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Croton amabilis, 47 ull.-Arg. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,400 ft., Lugard, 33; Mrs. Lugard, 35. 
According to Mrs, Lugard’s note it is “a bushy tree up _ 
15 ft. high ; remains in bud all the dry season, looking quite dea 
and dried up, with the first rains it suddenly bursts into full ie 
flowers yellow.” According to Lugard :—“ A shrub 3-4 ft. high, 
flowers at the end of November; flowers yellowish-green, sweet 
scented.” 
Croton megalobotrys, Miill.-Arg. 
Lake River, Lugard, 17. 
A tree, attaining 30 ft. in height ; flowers green. 
Croton kwebensis, N. FE. Br. Frutex ramosus ; ramuli graciles, 
dense tomentosi. Folia petiolata, oblonga, elongato-ovata vel 
elliptico-oblonga, supra viridia, tenuiter stellato-pubescentia, subtus 
dense argenteo-lepidota. Racemi terminales, subfulvescenti-lepidoti. 
Flores pedicellati; imasculi plures, superiores ; ca yx pro unde 
5-lobus, lobis ovatis incurvato-patentibus intus glabris ; petala 
anguste oblanceolata, hirta, recurva 3 stamina 15: feminei in- 
feriores, pauci vel nulli; calyx infra medium 5-lobus, lobi oblongi, 
subacuti vel obtusi, intra pubescentes ; petala et stamina nulla; 
ovarium lepidotum ; styli 3-4, profunde bifidi, glabri 
colour. Flowers all male, or 1- 
shortly hairy on the inner surface and ciliate 
between the sepals ; stamens 15, some of them often with abortive 
anthers ; filaments slightly 
le. 
_ Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Lugard, 34 ; Mrs. Lugard, 41. 
Cephalocroto: mollis, K7, var. pilosa, Schinz, 
Kwebe Hills, 3,000 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 70. : 
A shrub, up to 4 ft. sgh 3 perianth green, stamens and stigmas 
yellow according to Mrs, ugard’s drawing. 
Claoxylon Virens, NV. E. Br. Fruter omnino molliter pub.scens. 
Folia breviter petiolata, ovata vel ceolata, obtuse acuta, su 
integra vel paucidentata. Racems masculi pedunculati, compacto- 
