ADDENDA, 1051 
to long petioled, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, emarginate, base very 
slightly and narrowly cordate, 13-34 in. long, 4-1} in. broad, coriaceous, 
entire, pale green, dull and uniformly persistently stellate-puberulous 
above, densely clothed with silvery scales and with a few rusty scales 
intermixed beneath ; lateral nerves 12-14 on each side of the midrib, 
neither impressed above not raised beneath; petiole 4-1} in. long, 
densely silvery and rusty lepidote, with 2 sessile glands underneath at 
the point of attachment with the leaf-blade ; stipules subulate, usually 
short, occasionally very long, scaly; racemes bisexual, 1-4 in. long, 
terminal, rhachis densely silvery and rusty scaly; bracts subulate-lan- 
ceolate, scaly ; male pedicels 1-2 lin, long, densely scaly ; sepals ovate, 
obtuse, 1} lin. long, coriaceous, densely scaly outside, closely puberulous 
within ; petals ovate, rather shorter than the sepals, scaly on the out- 
side, margins villous, glabrous within; disk-glands thick, glabrous ; 
stamens 15-20; filaments thinly pubescent below; receptacle pilose ; 
female sepals as in the male; petals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, scaly 
outside, hairy within; disk minute; ovary densely clothed with fringed 
Seales; styles spreading, 6-8-partite, glabrous; capsule very slightly 
3-lobed, } in. long, densely scaly ; seeds smooth.—C. gratissimus, Pax 
in Engl. Jahrb, x. 35, not of Burch. 
Lower Guinea. German South-West Africa: Damaraland; Okahandja, 
Hopfner ! Dinter, 229! Kaiser Wilhelms Berg, near Okahandja, Marloth, 1354! 
Otjovazandu, Rautanen, 571! Ombika, Rautanen, 572! 
Mozamb. Distr. Bechuanaland; Oliphants Kloof, Fleck, 452a! 453a! 
Very similar to C. gratissimus, Burch., and C. zambesicus, Miill. Arg., but 
distinguished from both by the leaves being persistently stellate-puberulous on the 
upper surface. 
Occurs also in subtropical Bechuanaland and the Transvaal. 
146. Croton gratissimus, Burch. Trav. S. Afr. ii. 263, A shrub 
or smail tree, 4-20 tt. high ; twigs slender, angular, covered with silvery 
and rusty scales when young; leaves fragrant, alternate, distinctly to 
long petioled, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or acute, often emarginate, 
harrowly cordate at the base, 14-2 in. long, 4-3 in. wide, coriaceous, 
penninerved, entire, pale green, quite glabrous and shining above, 
densely clothed with silvery and rusty scales intermixed beneath : 
lateral nerves 10-12 on each side, neither impressed above nor raised 
beneath ; petiole 4-1 in. long, densely clothed with silvery and rusty 
Scales, apical glands usually very minute or absent, if distinct then 
always sessile and attached to the upper portion of the petiole slightly 
below its attachment to the blade; stipules subulate, very short. 
Racemes bisexual, up to 24 in. long, terminal; 1hachis densely silvery 
and rusty scaly ; bracts subulate-lanceolate, scaly ; male pedicels 1-1} lin. 
long, densely scaly, Sepals ovate, obtuse, 1} lin. long, coriaceous, 
densely scaly outside, closely puberulous within. Petals ovate, as large 
as the sepals, scaly outside, villous on the margin, glabrous ; disk-glands 
thick, glabrous. Stamens 10-15; filaments thinly pubescent below. 
Receptacle pilose. Femalesepalsas in the male. Petals oblong-lanceo- 
late, obtuse, scaly outside, hairy within, Disk minute. Ovary densely 
