Drypetes.] cxxii. EUPHORBiACEifi (hutchinson). 677 



Flowers sessile or subsessile. 



Latenil nerves of the lesives elonj^afed, 

 running' subi)anillel with the marj^in 



in their upper half .... 31. 2). spinoso-denfafa, 

 Lateriil nerves short, anastomosing 



freely some distance from the margin 32. D. major. 



1. D. laciniata^ Hutchinson. A shrub 9-12 ft. high ; branchlets 

 subterete, clothed with velvety pubescence, glabrescent when older. 

 Leaves oblong or narrowly elliptic, acuminate or abnormally emar- 

 ginate, somewhat rounded at th * base, very unequal, one half of the 

 blade produced 1-1 J lin. below the other, 4-7 in. long, l|-2Jin. broad, 

 papery or sligiitly coriaceous, obscurely serrate in the upper third, other- 

 wise entire, glabrous or nearly so on both surfaces excluding the nerves; 

 midrib densely pubescent below ; lateral nerves 7-8 on each side, im- 

 pressed above, very prominent below, looped and branched a considerable 

 distance from the margin ; tertiary nerves and veins much branched, 

 lax and prominent on the lower surface ; petiole stout, about 2 lin. long, 

 velvety-pubescent ; stipules laciniate, including the segments J-| in. 

 long, pubescent ; segments subulate or filiform, about 3 lin. long. Male 

 flowers in small fascicles of about 10 in the axils of the leaves of the 

 young branchlets ; bracts subulate, nearly 1 lin. long, densely pubescent ; 

 pedicel 1 lin. long, sparingly pubescent. Sepals 5, 2 often more or 

 less connate, rounded or very broadly ovate, brown-tomentose outside, 

 adpressed-pubescent within, IJ lin. long, strongly imbricate. Stamens 

 5 ; filaments glabrous, a little shorter than the sepals ; anthers broad. 

 Disk-glands transversely oblong, pilose towards the top on the inner 

 face. Centre of the flower densely brown-setose. Female flowers in 

 few-flowered fascicles arising from the older branchlets, subsessile. 

 Sepals 4, rounded, about 2 lin. broad, tomentose. Disk very thick and 

 leathery, 4-lobed ; lobes opposite the sepals, ovate, rounded at the ends, 

 long-pilose towards the base of the ovary. Young ovary not seen. 

 Young fruit ovoid, 2-lobed, subcordate at the base, J in. long, 4 lin. 

 broad, hispid. — Cyclostemon laciniatus^ Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 278. 

 upper Guinea. Cameroons : Bipinde, Zenker, 1068 ! 1879 ! 3570 ! 



2. D. yerrucosa, Hutchinson. A tree 50-65 ft. high ; branchlets 

 pubescent. Leaves oblong-elliptic or lanceolate-elliptic, shortly acumi- 

 nate, rounded and unequal-sided at the base, 5-7 in. long, 2J-3 in. 

 broad, thinly chartaceous, spinulose-dentate, glabrous on both surfaces 

 except on the pubescent midrib below, shining above, duller below ; 

 lateral nerves 6-8 on each side, spreading, looped and anastomosing freely 

 some distance from the margin, slightly impressed above, prominent 

 below ; veins distinct on both sides, especially on the lower ; petiole 

 3-3 lin. long, finely wrinkled, puberulous ; stipules laciniate, about \ in. 

 long, segments subulate. Male flowers not known. Female flowers 

 produced in fascicles from the old wood ; pedicel rather stout, J-| 

 in. long, sparingly puberulous, at length glabrescent. Sepals 5, sub- 

 Oibicular, coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, the margin minutely 



