Croton.] cxxii. euphorbiace^e (hutchinson). 757 



axis shortly stellate-tomentellous, slightly compressed ; bracts small 

 triangular; pedicels J lin. long, tomentellous. Sepals o, reflexed, 

 oblong, obtuse, glabrous within, pubescent outside, about § lin. long. 

 Petals absent. Disk saucer-shaped, entire, rather thin but fleshy, 

 quite glabrous. Ovary subglobose, villous or subsetose ; styles 

 spreading, deeply bilobed, lobes linear, slightly pubescent outside. 

 Ripe fruit not seen. — MUll. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 598 ; Pax in 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 287 ; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 145. 

 JTile X^and. Uganda : low moist ground of Madi, Speke 8c Grant, 706 ! 



12. C. pseudopulchelluSy Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xxxiv. 371. A 

 shrub 6-12 ft. high ; branchlets slender, twiggy, covered with rust- 

 coloured scales when young. Leaves fragrant, subverticillate, lanceolate 

 or elliptic-lanceolate, more or less narrowed to an obtuse or slightly 

 emarginate apex, obtuse or subacute at the base, ^-3 inches long, J-1 J 

 in. broad, rigidly chartaceous, entire, mostly very dark brown and 

 always glabrous above when dry, covered below with silvery scales with 

 yellow centres; lateral nerves 0-12 on each side, slightly raised above, 

 not visible or only a little raised below ; glands at the base absent ; 

 petiole up to 1 in. long, scaly ; stipules minute. Flowers monoecious. 

 Racemes very much abbreviated, giving the flowers a clustered appear- 

 ance at the apex of each shoot. Male flowers : pedicel about 2 lin. 

 long at the opening of the flower. Sepals ovate, 1 lin. long, J lin. 

 broad, coriaceous, covered on the outside with numerous large over- 

 flapping orbicular scales, glabrous within except towards the puberulous 

 margin. Petals oblong-lanceolate, rounded at the apex, IJ lin. long, 

 J lin. broad, submembranous, glabrous on both sides, margin villous. 

 Disk-glands very small. Stamens 15-18; filaments flattened below, 

 sparingly pilose in the lower half. Receptacle pubescent. Female 

 flowers : Sepals as in the males. Petals oblanceolate, as long as the 

 sepals. Disk very thin, glabrous. Ovary densely covered with nume- 

 rous large overlapping scales ; styles bipartite to near the base ; seg- 

 ments subterete, glabrous. Capsule trilobed, J in. long, covered with 

 numerous overlapping scales. Seeds ellipsoid, brown, \ in. long, ^ in. 

 broad. — C. pulchellus, MUll. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 572, partly, excl. 

 Madagascar spec, and syn. Klotzsch, not of Baill. 



Nile !• and. Soraaliland; Bauiis, JJtua, 1486 ! British East Africa : Samburn, 

 Scott-Elliot, 6133 ! between Mombasa and Lamu, Whyte ! between Ribe and the 

 Oalla country, Wahejield ! 



Mozaxnb. Distr. Zanzibar, ^q;cr / Sttihlmann, 599 \ Gorman East Africa : 

 hetween Kipambui and Uwenji, Fischer, 526 ! Usambara; MhsIjcuh, Hoist, 3581 ! 

 Baganioyo, Stuhlmann, 127 ! Burn, Engler, 1907 ! and without precise locality, 

 Hildebrandt, 1296 ! Portuguese East Africa : above Tete, Kirk ! Tete, Kirk ! 



13. C. amabilis, MUlL Arg. in Flora, 1864, 537. A small 

 straight-growing tree ; branchlets sulcate, grey, scaly. Leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, shortly, gradually and rather acutely 

 acuminate, rounded at the base, H-G in. long, J-21 in. broad, entire, 

 rigidly chartaceous, scaly and silvery-grey below, glabrous and dull 



