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Rami teretes, albo-pubescentes. Folia lineari-lanceolata, sessilia, 
spinuloso-acuminata, 4-5 cm. longa, 6-8 mm. lata, subcoriacea, 
utrinque albo-pubescentia, marginibus spinosa. Inflorescentia ter- 
minalis vel lateralis, congesta, multiflora, albo-pubescens ; bracteae 
steriles lineari-lanceolatae, spinuloso-acuminatae, 1'2 cm. longae, 
4 mm. latae, pubescentes, fere integrae, fertiles bracteolaeque lineares, 
spinuloso-acuminatae, 2 cm. longae, 4 mm. latae, albo-pubescentes, 
marginibus spinulosae. Calycis lobi 4; anticus oblongo-lanceolatus, 
apice bilobaius, quinquedentato-spinulosus, 1*°7 cm. longus, 6 mm. 
latus, pubescens; posticus oblongo-lanceolatus, apice tridentatus, 
2:2 cm. longus, 6 mm. latus, pubescens ; laterales lineares, apice 
spinuloso-acuminati, 1°7 cm. longi, 2 ati, pubescentes. 
Corollae tubus 1 cm. longus, glaber ; limbus trilobatus, lobo inter- 
medio minore, 1°7 em. longus, 1 cm. latus, pubescens, caeruleus. 
Stamina 4, filamentis 5 mm, longis glabris ; antherae 5 mm. longae, 
staminum anticorum lobis fertilibus quam sterilibus tertia parte 
longioribus ; pollinis granula longe ellipsoidea, circiter 40 pu longa, 
25 zdiametro. Ovarium 3 mm. altum, 1°5 mm. diametro, glabrum ; 
stylus 1-3 em. longus, glaber, breviter aequaliterque bifidus. 
Tropica, Arrica. British East Africa: Guasa Nyiro; 
“among quartz,’ Lion Camp, Maurice S. Evans, 754 
1400. Cleistanthus gahonensis, Hutchinson [Huphorbiaceae- 
Phyllantheae] ; affinis C. bipindensi, Pax, sed floribus subsessilibus, 
discis minoribus et tenuioribus, staminibus numerosioribus, antheris 
majoribus subsessilibus differt. 
Arbor 6-10 m. alta ; rami breviter pubescentes ; ramuli juniores 
patuli, angulares, pubescentes vel demum fere glabri. Folia oblonga 
vel oblongo-elliptica, subacute caudato-acuminata, acumine circiter 
2 cm. longo, basi rotundata, 5°5-11 em. lon a, 3-5 cm. lata, 
chartacea vel tenuiter coriacea, saepe supra glauca, subtus pallide 
viridia, utrinque glabra et opaca, nervis lateralibus utrinque 4-6 
arcuatis, nervis tertiariis gracilibus subparallelis crebris distinctis ; 
petioli circiter 4 mm. longi, transverse rugosi, breviter pubescentes ; 
stipula non visae. Flores monoici, axillares, 3-4-fasciculati, 
Q solitarii, ceteri S, omnes subsessiles. Flores 3 : Sepala ovato- 
lanceolata, subobtusa, 5 mm. longa, 2 mm. lata, extra dense rufo- 
tomentella, intra glabra. ste oblanceolata, subacuta, 1°5 mm. 
‘ ascus parvus, carnosus, pubescens. 
Stamina 7-10 ; filamenta bec Viatisia: antheraé 2°5 ae longae, 
glabrae. Ovarii rudimentum dense rufo-villosum. Flores Q : 
us, 
multifidi. Ca 
dense rufo-villosa et cris : oe. 
ee u 2 : 
nitidula. pe pubescentia. Semina 7 mm longa, 
Troricat AFrica. Gaboon: ne; ibrevi 
Klaine; 8499, S438. aboon: neighbourhood of Libreville, 
he species is remarkably similar to C. bipindensis, Pax, from 
which it = scarcely be separated except by dissection and com- 
‘parison of the flowers. It differs in its subsessile flowers, smaller 
and thinner male and female disk 
: $ 
larger, subsessile anthers, <E™ gicapeot ni comet asp = 
