762 cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (hutchinson). [Croton. 



&o^7er Onlnea. Lower Congo : Cataract district, without collector's name 

 ia Brussels Herbarium. Angola : Ambriz, Welwitsch, 343 ! Monteiro ! Cazengo, 

 Welwitsch, 347 ! Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 346 ! 347b ! 



19. C. jatrophoides, Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xliii. 79. A tree or 

 possibly a shrub; branches whitish stellate-pubescent when young, 

 soon becoming glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate, acutely cordate-acumi- 

 nate, cordate at the base, 2J-4 in. long, 2-3J in. broad, shortly 5-lobed 

 or coarsely 5-toothed, chartaceous, shortly stellate-pubescent when 

 young, at length glabrous but slightly roughened with the persistent 

 bases of the hairs, permanently densely white-pubescent below, digi- 

 tately o-nerved from the base, remaining lateral nerves 3-4 on each 

 side, all prominent below ; transverse nerves very few ; petiole l-2Jin. 

 long, pubescent ; stipules filiform, 4 lin. long, thinly stellate-pubescent. 

 Flowers apparently dioecious. Male racemes terminal, many-flowered, 

 up to 7 in. long ; axis densely pubescent with white hairs ; bracts 

 small; pedicels 2-2 J lin. long, pubescent. Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, IJ lin. long, 1 lin. broad, pubescent. Petals obovate-oblanceo- 

 late, very similar to the sepals, margins villous. Disk-glands subulate, 

 fleshy, glabrous. Stamens 15-16; filaments glabrous. Receptacle 

 villous. Female flowers not known. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa: Amani; on the Pungani River at 

 Friedrich Hoffmann's Plantation, Braun, 1516 ! 



20. C. megalobotrys, Mull. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 537. A tree 

 20-30 ft. high ; trunk ^)-Q ft. in circumference ; branches subterete, 

 with numerous light-coloured lenticels ; young leafy flowering branchlets 

 BteUate-pubescent with whitish hairs. Leaves ovate or ovate- lanceolate, 

 gradually narrowed or tapered to an acute apex, rounded or truncate 

 and biglandular at the base, 1^-3 in. long, J-lJ in. broad, membranous, 

 unevenly serrate, glabrous or nearly so above, white-villous below when 

 young, at length thinly stellate- pilose ; lateral nerves 5-6 on each side, 

 raised on both surfaces ; petiole ^-1 in. long, pubescent ; stipules 

 subulate-lanceolate, lJ-2 lin. long, glabrous. Flowers dioecious, green. 

 Male racemes terminating short lateral branchlets, many-flowered, 

 1-3 in. long ; pedicels up to 3 lin. long, pubescent ; bracts linear, half 

 the length of the pedicels. Sepals .'►, elliptic, obtuse, 2 lin. long, 1 lin. 

 broad, submembranous, slightly pubescent. Petals 5, lanceolate-elliptic, 

 subacute, equal in length to the sepals but a little narrower, shortly 

 villous on the margin. Stamens 20-25 ; filaments 1 J lin. long ; anthers 

 oblong-ellipsoid, § lin. long. Receptacle densely villous. Female 

 flowers not known. Fruit the size of a walnut (McCahe). — MUll. Arg. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 5:)8 ; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 237 ; N. E. 

 Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 140. 



Mozaznb. Blstr. Ngamiland: banks of the Tamalakane River, JicCaie in 

 Herb. Atherstone, 17 ! 39 ! Lake Kiver, Lugard, 17 ! 



21. C. Seineriy Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xliii. 78. A shrub about 

 15 ft. high ; branchlets at first stellate-tomentose, at length pubescent 



