Oroton,] EUPHORBiAOEif! (Prain). 415 



outside^ glabrous within ; petals narrow oblanceolate, obtuse or sub- 

 acute, ciliate and shortly pubescent w ithiii, glabrous outside ; dise- 

 glands minute ; stamens 15 ; filaments slightly hairy ; receptacle 

 pubescent ; female pedicels half as long as male or shorter ; female 

 calyx lobed only two-thirds its depth, scaly but hardly tomentose 

 outside, slightly pubescent within ; petals ; disc annular, thick, 

 glabrous ; ovary densely clothed Avith large orbictdar scales, but 

 "without stellate hairs ; styles 3-4, deeply 2-lobed, lobes linear, entire 

 or again 2-fid, incurved, glabrous ; capsule very faintly ii-lobed, ^- in. 

 long, densely scaly ; seeds ellipsoid, smooth. G, Menyltartii^ 

 HidcTuason in Dyer, FL Trop. Aft. vi. i. 753. C pulcJiellus, Miill. 

 Arg. in DO. Prodr, xv. ii. 572, partly and as regards ^//n. Klotzsch 

 only; not of BailL 0, kwehensis, N,E. Br, in Kew Bit.Ueiin, 1909, 

 140. Argyrodendron hicolor, Klotzsch in PeferSy Meise Mossamh. Bot. 

 102 : not Croton hicolor^ Boxh, 



Eastern Region: Natal ; on the Tugela River, Gerrard, l:iGO ! 

 Also in Tropical Africa. 



5. C. suhgratissimus (Praia in Kew Eulletin, 1913, 79); large 

 shrub or small tree, 16-25 ft, high; twigs slender, angled, covered 

 with silvery scales when young ; leaves fragrant, alternate, distinctly 

 to long-petioled, coriaceous, penninerved, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 emarginate, base minutely narrow-cordate, margin entire, 1^-3.] in. 

 long, |— 11 in. wide, pale green, dull and uniformly persistently 

 stellate-puberulous above, densely clothed with silvery scales with a 

 few rusty scales intermixed beneath; lateral nerves 12-14 a side, 

 neither impressed above nor raised beneath : petiole A-1^ in. long, 

 densely silvery and rusty lepidote, with 2 sessile glands underneath 

 at point of attachment with blade ; stipules subulate, usually short, 

 occasionally very long, scaly; racemes androg5'uous, 1-4 in. long, at 

 ends of shoots ; rliaehis densely silvery and rusty scaly ; bracts 

 subulate-lanceolate, scaly ; male pedicels 1-2 lin. long, densely scaly ; 

 sepals ovate, obtuse, ll lin. long, coriaceous, densely scaly outside, 

 closely puberulous within ; petals ovate, rather shorter than sepals, 

 scaly externally, margins villous, glabrous within ; disc-glands thick, 

 glabrous; stamens 15-20, filaments thinly pubescent below ; recep- 

 tacle pilose ; female sepals as in male ; petals oblong-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, scaly outside, hairy within ; disc minute ; ovary densely 

 clothed with fringed scales ; styles spreading, 6-8-partite, glabrous ; 

 capsule very slightly 3-lobed, I in. long, densely scaly ; seeds smooth. 

 Prain in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 1050. C. grafissimns, Pax hi 

 Engl, JaJtrb.x. 35, not of Bimh, 



Kailahari Region : BeohuanalauJ ; Lobatsi, Marloth, 3331 ! Transvaal ; 

 Wonderboom Poort, Eehmann^ 4552! Miss Leenchrtz, 270! Rogers, 233! BnrU- 

 ^I'lj, 1S49 ! Magalieyberg Range, Zeyher, 2767 ! Pretoria, Fehr, 54 I 



Also in Hereroland and Tropical North-west Bechuanland. 



Very nearly allied to C\ f/ratissi-jntts, Burch., which it most resembles in general 

 facies, and to C, zawhe&icus, Miili. Aig., which it most reseml^les as regards flowern, 

 l>ut equally distinct from both in ha\ing leaves which are persistently stellate- 

 puberulons above. 



