1054 ADDENDA. 
10. Cluytia abyssinica, Jaub. &: Spach. Add: Mildbr. Wiss. 
Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. ii. 460. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Rugege forest, Wildbraed, 915; 
Bugoie, Mildbraed, 1485. 
3. Grossera Quintasii, Par ¢ K. Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenr. 
Euphorb.-Acalyph. Chrozophor. 108. Shrub (2); twigs glabrous. Leaves 
distinctly petioled, thinly coriaceous, elliptic, bluntly acuminate, base 
wide-cuneate or rounded, eglandular, margin entire, 443-7 in. long, 2-3 in. 
wide, glabrous; main nerves 5-8 on each side, slender; reticulation 
distinct; petiole ?-1} in. long, glabrous, thickened at the apex; 
stipules united in an ochrea, sheathing tiie bud, caducous, leaving 
annular scars. Flowers in terminal racemes, 3-34 in. long; bracts 
caducous, leaving a scar like the stipular, each enclosing 2-3 male 
flowers ; rhachis finely puberulous; pedicel glabrous or very sparingly 
puberulous, $ in. long. Male: Calyx ovoid, closed in bud, } in. across, 
é in. long, apiculate, splitting into 2-3 valvate segments, glabrous, 
thinly membranous. Petals 5, contorted-imbricate, obovate, obtuse. 
Stamens 4-seriate, 5 to each whorl ; base of receptacle surrounded by 5 
extra-staminal glands, alternating with stamens of lowest whorl and 
with the petals. Female flowers and fruit not seen. 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Quintas, 130! 
The absence of glands from the base of the leaf and the existence of connate, ochreate, 
bud-enclosing stipules, which are very caducous and in falling leave a circular scar, 
give colour to the suggestion made by the authors of this species, that this may 
possibly prove not to be a Grossera, with which genus the male flowers, however, 
agree very closely in structure. From the other two species the racemose in place 
of paniculate male flowers, the eglandular leaves and the ochreate stipules amply 
distinguish it. 
1, Manniophyton africanum, Wiill. Arg. Add: Mildbr, Wiss. 
Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. ii. 451. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: various localities, Mildbraed, 2278, 2957, 
3004. 
1. Crotonogyne Preussii, Pax. 
In Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Acalyph. Chrozophor. 113, this species, in 
which the male petals are free, is treated as generically distinct from those species 
which the male petals are united. In the Pflanzenreich, C. Preussii is associated 
with C. manniana, Miill. Arg.; all the other species described in this work at 
pp. 821-826 being treated as members of a new genus Neomanniophyton, Pax, l.c. 115. 
Since, however, see p. 822 supra, the male petals in C. manniana are united, the 
species in question are members of the genus Crotonogyne, Miill. Arg.; the proposed 
genus Neomanniophyton, Pax, is invalid; and, if it be necessary, owing to the existence 
of C. Preussii, Pax, to establish a new genus, it is for this last-mentioned plant 
that a new generic name must be provided. Probably, however, a sectional position 
is an adequate recognition of the status of C. Preussii. 
-§ 13. Crotonogyne strigosa, Prain. Add: Neomanniophyton 
ledermannianum, Pax & K. Hoffm, in Engl. Pflanzenr, Euphorb.- 
Acalyph. Chrozophor. 116. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Lom, Ledermann, 6468 ! 6476. 
