Cluytia,] CXXII. EUPHORBIACEiB (HUTCHINSON). 805 



broad, yellowish-pilose outside, glabrous and mottled within, with a 

 tripartite scale below the middle. Petals obovate, rounded at the apex, 

 nearly as long as the sepals, glabrous, each with about 3 minute glands 

 within the base. Staminal column J lin. long ; anthers ^ lin. long. 

 Kudimentary ovary subcylindric, with a flat expanded top, glabrous. 

 Female flowers not known. 



Mozamb. Blstr. Rhodesia: Manika; Inyanga Mountains, 6000-7000 ft., 

 Cecil, 181 ! 



6. C. conferta, Hutchinson. An undershrub 2-3 ft. high ; stem 

 and branches rough with the scars of the previous season's leaves, 

 ungular, glabrous or very thinly pubescent between the angles ; lateral 

 branches elongated, simple, up to 8 in. long, leafy at the apex. Leaves 

 crowded, subsessile, oblong, emarginate, slightly narrowed to an obtuse 

 base, 4-6 lin. long, 2-3 lin. broad, entire, rigidly subcoriaceous, glabrous 

 and indistinctly veined on both surfaces ; stipules minute. Flowers 

 monoecious. Male flowers axillary, solitary or in pairs ; pedicel glabrous, 

 up to 1 lin. long. Sepals obovate, minutely tridentate or entire, 1 lin. 

 long, J lin. broad, membranous, glabrous on both surfaces. Petals 

 like the sepals, but a little narrower towards the base. Glands in the 

 bottom of the calyx about 10 in a single ring, very small and rounded. 

 Filaments connate for two-thirds of their length ; anthers I lin. long. 

 Rudimentary ovary cylindric, entire, glabrous, ^ lin. long. Young 

 female flowers not seen. Sepals and petals in the fruiting stage 

 glabrous, the former 3-glandular near the base. Capsule about 2 lin. 

 in diam., glabrous, slightly wrinkled. Seeds not seen. 



Mozamb. Blstr. Nyasaland : Tucliila Plateau, 7000 ft., Purves, 100 ! 

 A very distinct species, and easily recognised amongst those from Tropical Africa 

 by its small crowded emarginate leaves and monoecious flowers. 



7. C. kamerunica, Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xlv. 238. A shrub 3-5 ft. 

 high ; young branchlets densely woolly-tomentose with light yellow 

 hairs. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, subacute, narrowed to the base, 

 2J-5 in. long, J-1 in. broad, firmly membranous, pubescent only on the 

 nerves above, rather densely so with crisped hairs below ; lateral nerves 

 11-15 on each side, distinct below, looped and branched just within the 

 margin ; petiole J-| lin. long, tomentose. Flowers monoecious, several 

 males and one or two females in each leaf-axil. Male pedicel short, 

 articulated in the middle, pubescent. Sepals obovate-elliptic, rounded 

 at the apex, 1 lin. long, slightly pubescent in the lower half, glabrous 

 above, with a tripartite scale inside towards the base. Petals spathulate- 

 oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, as long as the sepals, glabrous, with 

 a solitary rounded gland within the base. Filaments connate for two- 

 thirds of their length ; anthers rounded. Rudimentary ovary cylindric, 

 expanded and flat at the apex, glabrous. Female flowers : pedicel at- 

 taining J in. long when in fruit, tomentose. Sepals oblong, rounded at 

 the apex, 1 J lin. long, pubescent in the lower two-thirds outside, with a 

 bilobed scale at the base inside. Petals obovate-spathulate, \\ lin. long, 

 glabrous, with a small scale at the base. Ovary pubescent between the 



