760 cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (hutchinson). [CrotoTi. 



broad, thinly chartaceous or submembranous, rather coarsely crenate- 

 serrate, glabrous and dull on both surfaces ; lateral nerves C-10 on 

 each side, slender, slightly raised on both surfaces, fading and branched 

 towards the margin ; cross-nerves faint and very lax ; glands at the 

 base of the leaf cupular, stipitate, coriaceous; petiole slender, |-1| in. 

 long, very sparingly pubescent ; stipules deciduous. Flowers monoecious. 

 Racemes terminal, up to 6 in. long, a few female flowers at the base of 

 each, the remaining upper part consisting of numerous males, or all 

 male; axis laxly villous with stellate hairs; bracts small, subulate, 

 J lin.' long. Male flowers: pedicel 1-2 lin. long, terete, pubescent. 

 Sepals 5, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, IJ lin. long, | lin. broad, slightly 

 membranous, stellate-pubescent on the back, glabrescent within. 

 Petals linear-oblong, obtuse, 1 lin. long, glabrous outside, pilose at the 

 base and apex within. Disk -glands small, fleshy, glabrous. Stamens 

 20; filaments slender, glabrous. Female flowers: pedicel stout, 

 1 lin. long, pubescent. Sepals oblong, obtuse, 1^ lin. long, J lin. broad, 

 stellate-pilose outside, glabrous within, except for a few stellate hairs 

 towards the apex. Petals reduced to 1 or 2, linear-tiliform, § lin. long, 

 pilose. Disk fleshy, villous. Ovary tomentose ; styles 5, recurved- 

 spreading, bipartite to near the base, segments linear, entire, 1 lin. 

 long, glabrous. Capsule ellipsoid-globose, obtusely trilobed, nearly 

 1 in. in diam., scaly with the persistent bases of the stellate hairs; 

 exocarp and endocarp thin. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, 4J lin. long, 3 J lin. 

 broad, smooth and slightly mottled. 



Xtower Guinea. Angola : by the River Kubango, near Fort Princeza 

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28. C. Gubouga, S. Moore in Joum. Linn. Soc. xl. 196. 

 Branches terete, rather densely covered with lenticels ; young flower- 

 \i\a branchlets rather slender, woolly-tomentose when young, at length 

 becoming nearly glabrous. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acutely 

 and rather long-acuminate, rounded and more or less cordate at the 

 base, 2-4J in. long, j-2J in. broad, irregularly serrate, membranous, 

 stellate-tomentose below and pubescent above when young, at length 

 quite glabrous, digitately 5-nerved from the base, remaining lateral 

 nerves 4-5 on each side, looped and branched some distance from the 

 margin, distinct on both surfaces; petiole |-1| in. long, with 2-4 

 scattered glands at the apex, tomentose ; stipules deciduous, linear- 

 lanceolate, 3 lin. long, nearly glabrous. Flowers monoecious. Racemes 

 terminal, lJ-2 in. long, the lower two-thirds containing about 12 

 female flowers, the upper third with about the same number of males ; 

 bracts similar to the stipules, but stellate-pubescent ; female pedicels 

 about IJ lin. long, stellate-pubescent, the males 2 lin. long. Male 

 flowers: Sepals 5, oblong-ellipsoid, IJ lin. long, 1 lin. broad, thin, 

 striate, glabrous on both sides, rather densely ciliate in the upper half. 

 Petals 5, narrowly elliptic, subacute at both ends, 2 lin. long, | lin. 

 broad, trinerved, glabrous on both surfaces, densely ciliate, Disk- 

 glnnds 5, fleshy, glabrous. Stamens 15-lG ; filaments glabrous. 

 Receptacle villous. Female flowers: Sepals 5, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 



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