 1 lin. wide, yellowish ; 
flowers clustered in short axillary spikes. Female: Calyx small ; flowers 
racemose or solitary. Capsule 3-lobed, 3-4 lin. wide.—Miill. ro 
DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 774; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 257; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
