Croton.'] cxxii. euphorbiace^ (hutchinson). 751 



digitately 3-5-partite, 1-4 in. long and broad ; segments oblanceolate 

 or obovate, gradually or more or less caudate-acuminate, narrowed to 

 the base, crenate or crenate-serrate, membranous, stellate-pubescent 

 or glabrescent on both surfaces ; petiole up to 4 in. long, sulcate, 

 pubescent or glabrous; stipules subulate-filiform, about H lin. long. 

 Flowers monojcious. Inflorescences axillary and terminal, slender, up 

 to 5 in. long, the lower half consisting of subsessile female flowers, the 

 upper part of much smaller males ; axis angular or sulcate, pubes- 

 cent. jVIale flowers : pedicel very slender, scarcely 1 lin. long ; bracts 

 2-flowered, lanceolate, about 1 lin. long, sparingly ciliate. Sepals 5, 

 elliptic, rounded at the apex, f lin. long, membranous, green in the 

 middle, transparent at the margins, glabrous. Petals 5, oblanceolate, 

 membranous, glabrous, a little shorter than the sepals. Stamens 10- 

 18 ; filaments glabrous ; anther-cells divergent. Receptacle glabrous. 

 Female flowers subsessile : Sepals 5, green and glabrous, linear-lanceo- 

 late, acute, 8 lin. long, f lin. broad, sparingly stellate-pubescent, ciliate 

 and with a few gland-tipped hairs on the margin towards the base. 

 Petals represented by a hair, scarcely reaching one-third the length of 

 the sepals. Disk shortly 5-lobed, glabrous. Ovary stellate-pubescent 

 and setose ; styles 3, free to the base, glabrous or setulose, 6-7-lobed to 

 a little below the middle ; lobes linear or almost filiform. Capsule about 

 3J lin. long, setose and stellate-pubescent, at length nearly glabrous. 

 Seeds oblong, truncate, o lin. long, IJ lin. broad ; testa silvery, con- 

 tracted into groups of small wart-like protuberances. — Lam. Encycl. 

 ii. 215; Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. 59, t. 30; Geiseler, Crot. Monogr. 75; 

 Baill. Adansonia, i. 68 ; Aublet, PI. Guin. ii. 883 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. 

 ed. I, iii. 370 ; Vahl, Symb. Bot. i. 78. C. trilobatus, Forsk. Fl. ^gypt.- 

 Arab. 1()3, ex Schumach. & Thonn. C. trilobatits, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 55G ; 

 Schumach. ik Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 411. C. ripai'iits, Kunth in 

 Humb. &, Bonpl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. PI. ii. 90. C. lobatus, var. ripariiis 

 and genuinus, MUll. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 668 ; Schweinf. in Bull. 

 Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 305. C. jyerrotetianum^ Baill. Adansonia, i. 67. 

 C. Coiirteti and C. Becorsei, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Iv. Mem. 

 viii. 71 and 72. Schradera scandens, Willd. in Goett. Journ. Wiss. i. 

 (1797) 1. Astrcea lobata, Klotzsch in Wiegm. Archiv. vii. 194 ; Hook. 

 Niger Fl. 509. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Adanson, Leprieur, Beaiivois, Richard! 

 Seiidelot, 465 ! Thonning ! Perrottet^ 190 ! Gold Coast. : Salaga, Krause ! and 

 without precise locality, Cummins ! French Sudan : Sikasso, Chevalier, 750 ! 

 Dahomey, Bnrton! Testu, 199 ! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1158! Vango, 

 Malabu Hills, Dalziel, 158! Katagnm district, Dalziel, 211! 212! Lokojti, 

 Parsons, 40! Lagos, Millen. 36! 142! Moloney I Datvodu, 30! 147! Benuttf, 

 498 ! Fernando Po, Mayin, 405! Barter! Vogel,2\l ! 



ITortli Central. Central Shari : Souka, Chevalier, 9026 ! Konlfe, Chevalier^ 

 9200! south of Hagirmi, Chevalier, 9288! 9572! Fort Archnmbault, Chevalier, 

 10542 ! Dar Banda ; Ndelli, Chevalier, 6842 ! 7657 ! 



Nile ILand. Eritrea: Bogos ; Sciotel, Beccari, 102! Abyssinia: in the 

 Mountains of Mawerr, Schimper, 2215 ! Kordofan, Kotschy, 21 ! 85 ! Pfund, 129 t 

 386 ! White Nile, Brour^, 44 ! 



