760 CXXII. EUPHORBIACE.f: (HUTCHINSON). [CVotOU. 



Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 276, ii. 277 ; Th. & Hel. Durand, 

 Syll. Fl. Congo. 481. 



ImOWOT Guinea. Lower Congo: Kisantu, Gillet. Angola: Golungo Alto; 

 Sobato de liumba, Welwitsch, 348 ! Malange district, Oossweiler, 966 ! Cazengo, 

 Gossiveiler, 4507 ! 4790 ! 4791 ! 



Soutb Central. Belgian Congo : Kwango district ; Boala, Lescravicaef ; 

 Kasai district; Kanda-Kaiida, Genfil ; Lusambo, Laurent; Kitebwa, Genfi/, 

 JSapin ! 



IG. C. megalocarpus, Hutchinson. A tree 70-80 ft. high ; 

 branchlets tomentellous with stellate hairs or scaly. Leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, shortly and subacutely acuminate, rounded 

 and often subcordate at the base, li-5 in. long, ^-3 in. broad, rigidly 

 chartaceous, margin entire or slightly undulate, minutely stellate- 

 puberulous and dark-coloured above, lighter coloured and densely 

 covered with small scales below; lateral nerves spreading, lG-20 on. 

 each side, slender, often nearly invisible above, slightly raised below, 

 gradually fading towards the margin ; veins not evident ; petiole J-3 in. 

 long, stellate-tomentose or covered with scales ; stipules linear, 4 lin. 

 long, terete, stellate-tomentellous. Flowers monoecious. Racemes up 

 to 10 in. long, many-flowered, a few females towards the base, the 

 remainder males ; axis angular, slightly flexuous, densely scaly and 

 often stellate-pubescent ; bracts small and caducous. Male flowers : 

 pedicel \-\ in. long, angulai-, covered with scales. Sepals 5, ovate- 

 triangular, obtuse, 2 lin. long, IJ lin. broad, densely scaly outside, 

 shortly pubescent within, with a tuft of hairs at the apex. Petals 

 obovate-oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, 2J lin. long, 1 lin. broad, 

 covered with fringed scales on the back, villous on the margin and on 

 the inner side. Disk-glands fleshy, glabrous. Stamens 25 ; filaments 

 rather slender, thinly pilose in the lower part ; anthers | lin. long. 

 Receptacle pilose. Female flowers: pedicel stout. Sepals as in the 

 male, but without the tuft of hairs at the apex. Petals linear, 2J lin. 

 long, scaly on the back, villous within and on the margin. Disk 

 minute. Ovary densely covered with fringed scales ; styles tspreading, 

 bipartite, segments again divided once or twice, pubescent on the 

 back. Capsule ellipsoid, Ij— Ij in. long; exocarp crustaceous, thin, 

 covered with scales ; endocarp hard, nearly 2 lin. thick. Seeds 

 narrowly elHpsoid, with a small apiculus at one end, 1 in. long, G-7 lin. 

 broad, faintly ribbed and sliglitly wrinkled on the back. — C. elliottiannSt 

 Pax A: Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 280, not 0. elliotianus, Raill. 



Nile X.and. liritisli East Africa: Nairobi, Elliott, 51! Batiiscoinhe, 471 

 Kibwezi, Scheffler, 112\ Alasailand, i/o/Z(> / Uganda: IVlabii-a Forest, Da«f, 13 1 

 UssJier, 4 ! Toro, Dawe, 498 ! 



17. C. oligandram, Pierre MSS. A tree 80-50 ft. high; 

 branchlets sulcate or angular, closely beset with small brown scales. 

 Leaves oblong-elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, subcaudate and rather 

 acutely acuminate, rounded at the base, 1J-4J in. long, |-2J in. broad, 

 thinly and rigidly chartaceous, entire, minutely stellate-puberulous 

 and darker coloured above, lighter and densely covered with small 



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