754 CXXII. EUPHORBIACE.t: (HUTCHINSON). [Crot07l, 



inflorescence ; bracts small, pubescent. Male flowers : Sepals 5, ovate, 

 subacute, 1 lin. long, f lin. broad, glabrous within. Petals narrowly 

 oblaiiceolate, obtuse or subacute, Ij lin. long, shortly pubescent on the 

 inner side and ciliate. Stamens 15 ; filaments slightly hairy. Recep- 

 tacle pilose. Female flowers : Calyx 5-lobed to two-thirds of the way 

 down; lobes ovate, obtuse, 1 lin. long, J lin. broad, scaly outside, slightly 

 pubescent within. Petals absent. Disk annular, fleshy, entire, glabrous. 

 Ovary subglobose, densely covered with light brown orbicular scales ; 

 styles 3-4, deeply bilobed, lobes linear, entire or bifid, incurved, | lin. 

 long, glabrous. Fruits 3 lin. long, scaly. Seeds light brown, oblong- 

 ellipsoid, 2J lin. long, 1} lin. broad, slightly shining, smooth.— C. pul- 

 chellus, Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 572, partly, as to syn. Klotzsch, 

 not of Baill. C. kwehensia, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1009, 140. 

 Argyrodendron bicolor, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 102 

 (not Croton bicolor, Roxb.). 



Wile Ziand. British East Africa: Tula River, -K"i>^ .' near Samburu, Kdssner, 

 482 ! without precise locality, 40 miles from the coast, Johnston ! 



]Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Great Namaqualand ; Auas 

 Mountains, Dinter, 819 ! 



Mozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa : road to Sonja, ilf6r/fccr,575 ! Portu- 

 guese East Africa : near Tete, Kirk ! Tete, Peters ! Boruma, Menyharth ! on the 

 Marenga, Menyharth, 796, 797. 



South Central. Ngamiland : Kwebe Hills, Lugard, 34 ! Mrs. Lugard, 41 ! 



6. C. somalensis, Vatke <ic Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 535. A shrub ; 

 branches terete, slightly glaucous ; young branchlets covered with grey 

 orbicular fringed scales. Leaves ovate, obtuse or slightly mucronate, 

 rounded or subcordate at the base, J-l| in. long, J-1 in. broad, entire or 

 undulate, thinly chartiiceous, rather softly pubescent with slender short 

 stellate hairs above, tomentellous with stellate hairs and scales below;, 

 lateral nerves 6-8 on each side, nearly straight, faded towards the 

 margin, very slightly impressed and nearly invisible above, prominent 

 below ; petiole 3-0 lin. long, tomentellous ; stipules small, subulate, J lin, 

 long. Flowers monoecious. Racemes terminal, about 1 in. long, bisexual 

 or only female at the base, the males in the upper part ; bracts linear, 

 \ lin. long, tomentose. Male flowers : Sepals 5, ovate, 1 lin. long, 

 I lin. broad, stellate-pubescent outside, glabrous within. Petals 5, 

 oblong-oblanceolate, 1 J lin. long, densely villous on the margin. Disk- 

 glands opposite the sepals, fleshy, glabrous. Stamens 12-16 ; filaments 

 glabrous. Receptacle pilose. Female flowers : Sepals as in the male. 

 Petals none or reduced to 1, linear, nearly as long as the sepals, densely 

 pubescent. Disk fleshy, slightly pubescent. Ovary globose, stellate- 

 tomentose ; styles spreading, bilobed, pubescent on the buck. 



Nile Xiand. Sonialiland : Ahl Mountains, Eildebrandt, 1530 ! Widaba, 

 Mrs. Lort Phillips! 



7. C. integrifolins. Pax in Bull. Herb. Boiss, vi. 732. A small 

 shrub lJ-3 ft high ; branches broadly sulcate, densely tomentellous. 



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