Croto)i.] EUPHOKBiACE^ (Praiii). 41:5 



flowering twigs rusty stellate-puberulous ; leaves alternate, Jong- 

 petiolecl, thinly chartaceous, palmately 5-nerved at the base, midrib 



rr 



I 



4-jugately penninerved, ovate, rarely ovate-lanceolate; somewhat 

 caudate-acuminatej base rounded or slightly cordate, margin more 

 or less distinctly serrulate, l|-5 in. long, 1-4 in. wide, dark green, 

 labrous above, sparingly stellate-pubescent on the nerves beneath ; 

 I)etiole slender, 1-4 in. long, sparingly stellate-pubescent, with 2 

 very prominent glands at point of junction with blade ; stipules 

 linear, stellate-pubescent, caducous ; racemes androgynous^ up to 

 6 in. long, at ends of twigs, with many male flowers and a few 

 females accompanying throughout the raceme ; rhachis sulcate, 

 *ather closely stellate-pubescent ; bracts subulate-lanceolate, several- 

 flowered; male pedicels 1-1| lin. long, female pedicels under 1 lin. 

 long ; male sepals 5, narrow-lanceolate, obtuse, 1 lin. long, membran- 

 ous, thinly stellate-pubescent externally ; petals 5, narrow oblong, as 

 long as sepals, glabrous externally, the tip and margin within white- 

 villous ; disc-glands small ; stamens 15-20 ; filaments slender, 

 glabrous ; receptacle villous ; female sepals like the males ; petals 

 rudimentary ; disc deeply 5-lobed, glabrous ; ovary tomentose with 

 stellate hairs ; styles 2-partite to the base, the segments linear, 

 glabrous; capsule subglobose, -] in. across, shortly stellate-pubescent ; 

 seeds subglobose, smooth. Sond. in Ltnmea, xxiii. 120 ; BailL 

 Adansonia, iii. 154 ; Mull Arg, in BG. Prodr. xv. ii. 602 ; Sim, For. 

 FL Cape Col, 310, t. 138; S, Moore in Joiirn. Linn. Sac. xl. 195; 

 Hutchinson in Dyer, FL Trop, Afr, vi. i. 771. , C. Stuhlmanni^ Pax 

 in Engl. Jahrb, xix. 80, Oxydectes sylvatica, 0. KiintzCy Bev. Gen, 

 PL ii. 613. Claoxylum (?) spliserocarpum^ 0, Ktintze, Lc, iii. ii. 

 284. 



Coast Region : Komgha Div. ; Coast Kloofs from the Kei River westwards to 

 East London, Flanagan^ 2528 ! near the mouth of tlie Kei River, Flanagan, 

 2368 ! SchlecMcr, 6203! 



^Eastern Region;. Pondolaud ; St. Julias, Sua, 2435! Xatal ; woods by the 

 ITiulaas River, Krauss, 142! near Durban, Gueinzius 821 Gerrard, 1-18! Woody 

 10929 ! Mrs. Saunders ! Inanda, Wood, 758 ! Berea, Wood, 7887 ! 1154S ! 

 Winkel Spruit, Steyner in Iltrh. Wood, 11901! Clairmont, Kuntxe\ Dumisa, 

 i^OO ft., Rudatis^ 522 ! Zululand ; " very common/' Gerrard & McKen, 1 ! 



Also in Eastern Tropical Africa. 



The bark of this tree is used in Gazalaud a,s a fish-poison Qloore), 



3. C. Gubouga (S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot. xl. 196); tree 

 15-50 ft. high; branches cylindric, distinctly lenticellate, glabrous; 

 flowering twigs sparingly grey stellate-pubescent, soon glabrous; 

 leaves alternate, long-petioled, thinly chartaceous, palmately 

 S-nerved at the base, midrib 3-5-jugately penninerved, ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, usually caudate-acuminate, base truncate or 

 slightly cordate, margin irregularly crenate-serrate, 2-41 in. long, 



2| in. wide, medium green, at tirst sparingly stellate-pubescent, 

 ^ut soon quite glabrous and finely rather closely verruculose above, 

 sparsely grey stellate -pubescent with soft long-rayed hairs beneath ; 

 petiole slender, |-1| in. long, at first sparingly softly stellate- 



