746 cxxii. EUPnoRBiACE.^<: (hutciiinson). [liicinodendron. 



Upper Guinea. Siena Leone: liiij^ru Kiver, J/awM, 825 ! French (luinea : 

 Fouta Jallou, Heiidelot, 857! (iold Coast: near Janbiii, Johnson, 635! Abm-i, 

 Johnson^ 448! Soutlieni Nigeria: Calabar district, WiUianis^ 6! La<?os; 

 Yoruba, SchlecMer, 12321! Cameroons : \V\\n\\([Q, Zenker, 1684! 2287! 2323! 

 2796! 3442! 3711! and without precise locality. Mansjield ! Preuss, 1158; 

 Schorkopf, 24; Schullze, 80; Winkler, 675. Fernando Po, Mann, 229 ! 



Wile Ziand. Uganda : Sendiki Forest, Daive, 637 ! Ikulongo Forest, Baice, 

 802! 1012! 



I.ower Guinea. Gaboon : Libreville, Klaine, 02, 246 ! 568 ! 980 ! Spanish 

 Guinea: Mandok, Te.tsmann, ^51 \ 840! Angola: (iolungo Alto, Welwifsc//, 4i^3l 

 Cazengo, Welivif.sc//, 444 ! Go.sstveiler, 4898 ! 



Mozamb. Distr. (Jernian Fast Africa : Usanibara ; Dorema, Schejper,2{)l \ 

 Portuguese Fast Africa: Quilimane district, Sim, 6394. 



2. R. Rautanenii, Sckinz in Bull. Jlerh. Jioiss. vi. 744. A large 

 tree witli a broad crown ; branchlets stout, whitish- or reddish-tomentel- 

 ious when young, at length puberulous. Leaves digitately 5-7-foliolate ; 

 leaflets stalked, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, obtuse, rounded or truncate 

 and unequal-sided at the base, 1^-4J in. long, lj--i in. broad, glandular- 

 denticulate, membranous or subchartaceous, rather dark-coloured above, 

 hoary below, stellate-puberulous or tomentellous on both surfaces ; 

 lateral nerves 7-11 on each side, looped and branched near the margin, 

 prominent below ; tertiary nerves subparallel, rather lax ; petiole 2~'> 

 in. long, about 1 J lin. in diam., whitish-tomentellous ; petiolules |-| in. 

 long; stipules small, suborbicular, toothed. Male panicles slender, few- 

 flowered, up to 6 in. long, whitish- or pinkish-tomentellous ; branches 

 spreading, up to 2J in. long; bracts subulate, about Ij lin. long; 

 pedicels -J lin. long. Sepals ovate, obtuse, '2^ lin. long, IJ lin. broad, 

 yellow-tomentellous. Petals connate nearly their full length, :'>-:)J lin. 

 long, glabrous. Disk-glands quadrangular, glabrous, about I lin. broad. 

 Stamens 15-10 ; filaments 2 lin. long, hairy in the lower part; anthers 

 J lin. long. Female panicles much shorter than the male, very few- 

 tiowered : Sepals 4^ lin. long, ;5 lin. broad, l^etals the same length as 

 the sepals. Disk irregularly toothed, glabrous. Ovary densely tomen- 

 tose ; style bilobed, fleshy, lobes with a wrinkled stigmatic surface on 

 the inner face. Fruit ellipsoid, about 1 J in. long. Seeds not seen. — 

 Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Cluytiea?, 4«, fig. 17, A-D. 



Xiower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Olukonda, Haidonen, 225! 

 232! 233! Schiu:, 2074; Neitsas, Binter, 669; Gonis, Uinler, 1348; Caprivi 

 Peak, Seiner, 35. 



Mozamb. Blstr. Rhodesia: Victoria Falls, Kirk! Broken HiU, So (/ers, 

 8638 ! and without precise locality, Allen, 191 ! 



38. CROTON, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 29?>. 



Flowers moncecious or more rarely ditecious. Petals usually present 

 in the males, often absent from or rudimentary in the females. Male 

 flowers : Sepals o, rarely 4 or 6, valvate or slightly imbricate. Petals 

 equal to the sepals or shorter. Disk -glands opposite the sepals, small 



