Oroton.] CXXII. EUPHORBIACEiE (HUTCHINSON). 759 



4-6-partite; segments entire, bifid or trifid, glabrous above, slightly 

 puberulous on the back towards the base. Capsule trilobed, 5 lin. 

 long and in diam., covered with yellow fimbriate scales. Ripe seeds 

 not seen. — Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 515 ; Pax in Engl. Pfi. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 237; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 278. 

 C. welwitschiamLs, Miill. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 388, and in DC. 

 Prodr. XV. ii. 515 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 970 ; De Wild, cfc 

 Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me ser. i. 47 ; Th. &, H61. Durand, 

 Syll. Fl. Congo. 481. C. Antunesii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 523, 

 and in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 282. C. amabilis, N. E. Br. in 

 Kew Bulletin, 1909, 140, not of Mull. Arg. 



lower Guinea. Lower Congo : Kisantu, Oillet, 320. Angola : Huilla^ 

 Wehvitsch, 341 ! Anfunes, 178, 298, 709 ! Jonkoa Mountain, near the mouth of 

 the River Longa, Baum, 556 ! Cazengo, Oossweiler, 4909 ! German South-west 

 Africa : Ouibahimbuenge, Rauienen, 18 I Amboland, Eautanen, 308 ! 



Mozamb. I>l8tr. Portuguese East Africa : Sena, on the Zambesi, Kirk (2) I 

 British Central Africa: Khodesia; Victoria Falls, Allen, 418 (partly)! Rogera, 

 5146! Ngamiland: Kwebe, Lugard^ 33! 246! Mrs. Lugard, 35! and without 

 precise locality, Baines I 



Soutb Central. Belgian Congo: Welle district; Donge village, Seret, 594. 



15. C. MubangOy Mull. Arg, in Jowrn. Bot. 1864, 338. An 

 elegant tree, 12-20 ft. high ; trunk G-12 in. in diam.; head widely 

 spreading, depressed at the top, dense ; branches spreading ; branchlets 

 drooping, longitudinally sulcate, lepidote and slightly stellate-pubescent. 

 Leaves ovate-elliptic, subcaudately or gradually acuminate, cordate and 

 with 2 large glands at the base, 2|-GJ in. long, 1J-3J in. broad, 

 entire, thinly and rigidly chartaceous, minutely stellate-puberulous and 

 dark-coloured on the upper surface, scaly and grey below, sometimes 

 with a few stellate hairs on the midrib and lateral nerves; lateral 

 nerves 14-18 on each side of the midrib, spreading, branched and 

 fading before reaching the margin, prominent below ; veins invisible ; 

 petiole l-o in. long, scaly and shortly stellate-pubescent, channelled 

 on the upper side ; stipules 4-5-partite, segments linear, subterete, 

 4-5 lin. long, stellate-pubescent. Flowers monoecious, about 4 lin. 

 in diam. Racemes 3-8 in. long ; pedicels stout, spreading, 3 lin. long, 

 scaly; bracts small. Male flowers : Sepals 5, triangular, obtuse, 2 lin. 

 long, 1 J lin. broad, coriaceous, scaly outside, tomentose within. Petals 

 5, rhomboid-elliptic, 2 J lin. long, IJ lin. broad, subcoriaceous, entire, 

 scaly outside, subtomentose within. Stamens about 30; filaments 

 flattened, minutely papillose on the margin ; anthers 1 lin. long. 

 Receptacle pubescent. Female flowers: Sepals and petals as in the 

 male. Ovary depressed-globose, scaly; styles short, depressed, con- 

 tiguous, bifid. Fruits subgiobose, J in. in diam., scaly. Seeds } in. 

 long, nearly \ in. broad ; testa dull-brown when dry. — Miill. Arg. in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 514 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, 251 ; Hiern in Oat. Afr. 

 PI. Welw. i. i)G9 ; De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me ser. 

 i. 836, and Roliq. Dewevr. 208; De Wild. Miss. E. Laurent, 128, and 



