Celoiiimn,] EUPiioi^BrACE.^: (rrain). 495 



Trees or shrubs, everywhere glabrous ; leaves alternate, entire or toothed, 

 gland-dottedj often vesicular; stipules connate, very caducous ; flowei-s small, in 

 leaf-opposed sessile or subsessile cymose glomerules ; pedicels very short. 



DlsTKiB. Species about 18, widespread in the tropics of the Eastern 

 Hemisphere from East and South Africa to India, Malaya and New Guinea. 



Leaves acute or acuminate, 2 in. long or longer, their 



margins sharply spinulose-serrate throughout ... (1) serratum. 



Leaves obtuse, usually under 2 in. long, their margins 

 coarse bluntly toothed at the apex only, elsewhere 



entire (2) africanum. 



1. G. serratum (Pax & K. Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb. 

 ■Crelon. 23) ; a small tree, everywhere glabrous ; leaves short-petioledj 

 oblong or obovate-oblong, acute or acuminate, base cuneate, margin 

 spinulose-serrate throughout, 2-3 in. long, l|-lf in. wide, sub- 

 ■coriaoeous, nerves rather faint, I'eticulate, peJlucid-dotted and some- 

 what vesicular ; petiole over 1 lin. long ; flowers dioecious, fascicled, 

 male few, their pedicels very short ; male sepals 1 lin, long, with 

 <^aliate margin and a dorsal gland ; stamens 8 ; receptacle glandular ; 

 female ilowers and fruit not seen. G. adenopliornm^ Sim^ For, FL 

 Port. E, Afr. 105; not of MiiU. Arg. 



Eastern Region: Delagoa Bay; Umbo'osi; 50 ft, Schlechter, 11722! Chope ; 

 ^ear Quisiqui, &im. 



Most nearly allied to G. zanziharense, MiilL Arg., but aeadily distiDgiiished hy 

 its spinulose-serrate leaves and its dicecious flowers. 



2. G. africanum {Mtlll. Arg. in DC, Prodr. xv. ii. 1129) ; a shrub or 



small tree, 6-20 ft. high, everywhere glabrous ; leaves short-petioled, 

 obovate, soineAvbat truncately obtuse, base cuneate, margin coarsely 

 toothed only at the apex, f-l| (rarely 2^) in. long, |-1 (very rarely 

 If) in. Avide, chartaceous, nerves prominent, reticulate, pellucid- 

 dotted ; petiole under 1 lin. long ; flowers dia^cious, fascicled, male 

 numerous, their pedicels 1| lin, long; female pedicels in fruit about 

 i in. long; male sepals 1 lin, long; stamens 12-14; female sepals 

 unequal, the outer 3 the smallest ; hypogynous disc often with 5-6 

 minute subulate staminodes ; styles short, recurved, 2-fid ; capsule 

 3clymous, softly coriaceous, opening loculicidally ; seed subglobose, 

 glabrous. Sim, For. FL Cape Col. 318, L 103, fig. 7, and in For. 

 Fl Port. K Afr. 100 ; Fax in Engl Fjinn^enr. Efq)hork Gelon, 21. 

 Ceratojyhonis afrlcauus, Sand, in Linnsea, xxiii. 121. Suregada 

 Ceratophora, Baill, Adansonia, iii. 154. S. afrimna, (9. Kuntze, Rev. 

 Gen. PI 11.619. 



Coast Regio.x : Uiteuliage Div. ; Uitenliage, PHoi^ ! AUvaiiy Div. ; Kowei 

 River, Lelow 500 ft., Ecklm, cO Zeyher, 69 ! East Loudon Dir. ; Quiguey, 50 ft., 

 Oalpin, 3337 ! East London, Rattray, 671 ! Komglia Div. ; woods near Komgha, 

 2000 ft,, Flanauan, 63! 



Central Region : Somerset Ea^t Div. ; Somerset, Mm Boicker I 



Eastern Region : Transkei ; Kentani, 400-1000 ft., Mu& Pcylev, 1120? 12i>PI 



1260! Tembuland; Perie Forest, 2500 ft., Galpin, 5911 ! Natal; near Durban, 



<^ueinziuB, 104! Thode in Herb. Wood, 4724! Notote, Gerrard,nSi\ Delagoa 



Bay ; Ressano Garcia, 1000 ft., Schhchttr, 11932 1 Sim ; Maputa, Stm ; Chope, ^ivu 



