Clui/tia.] cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE (hutchinson). 807 



slender, f lin. long ; free part of filaments slightly reflexed, J lin. 

 long. Rudimentary ovary cylindric, truncate, J lin. long, glabrous. 

 Female flowers solitary or subsolitary, axillary; pedicel very slender, 

 6-7 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals narrowly oblong, rounded at the apex, 

 IJ lin. long, scarcely J lin. broad, membranous, glabrous on both 

 sides, with a large bilobed scale within the base. Petals spathulate, 

 obtuse, as long as the sepals, glabrous. Ovaiy glabrous ; styles short. 

 Fruits 2 J lin. in diam., pustulate. Seeds smooth, very dark brown. 

 — C. 7'ichardiana, vslv. pedicellaris, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 5ol. ('. 

 ahi/ssinica, vav. pedicellaris, ViX.yL in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Cluytiea?, 

 57, partly. C. abyssinica. var. deserticolaj Volkens ex Pax, I.e. 



Mozamb. Blstr. Gennaii East Africa: Kiliinanjiiro ; Kileinix, Allaud , lid I 

 Marangu, Volkens^ 2240 ! East Africa, without locsjlitv, Taylor ! 



The specimen of Volkens, 2240, at Kew is c? , that at the British Museum 9 • 



10. C. abyssinica, Jauh. l- Spach, III. PL Orient, v. 77, t. 468. A 

 shrub about 1 ft. high ; branches glabrous or very thinly pubescent. 

 Leaves lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, mostly obtuse, gradually nar- 

 rowed to the base, 1-2J in. long, \-\ in. broad, entire, membranous or 

 thinly chartaceous, very light green or glaucous when dry, dull and 

 glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 7-B on each side, mostly 

 distinct, but not at all prominent ; petiole 4-7 lin. long, glabrous ; 

 stipules small. Flowers dioecious. Male flowers several in each leaf- 

 axil ; pedicel slender, about 3 lin. long, glabrous, at length articulated 

 about the middle. Sepals obovate, rounded at the apex, cuneate at the 

 base, about 1 lin. long, f lin. broad, membranous, glabrous on both 

 surfaces, with 3 more or less slightly club-shaped glands at the base. 

 Petals obovate-spathulate, as long as the sepals, with a solitary orbicular 

 fleshy gland within the base of each. Staminal column | lin. long ; 

 free part of filaments J lin. long, slightly reflexed ; anthers ^ lin. long. 

 Rudimentary ovary truncate, J lin. long, glabrous. Female flowers 

 1-3 together, axillary ; pedicel about 2 lin. long when in flower, 

 attaining \ in. in fruit, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Sepals and 

 petals larger than in the male, the former with 2 glands within the base 

 of each. Ovary subglobose, glabrous or very sparingly pubescent ; 

 styles soon falling oft", spreading and recurved, bilobed. Capsule about 

 2| lin. in diam., reticulately wrinkled, glabrous. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, 

 1 J lin. long, black and shining, minutely pitted ; caruncles undulately 

 lobed, J lin. broad.— Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1045. C. lanceo- 

 lata, Via: glabra, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 253. C. richardiarui / 

 Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 148, not of Mull. Arg. C. glahrescens, 

 Knauf in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 340. C. myricokles, Pax, I.e. xxxix. 631. 

 C. abyssinica, vars. glabra, Jirma, and calvescens (partly), Pax «fc K. 

 Hoflfm. in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Cluytieae, 56, 57. 



Nile X.and. Abyssinia: Ankober, Roth, 7! various localities, Plowden, 

 Schimper,9Q\ 1329! Galla country; Arn^»\, EUeubeck, 1316 \ Havixr, Ell enbeck, 

 783! 785! Somaliland: Biddumn, Hiva. 1262! (iolis Kange, Drake-Brockman, 

 199 ! Dara-as, Drake- Biockman, 565 ! 587 ! and without precise locality, Mrs. 

 Lort Phillips ! Miss Edith Cole ! Kiitish East Africa: Mnu Plateau, iiaAer, 93 ! 

 Uganda: various localities, Whyte ! Daioe,26\ Broi<n,Z22.\ Bagshawe, 6'd'i\ 



