Drypetes. \ cxxii. euphorbiace^ (hutchinson). 086 



21. D. stipularis, Hutchinson. A small tiee 15 ft. high; young 

 branchlets deeply grooved, sparingly setulose ; inteinodes lJ-2 in. long. 

 Leaves oblong or oblong-elliptic, acutely cuspidate-acuminate, slightly 

 cuneate and unequal at the base, one half of the blade produced 1 lin. 

 below the other, 6-12 in. long, 2-3 J in. broad, subentire, rigidly 

 membranous, closely reticulate, glabrous and shining on both surfaces ; 

 lateral nerves 7-10 on each side, arcuate, distinctly looped and reticulate 

 some distance from the margin, distinct on both sides, more prominent 

 below; tertiary nerves very few, reticulate; petiole I J- 3 lin. long, 

 sparingly setulose ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, almost glabrous, 

 3—4 lin. long, I J lin. broad. Male flowers not known. Female fascicles 

 produced on the old wood ; bracts ovate, pubescent ; pedicel about 

 2 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals orbicular, about 2 lin. in diam., coriaceous, 

 glabrous except at the membranous minutely ciliolate margin. Disk 

 cupular, \ lin. high, nearly enveloping the ovary, glabrous, 5-lobed ; 

 lobes quadrangular, crenulate at the top, ^ lin. broad. Ovary depressed, 

 nearly hidden by the stigmas and disk, glabrous ; stigmas 2, sessile, 

 very large, reniform, entire, yellow, glabrous, completely covering the 

 top of the ovary. Fruit not known. — Cyclostemon sfipularis, Miill. Arg. 

 in Flora, 1864, 531, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 484 ; Pax in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxxiii. 279. 



lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea: Mount John, on the River Kongni, Mann, 

 1780! 



22. D. Henriquesii, Hutchinson. A tree; young branchlets 

 adpressed-pubescent. Leaves lanceolate or oblong, somewhat caudate- 

 acuminate, acute and slightly oblique at the base, 4-4| in. long, 1-1 J in. 

 broad, coriaceous, glabrous, shining, reticulate. Female flowers pedi- 

 cellate ; pedicels thick, about J-| in. long in the fruiting stage. Styles 

 2, dilated and bilobed at the apex. Fruit adpressed, grey-pubescent. — 

 Cyclostem n Ilenriquesii, Pax in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 158, 



3bower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas: Ro(;a S. Nicolau, 3000 ft., Moller. 



23. D. Afzeliiy Hutchinson. A tree about 40 ft. high ; branchlets 

 glabrous. Leaves oblong-elliptic, caudate-acuminate, subcuneate and 

 unequal-sided at the base, 4-G in. long, 2-2i in. broad, distinctly 

 reticulate on both surfaces, margin entiie or slightly undulate, 

 glabrous and shining on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 5-G on each side, 

 more or less distinctly looped and branched some distance from the 

 margin ; "petiole 2-3 lin. long, wrinkled, glabrous; stipules not seen, 

 probably small. Male flowers not known. Female flowers produced 

 from the old wood ; pedicel J in. long (in the fruiting stage J in. long), 

 minutely puberulous,- at length glabrous. Sepals orbicular, glabrous. 

 Disk cupular, pilose. Ovary 2-celled, pubescent. Fruit oblong-ellip.soid, 

 about 8 lin. long and 7 lin. broad, brownish-pubescent; exocarp cru5.ta- 

 ceous, I lin. thick ; endocarp yellow, rather thin. — Cyclostemon Afzelii, 

 Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 520, and xxxiii. 279. 



upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Jopihun, Smythe, 236 ! and without precise 

 locality, Afzelius ! 



