TABULA 3008. 
CYRTOGONONE ARGENTEA, Prain. 
EUPHORBIACEAE. ‘Tribus CROTONEAE. 
C. argentea, Prain in Kew Bull. 1911, p. 232, Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. 
—Euphorb. Acalyp. Chrozophor. p. 111 (1912) et in Dyer, Fl. Trop. 
Afr, vol. vi. pars 1, p. 815 (1912) ; species unica. 
5 otos 3-7 cm. longos emittens; ramuli cymas 3-7 sufful- 
clentes ; cymae 3-7-florae pedunculis 3-5 m ngis; bracteae 
ovatae, lanceolatae, 1-1-5 longae ;_ pedicelli 4-5 mm. longi 
um 
omnino extra, ultimo omnino intus, orbicularia, glabra, albida. 
Stamina 27-30; filamenta glabra, libera, 3 mm. longa; antherae 
1 mm. longae locellis connectivo latiusculo affixis, introrsim spectantes ; 
‘glandulae receptaculi omnes juxta staminales. Ovarii rudimentum 0. 
—Crotonogyne argentea, Pax in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. xxxiii. p- 283 
(1903). 
2359, 3078, 3668; Bijoka, Zenker, 3893, 3894. Lower Guinea 
Spanish Guinea, Nkolentangan, 450 m., Tessmann, 28. 
receptacular glands, that it is necessary to treat it as the type of 
distinct genus. The female flowers and fruit are still unknown.— 
D. Pra. 
Fie. 1, apex of petiole and base of leaf ; 2, male flower-bud; 3, scale from 
male calyx; 4, male flower, young, the petals laid open; 5, male androecium, 
fully developed; 6, two stamens with three receptacular glands, All enlarged. 
