624 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE^ (HUTCHINSON). [Cleistanthvs. 



IJ lin. broad at the base, tomentellous outside. Petals very minute, 

 elliptic. Disk short and thick, hairy at the top Filaments almost free, 

 1 lin. long; anthers J lin. long. Rudimentary ovary very small, 

 pubescent. Female flowers : Sepals and disk as in the male. Petals 

 larger, oblong. Ovary rusty-tomentose ; styles thick, rusty-tomentose, 

 multitid and slightly split down the inner side. 



Upper Guinea. Caraeroons : Bipinde, Zenker, 2262 ! 2264a ! 



5. C. polystacli3nis, Hook, ex Planch, in Hook. Ic. PL t. 779. A 

 shrub; flowering-branchlets slender, rusty-tomentose or pubescent 

 when young Leaves oblong-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, subcaudate- 

 acuminate, acute at the base, 2-3 in. long, J-lJ in. broad; acumen 

 3-6 lin. long, coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces; lateral nerves 6-9 

 on each side, looped ; petiole 1--2 lin. long, pubescent. Flowers dioe- 

 cious. Male racemes axillary, up to | in. long ; axis and pedicels rusty- 

 pubescent ; bracts oblong or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, H-2 lin. long, 

 densely pubescent ; pedicels up to H lin. long. Sepals linear-oblong, 

 subacute, rusty-pubescent outside, 2h lin. long. Petals lanceolate. 

 Filaments united for half their length ; anthers 1 lin. long. Disk 

 almost enclosing the staminal column, pubescent. Rudimentary ovary 

 3-partite ; segments pubescent. Female flowers : Sepals, petals and 

 disk as in the male. Ovary densely rusty-tomentose ; styles bipartite, 

 tomentose, branches often bitid. Fruit subglobose ; exocarp slightly 

 wrinkled, dull, glabrescent ; endocarp horny. — Benth. in Hook. Niger 

 Fl. 512, t. 36 ; Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 504. C. angolensis, 

 Miill. Arg. I.e. 505 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 955. Bridelia poly- 

 stachya, Baill. Etud. Euphorb. 584. Kaluhabiiritnghos angolensis and 

 K. polystachyus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii, 607. 



Upper Oulnea. Sierni Leone: near Madina, -S'co^^-^/^io^, 5597 ! and without 

 precise locality, Whifjield I Cameroons : Lolodorf, Standi, 126 ! 



Xiower Culnea. Spanish Guinea: Makak, Tessmann, 327! Makonanam,' 

 Tessmann, 328! Angola: Puiigo Andongo; in the less dense forests between 

 Pungo Andongo and Luxillo, Welwitsch, 353 1 between Catete and Luxillo, 

 Welwitsch, 354 ! 



6. C. libericus, N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 113. 

 Branchlets slender, grey, glabrescent. Leaves oblong or elliptic- 

 oblong, caudate-acuminate, obtuse or broadly cuneate at the base, 2J- 

 3J in. long, 1-1 J in. broad, glabrous on both surfaces; acumen linear, 

 obtuse, 7-9 lin. long, | lin. broad in the middle; lateral nerves 4-5 on 

 each side, arcuate but not or only indistinctly looped, uppermost nerve 

 prolonged into the acumen. Racemes J-1 in. long, rusty -puberulous ; 

 bracts minute ; pedicels up to 1 J lin. long. Sepals oblong, subacute, 

 1| lin. long, rusty-puberulous on the outside. Petals linear, scarcely 

 J lin. long. Disk cupular, undulate or slightly toothed, pubescent to- 

 wards the top. Anthers subsessile, 1 lin. long. Rudimentary ovary 

 3-partite, pubescent. Female flowers not seen. — Stapf in Johnston, 

 Liberia, ii. 648. 



Upper Guinea. Liberia: Sinoe- Basin, Whi/te! 



