766 CXXII. EUPHORBIAC'E.I^: (hitchixson). [Crotim, 



pubescent on both surfaces, the middle hair often longer than the 

 others : lateral nerves about 5 on eiich side, very slender and incon- 

 spicuous ; petiole '2-(\ lin. long, pubescent ; stipules very small. 

 Flowers montpcious. Racemes axillary and terminal, few-dowered, 

 up to '2 in. long, the lower part female, the upper part male. Male 

 tiowers : Sepals stellate-pilose. Petals obovate, woolly on the margin 

 in the upper part. Stamens 10; tilaments glabrous, lleceptacle 

 pilose. Female flowers : Sepals narrowly lanceolate. Petals rudimen- 

 tary or absent. Ovary tomentose ; styles bilobed for about one-third 

 their length, slender. Capsule ellipsoid. — Miill. Arg. in DC Prodr. 

 XV. ii, G2o. 



Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: near Wuru, Barter, 814! conflneiioe of 

 the Niger ami Bei\ue, Barter, 615 ! Southern Nigeria : Onitsa, Barter, 574 I 



10. C. madandensis, ^V. Moore in Joiom. Linn. Soc. xl. 1'.)."). 

 A large shrub : branches terete, slender, glabrous, with a few scattered 

 lenticels : young branchlets stellate-pubescent or tomentellous. Leaves^ 

 elliptic or ovate-rotundate. shortly and gradually acuminate, rounded 

 and biglandular at the b:use, 1-2 J in. long, J-H in. broad, membranous, 

 entire, rather thinly stellate-pubescent and dull on both surfaces ; 

 lateral nerves 3-0; petiole 1^-4 lin. long, tomentellous; stipules 

 subulate, deciduous. Flowers mona^cious. Racemes about IJin. long, 

 a few females towards the base, the remainder males. Male flowers : 

 pedicel short, tomentose. Sepals ovate-ol)long, obtuse, densely pubes- 

 cent outside. Petals oblong-obovate, obtuse. Stamens about 13; 

 tilaments puberulous. Receptacle pilose. Female flowers : pedicel 

 2-3 lin. long, tomentellous. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 1 lin. long. 

 Petals absent. Ovary subglobose, stellate-pubescent ; style-branches 

 short. 



Mozaxnb. Dlstr. Gazaluml : Mndanda forests, 400 ft.. Stn/mterfoti, 1408! 

 1779! 



11. C. niloticus, Miill. Ary. in Flora^ 1864, r)37. Branches 

 sparingly and minutely lepidote ; young flowering branchlets sukate, 

 about H lin. thick at the base, lepidote. Leaves of the flowering 

 branchlets very broadly ovate or ovate-rhomboid (the youngest 

 obliquely ovate), very shortly and obtusely pointed, slightly cordate or 

 rounded at the base. 2-4^ in. long, l|-4 in. broad, entire, very 

 thinly chartaceous, very sparingly stellate -puberulous above, stellate- 

 tomentellous below, digitately O-nerved from the base, remaining 

 lateral nerves about 5 on each side, diverging from the midrib at an 

 angle of 4r>°, prominent on both surfaces ; tertiary nerves parallel, 

 about 2 lin. apart, raised below ; leaves of the older branchlets very 

 large, deeply cordate at the base, about 1 ft. long and broad, digitately 

 7-nerved at the base; petiole of the smaller leaves 1-H in. long, 

 terete, about 1 lin. thick, stellate-puberulous, of the larger leaves over 

 (*» in. long, 3 lin. thick, closely sulcate, glabrous ; stipules subulate, 

 1^ lin, long, tomentellous. Flowers apparently dioecious, the males 

 not known. Female racemes axillary and terminal, about 3J in. long; 



