874 CXXI, EUPHORBIACE (PRAIN). [Lrythrococea. 
divaricate, at length recurved, smooth, at the apex of a distinct cylindric 
style half as long as themselves. Disk shallow-urceolate, widely and 
equally 2-lobed. Capsule 2-coccous, didymous; cocci } in. across. 
Seeds with a red aril and a foveolate-reticulate testa.—Claoxylon 
hispidum, Pax in Engl. Jahrb, xix. 85. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons; Buea, 5300 ft., Preuss, 888! 908! Deistel ! 
Lehmbach, 179! Reder, 638! Great Cameroon, 5300 ft., Mildbraed, 3459! 
A very distinct species of unusually restricted range, readily distinguished from 
all the others in the genus, except E. Dewevrei, by its larger cocci. 
55, CLAOXYLON, A. Juss.; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 309. 
Flowers diccious, apetalous. Male: Calyx globose, minutely 
apiculate and closed in bud, splitting into 3-4 valvate lobes. Stamens 
(in the African species) 6-12, inserted on a slightly raised receptacle, 
either mixed with inter-staminal glands only or (in the African species) 
surrounded by an extra-staminal cup, but without inter-staminal 
glands; filaments free; anthers erect, obovoid, 2-celled, dehiscing by 
extrorse longitudinal slits. Rudimentary ovary 0. Female: Calyx 
2-3, or (in the African species) 4-partite ; segments smaller than in the 
male, Disk 2-lobed. Ovary hispid or velvety, 2—3-celled (2-celled in 
the African species) ; outer solitary ; stigmas free, recurved from the 
base, plumosely laciniate throughout. Capsule (in the African species) 
2-eoccous ; cocci subglobose ;_ splitting loculicidally. Seeds almost 
spherical, usually arillate; testa crustaceous, foveolate-reticulate or 
nearly smooth; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat.—Small trees 
or shrubs with stoutish twigs. Leaves alternate, usually distinctly 
petioled, margin crenate or toothed; stipules small, deciduous. 
Flowers in lateral or axillary, dense or rather lax uniformly floriferous 
racemes, small or minute ; male flowers usually several, female flowers 
usually solitary to a bract.—Claoaylon § Discoclaoxylon, Mill. Arg. ™ 
Flora, 1864, 437. 
Species about 40, widely spread in the tropics of the Old World, represented - 
Africa by 3 species belonging to the endemic section, Discoclaorylon, Miill. Arg. 
Leaves oblanceolate-oblong, base narrow-cuneate ; stamens 
11-12; extra-staminal cup deep, its margin entire 
Leaves ovate-oblong, base rather wide-cuneate. ? 
Stamens 11-12; extra-staminal cup shallow, its margin 
1. C. pedicellare. 
deeply partite . . > i x : . 2. C. occidentale. 
Stamens 6-8; extra-staminal cup deep, its margin 
crenulate . ‘ ‘ : : i : of : . 3. C. hexandrum. 
1. CG. pedicellare, Miill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 437. Small tes 
twigs green, glabrous, closely and minutely lenticelled. a base 
tinctly petioled, membranous, oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse or ST bal 
narrow-cuneate, margin very minutely and distantly glandular-too ong; 
6-10 in. long, 2-24 in. wide, medium green, purplish vey te i a 
paler beneath, glabrous except for a few scattered adpressed ge 
the nerves beneath, smooth above, minutely verrucose beneath ; /@ 
