Croton.] cxxii. euphorbiace^e (hutchinson). 771 



Seeds dark brown, convex on the back, shining, nearly 2 lin. long. 



C. Binklagei, Pax <fe K. Hoflfm. in Engl. Jahrb. xlv. 237. 



Upper Guinea. French Guinea: Sangora district ; Farann, woods along the 

 banks of the Niger, Scott-Elliot, 5379! 5380! Liberia: VVebbn, on tbe Cavally 

 Kiver, Dinklaye, 2664 ! 



36. C. congensis, De Wild. Etudes FL Bos- et Moyen-Congo, 

 ii. 276. A tree; branches glabrous, more or less longitudinally 

 sulcate. Leaves ovate-elliptic, obtusely and gradually acuminate, 

 cuneate or subacute at the base, 3-5 in. long, about 2 J in. broad, 

 chartaceous, crenulate, quite glabrous on both surfaces, with two 

 opposite stipitate glands at the base ; lateral nerves 7-8 on each side, 

 oblique ; petiole 1-2 in. long, at length glabrous. Flowers monoecious. 

 Racemes terminal, about 8 in. long; axis angular, tomentellous ; 

 female flowers together with a few males in the lower, the males 

 fasciculate in the upper part; bracts very small. Male flowers: 

 pedicel 2J lin. long. Sepals 5, ovate, 1 lin. long, pubescent. Stamens 

 15-16; filaments glabrous, IJ lin. long. Receptacle tomentose. 

 Female flowei-s shortly pedicellate ; pedicel tomentose, 1 lin. long. 

 Sepals 5, oblong, 1 lin. long. Petals absent. Disk thin. Ovary 

 densely tomentose ; styles spreading, deeply bilobed, glabrous. Fruits 

 not known. 



Soutli Central r Belgian Congo : without precise locality, Ducoffre ! 



37. C. sylvaticTis, Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 82. A shrub; branches 

 sulcate, glabrous ; young flowering branchlets rusty stellate-puberulous. 

 Leaves ovate, subcaudate-acuminate, rounded and biglandular at the 

 base, 1J-2J in. long, 1-1 J in. broad, serrulate, thinly chartaceous, 

 glabrous on both surfaces or with a few stellate hairs below when young ; 

 lateral nerves about 4 on each side, slender, slightly raised on both sur- 

 faces, the lower much branched towards the margin ; cross nerves very 

 faint and lax ; petiole slender, 1-1 J in. long, shortly stellate-pubescent ; 

 stipules small, soon falling. Flowers moncecious. Racemes terminal, 

 up to 6 in. long, with numerous male flowers and a few females scattered 

 amongst them ; axis sulcate, rather densely stellate-tomentellous ; bracts 

 subulate-lanceolate, J lin. long. Male flowers : pedicel 1-1 J lin. long, 

 tomentellous. Sepals 5, narrowly lanceolate, obtuse, 1 lin. long, J lin. 

 broad, submembranous, thinly stellate-pubescent outside. Petals 5, 

 narrowly oblong, as long as the sepals, J lin. broad, glabrous outside, 

 white-villous on the margin and within the apex. Disk-glands small. 

 Stamens about 20 ; filaments very slender, 1 lin. long, glabrous ; anthers 

 ^ lin. long. Receptacle white-villous. Female flowers shortly pedicel- 

 late. Sepals similar to those of the male but not so membranous. 

 Petals rudimentary. Disk deeply 5-lobed, glabrous. Ovary tomentose : 

 styles bilobed to the base ; segments linear, entire, If lin. long, glabrous. 

 Fruit subglobose, 4J lin. in diam., shortly stellate-pubescent. — M iill. Arp. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 602 ; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 195. C\ 

 Siuhlmanni, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 80. 



IVile ]band. Uganda: Sessc Islands in Lake Victoria, Stuhhnann, 1210 ! 



