I 



414 .EuniORBiACE.^: (Prain). [Croton 



pubescent, but soon glabrous, with 2 very prominent glands yV^aV ^^• 

 below point of junction with blade ; stipules linear-lanceolate, 

 sparingly stellate-pubescent, caducous ; racemes androgynous, usually 

 2.1-3 in. sometimes up to 5 in. long, at ends of twigs, with 12-20 

 male flowers in the upper third and 8-12 females in the lower third ; 

 i-hachis angular^ rather closely to sparingly grey stellate-pubescent ; 

 bracts linear-lanceolate, stellate-pubescent ; male pedicels 2 lin, 

 long, female pedicels l^-l^ lin. long ; male sepals 5, oblong-ellip- 

 soid, obtuse, 1-^^ lin. long, membranous, glabrous on both sides, 

 rather densely ciliate in the upper half ; petals 5, narrow elliptic, 

 2 lin. long, glabrous externally, densely ciliate ; disc-glands fleshy, 

 glabrous; stamens 15-16, filaments slender, glabrous; receptacle 

 villous; female sepals 5, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 2i lin. long, shortly 

 ciliate in the upper half and with a few stellate hairs in the centre 

 externally ; petals obsolete ; disc crenulate, fleshy, glabrous ; ovary 

 densely white-tomentose with stellate hairs; styles deeply 2-partite, 

 the segments linear and again 2-partite nearly to the base, glabrous, 

 ileshy, slightly wrinkled ; capsule broadly ellipsoid, not lobed, 1^ in. 

 long, |-1 in. across, when ripe shortly sparingly stellate-puberulous 

 or nearly glabrous ; seeds oblong-ellipsoid, | in. long, -^- in. across, 

 testa dull, greyish-brown, smooth, HutcJunson hi Dtier^ FL Trop. 

 Afr, vi. i, 766. 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; Lydenburg Diat,, Selabi, on the banks of the 

 Olifants River, IGOO ft., Pole-Evans, H. 17024! 



Eastern Region: Portuguese East Africa; Louren^o Marques, in the loW- 

 veld north of Delagoa Bay, Mahevhj, 



-Vlso in Eastern Tropical Afnca. 



I'he bark and the seeds of tliis tree are said to be effective as remedies in cases 

 of malarial bilious lexer (Malt rJfj). In the open C Guboai/a Ls usually a shrub 

 or small tree 15-SO ft. high, in sheltered s-pots a large tree':^0-50 it. high (PoU- 

 Evans). Its nearest ally in our area is C. sylvaticim^ HocLst., which hjis, however, 

 iiuich smaller fruits. The capsule appears to be indehiscent and is usually 2-seede(l, 

 sometimes 1 -seeded. In Gazaland the bark is used as a fish-poison {Moore), 



4. C, Menyharti (Pax in Bulb Herb. Boiss. vi. 7:13); shrub, 3^6 



ft. high ; twigs slender, at first densely stellate-tomentose, at length 

 glabrous; leaves alternate, *• very shortly petioled, thinly papery, 

 penninerved, oblong-ovate or oblong-elliptic, obtuse and slightly 

 emarginate, base shallow-cordate and slightly unequal, margin entire, 



i-2 in. long, \ 



^ ^ permanenuj 



stellate-pubescent above, densely clothed beneath with silvery scales 

 and also thinly stellate-pubescent ; lateral nerves 6-9 on each 

 side, very slightly impressed above and distinctly raised beneath ; 

 petiole about 1 lin. long, densely stellate-pubescent and sparingly 

 scaly, without glands at p>int of attachment with leaf ; stipules 

 minute, subulate ; racemes androgynous, |— 2^ in. long, 5-15- 

 flowered at the ends of lateral shoots, rhachis densely stellate- 

 tomentose and scaly ; male pedicels ^-^ in. long ; sepals ovate, 1 lin 



long, coriaceous, sparingly stellate-pubescent and densely scal> 



