764 cxxii. EUPHORBIACE.E (hutchinsox). [Crotoii. 



remaining lateral nerves 8-5 on each side, looped and branched near the 

 margin, all prominent on both surfaces ; tertiary nerves spreading almost 

 at right angles from the midrib ; petiole J-1 in. long, very sparingly 

 lepidote. Flowers apparently dioecious, the females not known. Male 

 racemes terminal, G in. long, slender ; axis rusty-lepidote ; pedicels 2 lin. 

 long, minutely stellate-puberulous ; bracts small, deciduous. Sepals 5, 

 subequal, ovate, glabrous except for the ciliate apex, about 1 lin. long. 

 Petals 5, obtuse, 1 lin. long, glabrous outside, lanate within. Disk- 

 glands 5, subulate. Stamens 10-12; filaments IJ lin. long, glabrous; 

 anthers curved, J lin. long. Receptacle densely villous. — Stapf in 

 Johnston, Liberia, ii. 648. 



Upper Guinea. Liberia : Monrovia, Whyte ! 



24. C. Poggei, Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xv. 534. A tree ; branches 

 scurfy-puberulous, slightly angular when young. Leaves ovate, more or 

 less gradually .acuminate, acumen slightly mucronate, rounded or sub- 

 cordate at the base, with 2 small glands, l|-3 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, 

 chartaceous, denticulate, glabrous, shining and somewhat black on the 

 upper surface, permanently grey stellate-tomentellous below, 5-nerved 

 from the base, remaining lateral nerves about 3 on each side, all very 

 prominent on the lower surface ; transverse nerves very lax ; petiole 

 1-1 J in. long, sulcate or slightly angular, tomentellous with very short 

 hairs; stipules very small. Flowers monoecious, liacemes terminal, with 

 numerous males and several females disposed together along the axis ; 

 axis angular, densely scurfy-torn entellous ; bracts subulate, about 1 lin. 

 long, puberulous. Male flowers: pedicel \\ lin. long, stellate-tomen- 

 tellous. Sepals 5, ovate-oblong, obtuse, subcoriaceous, IJ lin. long, 

 J lin. broad, very sparingly stellate-puberulous outside, glabrous within. 

 Petals 5, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, 1^ lin. long, f lin. broad, glabrous out- 

 side, hirsute on the margin and within the apex. Stamens about 10; 

 filaments glabrous. Receptacle pilose. Female flowers nearly sessile. 

 Sepals ovate-triangular, subacute, about 1 lin. long and J lin. broad, 

 coriaceous, sparingly stellate-puberulous outside, glabrous within. Petals 

 5, linear-lanceolate, as long as the sepals, with densely villous margins. 

 Disk 5-lol)ed, nearly glabrous. Ovary globose, densely tomentellous ; 

 styles spreading over the top of the ovary, bipartite ; segments linear, 

 entire, about f lin. long, glabrous. Immature fruit subglobose, rusty- 

 tomentellous. — Durand ct Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 244. 



Soutb Central. Belgian Congo: Baslnlange district; Mukenge, Pogge, 

 1368 ! 



25. C. alienus, Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xliii. 80. A tree of moderate 

 size ; branches sparingly pubescent with short stellate hairs when young, 

 at length quite glabrous. Leaves oblong or oblong-elliptic, obtuse at the 

 apex, slightly narrowed, obtuse and with 2 stalked glands at the base, 1 J- 

 2 J in. long, J-1^ in. broad, rather rigidly chartaceous, remotely denticu- 

 late, quite glabrous and slightly shining on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 

 7-8 on each side, spreading, looped well within the margin, prominent on 

 both surfaces ; tertiary nerves lax and branched ; petiole 2-3 J lin. long, 



