930 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEE (PRAIN). [Mallotus. - 
almost or quite glabrous beneath.—DC. Prodr. xv.ii.977. Rottlera dentata, Baill. 
Adansonia, i. 69, partly. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Dar-es-Salaam, Kirk, 141! Schulze! 
Holst, 892! Engler, 2180! Vikindo, Stuhlmann, 6106! 6130! Tambani, Stuhl- 
mann, 6150! 
Also in Madagascar. 
The status of the four varietics here recognised is somewhat unequal. It is 
possible that Beille is justified in treating WM. Chevalieri, which is certainly 
identical with Claoxylon cordifolium, Benth., as a species distinct from the other 
three varieties. On the other hand the difference between Pax’s variety pubescens 
and Miiller’s variety glabrata is one of degree only, not of kind; while they may 
be kept varietally apart, they are clearly conspecific. Even if these two be 
treated as undeserving of separate recognition the form distinguished by Miiller 
as var. integrifolia must still be considered a distinct variety of the species to 
which the thinner-leaved forms “pubescens” and “glabrata” belong. It is not 
clear whether Gieseler intended to include in his Croton oppositifolius both 
Claoxylon cordifolium, the purple-stamened plant, and the forms with yellow 
stamens; if he meant his description to apply only to one of the two it is not clear 
which of them he had in view. 
66. CLEIDION, Blume; Benth. et Hook, f. Gen. Pl. iii, 320. 
Flowers moneecious or dicecious, apetalous. Male: Calyx globose, 
closed in bud, splitting into 3-4 valvate lobes. Stamens numerous, 
crowded on a convex or conical receptacle; filaments free 5 anthers 
dorsifixed ; connective sometimes apiculate ; cells transversely didymous. 
Rudimentary ovary 0. Female: Sepals usually 3-5 (rarely 5), imbri- 
cate. Ovary 2-3-celled; styles long, slender, deeply 2-fid ; ovules 
solitary in each cell. Disk 0. Capsule 2-3-coccous ; cocci 2-valved. 
Seeds subglobose ; testa coriaceous ; albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, 
flat.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled, glabrous, usually 
toothed, penninerved. Male flowers in lax axillary racemes, solitary or 
clustered. Female flowers long-peduncled, solitary or geminate, axillary. 
Capsule smooth, 
Species about 15, throughout the tropics of both hemispheres, 
Leaves shortly petioled, obovate-oblong, much narrowed to 
the base; male racemes simple. : : : . 1. C. gabonicum, 
Leaves long-petioled, ovate or oblong, base rounded; male . 
racemes branching . > > ° . ° - 2. C. Preussir. 
1. C. gabonicum, Baill. Adansonia, xi. 129. A diccious seer 
(Griffon dw Bellay) or tree about 50 ft. high (Johnson) ; young brane = 
sparingly pubescent, Leaves shortly petioled, alternate, Sieeneere 
acuminate, 4-7 in. long, 14-24 in. wide, much narrowed to the ak 
slightly crenately toothed, membranous, dark green, glabrous on er 
surfaces, with 4-5 pairs of ascending secondary nerves, looping to make 
a scalloped intra-marginal vein continuous with a pair of basal yee 
midrib, veins and reticulations prominent beneath ; petioles so a 
pubescent, 4-4 in. long; stipules ovate, acute, somewhat neg? vce 
side, 4 in.long. Male spikes rather lax, slender, 4-10 in. long; ils 
