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abave, and a distinctly ‘iphier calyx-lobe in an 
forms. ‘To one of these groups belongs C viel apstiet A. Juss., 
to the other belongs C. Brocchiana, each of the two 
i y ith 
sessile, the other with stipitate hairs. It is not denied that 
Schweinfurth, Miller and Pax and Hoffman may be right m 
referring the first form to C. Brocchiana. But it 1s at least cer- 
is part of C. Ss 
groups of authors be justified in their action, it follows that C. 
Brocchiana is merely a form of one widespread and somewhat 
variable African species. 
At the same time the two extreme forms Croton seed ; 
‘Vahl, and Croton macrocalyz, gee are so unlike e other 
that what in the ‘ Flora of Tropical Africa’ was regarded as 
being Visiani’s type must be relegated to the gee of a variety. 
i, ag Oh ke folia pallide viridia, omnia 
distincte petio iolats basi 10 tundata 
vel cola ca th Joint 
segmenta capes aequilonga 
Indumentum pnnosedoccosim pili 
longe stipitatis ... 
Indumentum nunc velutinum nunc 
ressum ens sessilibus vel 
: subsessilibus 
Heterophylla; folia sa trate “ita, 
. 10. OC. Brocchiana. 
. 108. »» var. intermedia. 
: cis — segmenta capaci bre- 
Indomentin adpressum pilis ae 
Indumentum ze annoso-floccosum ee 
stipitatie : ms 
11. U, senegalensis. 
1b. 5, var. lanigera. 
10. penteg Brocchiana, Vis. Pl. quaed. Aegyp 
Nub. p 2 [icon. ob eee prsetarmisionem im- 
g- 
rf.] M1836). Hornotina herbacea, diuti ticosa, prostrata ; 
colia omnia ambitu similia, distincte palates palliae yiridia ; 
calycis feminei segm capsulis aequilonga.—Broun, Cat. 
enta 
Sud. Fl. Pl. p. 72 (1906) ; Pax et K. Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenr. 
