Erythrococea. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACE# (PRAIN). 865 
hairs, minutely verrucose; petiole closely and softly hispid, } in. 
long; stipules unmodified, hyaline-scarious, minute. Flowers small, 
in peduncled racemes; peduncles slender, hispidulous, males 2 in., 
females } in. long; pedicels glabrous, males }-} in., females } in. long. 
Male calyx white, glabrous, globose in bud; lobes 8-4, membranous. 
Stamens 27; outer 9-12, the rest central; filaments longer than the 
anthers; glands minute, hirsute, rhomboid, all inter-staminal. Female 
calyx white, 2-lobed. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled; stigmas free, linear, 
arcuately reflexed from the base, smooth. Disk of 2 large free equally 
2-lobulate scales, their margins contiguous under the base of the ovary. 
Capsule not seen.—Claoxylon membranaceum, Mill. Arg. in Flora, 
1864, 437, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 778. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 4000 ft., Mann, 1197! 
Buea, 3300 ft., Lehmbach, 212! 
A very distinct species. 
25. E. patula, Prain in Ann. Bot. xxv. 619. Shrub or small tree; 
twigs hispid ; bud-scales persistent. Leaves short-petioled, membranous, 
ovate or narrow elliptic, rather abruptly acuminate, base rounded, margin 
distinctly but shortly toothed, 8-10 in. long, 24-3 in. wide, pale green, 
hispid especially on the nerves on both surfaces or glabrous except for 
some hispid hairs on the nerves beneath, minutely verrucose; petiole 
hispid, 4-4 in. long; stipules unmodified, hyaline-scarious, minute, 
Flowers small, in peduncled racemes; peduncles thin, wiry, glabrous, 
1}-2 in. long ; pedicels glabrous, male 4-1}. in. long. Male calyx green, 
glabrous, conic-pyramidal in bud; lobes 4, membranous. Stamens 
50-54; outer 10, the rest central; filaments much shorter than the 
anthers; glands minute, hirsute, rhomboid, all inter-staminal, Female 
flowers unknown.—Claoxylon patulum, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 93. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Jabassi, 200-350 ft., Ledermann, 1063! 1106! 
Owing to the absence of female flowers the precise affinity of this species 
Temains somewhat uncertain. The hispidity which characterises it is shared by two 
others, Z, membranacea and E. hispida. ¥rom the former it is distinguished by its 
more numerous stamens with filaments shorter than the anthers; from the latter by 
its more numerous stamens with conic-pyramidal male buds. The last-mentioned 
character it shares with EZ. Mannii, next which it ought probably to be placed. 
26. E. Mannii, Prain in Ann. Bot. xxv. 620, Shrub 15 ft. high; 
twigs glabrous; bud-scales persistent. Leaves petioled, membranous, 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, base cuneate, margin irregularly toothed, 
3-8 in. long, 1-2} in. wide, dark green, paler beneath, glabrous; petiole 
glabrous, 3-} in. long; stipules unmodified, hyaline-scarious, minute. 
Owers small, in peduncled racemes ; peduncles slender, glabrous, }—$ in. 
ong; pedicels glabrous, males }- in. long, females ;'; in. long. Male 
calyx green, glabrous, conic-pyramidal in bud; lobes 4, membranous. 
Stamens 24-30 ; outer 10, the rest central ; filaments much shorter than 
the anthers ; glands minute, hirsute, rhomboid, all inter-staminal. 
emale calyx 2-lobed. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled; stigmas free, linear, 
Patulous, smooth. Disk of 2 large free suborbicular entire scales, their 
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