Croto7i.] "EUPHORBiACE.i: (Prain). 417 



ment with blade ; stipules subulate, usually short, occasionally very 

 long, scaly ; racemes androgynous^ 1-4 in. long, at ends of shoots ; 

 i^hachis densely silvery and rusty scaly ; bracts subulate-lanceolate, 

 scaly; male pedicels 1-2 lin. long, densely scaly; sepals ovate, 

 obtuse, 1^ lin. long, coriaceous, densely scaly outside, closely 

 puberulous within ; petals ovate, as large as sepals, scaly extern- 

 ally, margins villous, sparingly pilose within; disc-glands thick, 

 labrous ; 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 

 clad with fringed scales ; styles spreading, 4-6-partite ; segments 

 1-3-fid, glabrous above, puberulous on back below ; capsule dis- 

 tinctly 3-lobed, f in. long, densely scaly. MiilL Arg, in DC. Frodr. 



XV. ii. 515; Pax in Engl. Pfi. Osf-Afr, C, 237; De Wild. Etudes 

 FL Bas et Moyen-Congo, ii. 278 ; N, E. Br. in Keto Bidletin, 1909, 

 139 ; ITutcJiinson in Dyer^ FL Trap. Afr, vi, i, 758, (7, toelwit- 

 seliianus, Mull Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 338, and in DC, Prodr. 

 XV. ii. 515 ; Hlern in Cat Afr. PL Welw. i. 970 ; De Wild. <& Durand 

 in Bull Herh. Boiss. 2me ser. i. 47 ; TL (t HeL Durand, SylL FL 

 CongoL 481. C. Aniunesiij Pax in Engl. Jahrh, xxiii, 523, and i 

 Baum, Kunene-Samh. Exped. 282. C. amahilis^ K E. Br. in Krw 

 Bulletin^ 1909, 140; not of MiilL Arg. Oxydectes taelwitschiana, and 

 0. zamleslca, O. Kuntzey Bev. Gen. PL ii. 613. 



Kalahaei Region: Transvaal; Potgieters Rust, Miss LeendertZj 1428! 

 Eastern Rkgion : Natal; Tugela, Gerrard, 1460! Delagoa Bay; Ressano 

 Garcia, 1000 ft., Schkchter, 11938 t 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



Thia species occurs in Great Namaqualand, north of the Tropic and has been 

 collected aa far south as Rehoboth ; it may therefore yet be met with in our 

 "Western Region. It is nearly-allied to {7. gnUisshnus, Burch., and may be only a 

 luxuriant form of that plant, but can usually be readily distinguished by its larger 

 leaves, dull on the upper surface, with distinctly stipitate basal glands at the apex 

 of the petiole ; also to C. suhgratlssimus, Prain, but is very readily distinguished 

 therefrom by the glabrous upper surface of the leaves. 



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8. C. pseudopulchellus (Pax in Engl. Jalirb. xxxiv. 371); shrub, 

 6-12 ft. hio-h ; twiofs slender, covered with rust-coloured scales when 

 young ; leaves fragrant, subverticillatCj distinctly petioled, lirmly 

 papery, penninerved, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse and 

 slightly emarginate, l)ase rounded or wide-cuneate, margin entire, 

 i-2 in. long, ^-| in. wide, dark green, quite glabrous above, densely 

 clothed beneath with silvery scales and rusty scales intermixed ; 

 lateral nerves 9-12 on each side, slightly raised above, not visible 

 beneath ; petiole up to 1 in. long, scaly like undersurface of leaf 

 which is without glands at its attachment to the petiole ; stipules 

 itiinute, subulate; racemes androgynous, much abbreviated, forming 

 small dense corymbs, J in. across, at the tips of the shoots ; male 

 pedicels about |- in. long when flower opens ; sepals ovate, 1 lin. loni?, 

 coriaceous, densely scaly externally, the margins puberulous within ; 



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