- Erythrococes. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEH (PRAIN). 878 
softly and closely tomentose beneath; petiole hispidly hairy, }-} in. 
long; stipules unmodified, hyaline-scarious, minute. Flowers small, in 
peduncled racemes ; peduncles slender, hispid, 3-1} in. long; pedicels 
glabrous, males } in. long, females 4 in. long. Male calyx green, glab- 
rous, globose in bud; lobes 4, membranous. Stamens 24; outer 10, 
the rest central; filaments much shorter than the anthers; glands 
minute, hirsute, rhomboid, all inter-staminal. Female calyx deeply 
2-lobed. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled ; stigmas linear-ovate, at first divari- 
cate, at length recurved, smooth, at the apex of a distinct cylindric style 
half as long as themselves. Disk shallow-urceolate, widely equally 
2-lobed. Capsule 2-coccous, didymous ; cocci } in. across. Seeds not 
seen ripe.—Claoxylon Dewevrei, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 283; De 
Wild. & Durand, Relig. Dewevr. ii. 209, partly; Th. & Hél. Durand, 
Syll. Fl. Congol. 491; as to Dewévre 947 only. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Babadji, 5200 ft., Ledermann, 5988 ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Eastern Prov., Nyangwe, Dewevre, 947! 
The plant from Babadji, male only, agrees well with that from Nyangwe, female 
only, on which the species was based, as regards shape and pubescence of leaves, and 
in these respects differs rather markedly from the closely allied Z. hispida, from 
which, as regards the flowers of both sexes and as regards fruit, #. Dewevrei is 
not readily distinguishable. De Wildeman and Durand, l.c., have referred to 
HL. Dewevrei a male specimen also collected at Nyangwe (9644). This plant as 
regards pubescence agrees, however, with Z. hispida, and not with H. Dewevrei ; 
as regards shape and size of leaf, and as regards male flowers it differs considerably 
from both and may, when the fruit is known, call for separate treatment. In the 
meantime it may without inconvenience be left where De Wildeman and Durand 
have placed it, but must be treated as a distinct variety, characterised as follows :— 
Var. inopinata, Prain in Ann. Bot. xxv. 626. Leaves smaller than in typical 
E. Dewevrei, ovate, acute, base cuneate, margin very faintly toothed, 2 in. long, } in. 
wide, dark green, sparingly hispid on the nerves as in ZL. hispida, and finely verrucose 
on both surfaces, not, tomentose between the nerves beneath. Male calyx as in 
EF. Dewevrei aud E. hispida but rather larger. Stamens 40; outer 10, the rest 
central ; filaments and receptacular glands as in EF. Dewevrei and E. hispida. 
Female flowers and fruit not seen.—Claoxylon Dewevrei, De Wild. & Durand, 
Reliq. Dewevr. ii. 209, as to Dewevre 964A only ; hardly of Pax. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Eastern Prov. ; Nyangwe, Dewevre, 964A! 
40. E. hispida, Prain in Ann. Bot. xxv. 625. Shrub 6-8 ft. high ; 
twigs hispid with yellow hairs; bud-scales persistent. Leaves short- 
petioled, membranous, oblong, very rarely ovate, acuminate, base 
rounded or wide-cuneate, margin shortly distantly toothed, usually 
9-8 in. long, when ovate only 2-3 in. long, 13-2 in. wide, medium to 
dark green, paler beneath, sparingly hispid on the nerves above, more 
densely hispid on the nerves beneath, finely verrucose on both surfaces ; 
petiole usually hispid, }-4 in. long ; stipules unmodified, hyaline-scarious. 
owers small, in peduncled racemes ; peduncles slender, hispid, $-1 in. 
long; pedicels glabrous, males } in. long, females 3 in. long. Male 
calyx green, glabrous, globose in bud; lobes 4, membranous. Stamens 
27; outer 10, the rest central ; filaments much shorter than the anthers ; 
glands minute, hirsute, rhomboid, all inter-staminal. Female calyx 
deeply 2-lobed. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled ; stigmas linear-ovate, at first 
