770 cxxii. EUPHORBIACE.E (hutchinson). [Croton. 



or crenate-serrate, thinly and rigidly chartaceous, glabrous and dull on 

 both surfaces ; lateral nerves 7-9 on each side, slender, looped towards 

 the margin, distinct but not prominent on both surfaces; petiole 

 1-4 lin. long, stellate-puberulous ; glands at the base of the leaf 

 stipitate, funnel-shaped, coriaceous, glabrous ; stipules small, deciduous. 

 Flowers monoecious. Racemes terminal or terminating lateral branch- 

 lets, up to 2 J in. long, the male flowers few at the top, the females 

 more numerous in the lower part ; axis angular, very sparingly stellate- 

 puberulous; bracts ovate, J lin. long, pubescent. Male pedicel 1 lin. 

 long, nearly glabrous: Sepals 5, ovate-oblong, J lin. long, densely 

 ciliate at the apex. Petals 5, linear-spathulate, | lin. long, villous 

 towards the apex. Stamens 1 1 ; filaments glabrous. Receptacle 

 pilose. Female flowers subsessile : Sepals 5, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 nearly 1 lin. long, with a tuft of hairs at the apex, very sparingly 

 stellate-pubescent outside. Petals absent. Disk thick and fleshy, 

 very slightly 5-lobed, glabrous, lobes oblong and not apiculate. 

 Ovary stellate-tomentose ; styles 3, spreading, bilobed to slightly 

 below the middle, lobes linear, terete, glabrous, about f lin. long. 

 Capsule slightly trilobed, about 2 J lin. in diam., stellate-puberulous 

 but not scaly. Seeds nearly 2 lin. long, with a dull smooth light 

 yellow testa. 



Upper Guinea. Ivoiy Coast : banks of the Cavally River at Prolo, Chevalier, 

 19861 ! 



35. C. nigritanmn, Scott-Elliot in Journ. Linn. Sac. xxx. 97. 

 An undershrub; branches subterete, covered with a grey bark, 

 becoming glabrous ; young flowering branchlets short, sparingly rusty- 

 puberulous. Leaves elliptic or lanceolate-elliptic, obtuse or slightly 

 acuminate, slightly narrowed to, but obtuse at the base, 1-3 in. long, 

 J-lJ in. broad, obtusely and shortly serrate, membranous or thinly 

 chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces except for a few scattered 

 stellate hairs on the nerves below ; lateral nerves 5-7 on each side of 

 the midrib, slender, looped towards the margin, distinct but not pro- 

 minent on both surfaces; petiole 1-G lin. long, puberulous ; glands at 

 the apex subsessile, coriaceous, glabrous ; stipules lanceolate-subulate, 

 1 lin. long, rusty-tomentose. Flowers dioecious or submonoecious. 

 Male racemes terminating short lateral branchlets, slender, few- 

 flowered, sometimes a few females towards the base, up to 2 J in. long ; 

 axis very sparingly puberulous ; bracts 1-2-flowered, subulate, J lin. 

 long, slightly pubescent ; pedicel slender, up to 2 lin. long, nearly 

 glabrous. Sepals 5, ovate, obtuse, J lin. long, § lin. broad, stellate- 

 pubescent outside, glabrous within. Petals 5, spathulate, as long as the 

 sepals, densely ciliate at the apex. Stamens 10 ; filaments glabrous. 

 Receptacle densely pilose. Female racemes similar to the male but 

 stouter and angular ; bracts 1 -flowered, as long as the pedicels ; pedicel 

 stout, I lin. long. Sepals 5, oblong, obtuse, stellate-pubescent outside. 

 Petals very rudimentary. Disk not present. Ovary globose, shortly 

 setulose ; styles bilobed, at length spreading, lobes linear, glabrous. 

 Capsule about 2h lin. in diam., covered with yellow orbicular scales. 



