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EUPHOKDIACE-E (Prain). 



l^Croton. 



6. C. gratissimus (Burch. Trav. S. Afr. ii. 263) ; shrub or small 

 tree, 4-20 ft. high; twigs slender, angular, covered with silvery 

 and rusty scales when young ; leaves fragrant, alternate, distinctly 

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

 or acute, emarginate, base minutely narrow-cordate, margin entire, 



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wide, pale green, quite glabrous, polished 

 above, densely clothed with silvery and rusty scales intermixed 

 beneath ; lateral nerves 10-12 on each side, neither impressed above 

 nor raised beneath ; petiole 1-1 in. long, densely clothed with 



silvery and rusty scales with basal glands usually very minute or 

 absent and when distinct then ahvays sessile and attached to upper 

 portion of petiole slightly below its attachment to the blade ; 

 stipules subulate, very short ; racemes androgynous, up to 21 in- 

 long, at the ends of shoots; rhachis densely silvery and rusty scaly; 



bracts subulate-lanceolate, scaly ; male pedicels 1 



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lin. lon^, 



Oxydedciy gratissima, 0. KmitzCy Jlei\ 



densely scaly; sepals ovate, obtuse, 1^ lin. long, coriaceous, outside 

 densely scaly, closely puberulous within ; petals ovate, as large as 

 sepals, outside scaly, margin villous, within glabrous ; disc-glands 

 thick, glabrous; stamens 10-15; filaments thinly pubescent below; 

 receptacle pilose ; female sepals as in the male ; petals oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, scaly outside, hairy within ; disc minute ; ovai'y 

 densely clothed with fringed scales ; styles 3, erect, very stout, each 

 2-lob(Hb glabrous ; capsule very slightly 3-lobed, ^ in. long, densely 

 scaly; seeds smooth. Sand, in Linnsea, xxiii. 119; BailL Adansonia, 

 iii. 154; MiilL Arg, in DC. Prodr. xv. li. 516; Sim, For, Fl Cape 

 Col 311 ; Prahi ui Dyer, Fl Trap, Afr.vi, i. 1051. 0. microhotrys, 

 Fax in Engl Jahrb, x. 35. 



Grn. Plil 61h 

 Kalahari Region : Griqualand West ; Klipfontein, BurcheU, 2154 ! 2G31 1 



Bechuanaland ; near the sources of the Ktiniman River, Burchellj 2493/i2 ! near 

 Kuriiman, 4200 ft., Marloth, 1078 ! Takun, Leniae. Transvaal ; Magaliesberg 

 Range, Btwle I Zeyher, 1513 ! Emjhr, 2704 ! Rhencster Poort, Nelson^ 9d I 

 Warmbath, Miss Lemdertz, 1367 1 Burtt-Davy^ 2185 ! 2623 ! 5565 ! Wonderboom 

 Poort, Galpin, 6989! Walmaran>:tad, Hall, 6081! near :^fazareth, 450i» ft., 

 ScJilecJitcv, 4478 ! 



Eastern Region : Natal ; near Grey town, 4000 ft., Wood, 10035 ! Drakenberg 

 Range, Wahlberr/, • " 



Also in Hereroland and in Tropical North-eastern Becliuannland. 



7. C. zambesicus (Miill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 483); large ^hrub 

 or small tree, 16-25 ft. high; twigs angular, covered with silvery 

 and rusty scales with or without an accompanying sparse stellate- 

 puLescence; leaves fragrant, alternate, distinctly to long-petioled, 

 firmly membranous, penninerved, elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse or 

 slightly narrowed to the apex, emarginate, base narrow shallowly 



cordate, margin entire, 2^-4j in. long. 



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wide. 



green 





labrous, dull above, densely clothed with silvery and a few rusty 

 scales beneath ; lateral nerves 12-14 a side, slightly impressed 

 above and raised beneath ; petiole ^-li in. long, densely silvery 

 lepidote and sometimes also sparingly stellate-pubescent with 2 

 usually distinctly stipitate glands underneath at point of attach- 



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