810 cxxii. EUPUouBiACE.t: (hltchinsox). [Cluytia, 



elliptic or oblanceolate-elliptic, rounded and obtusely mucronate at the 

 apex, obtuse at the base, J-1 in. long, 3-6 lin. broad, thinly chartaceous, 

 adpressed-pubescent on the midrib above, very thinly pubescent espe- 

 cially on and near the midrib below ; lateral nerves few ; petiole very 

 short, scarcely J lin. long. Flowers dioecious. Male pedicel up to 

 1 lin. long, pubescent, articulated in the middle. Sepals obovate, 

 rounded at the apex, pubescent outside in the lower half, membranous, 

 with a trihd scale within the base. Petals spathulate, shorter than the 

 sepals. Glands around the base of the staminal column about 15, small, 

 rounded. Filaments connate for three-quarters of their length ; anthers 

 rounded. Rudimentary ovary short, entire. Female flowers solitary 

 in each leaf-axil ; pedicel h lin. long, thinly pubescent. Sepals oblong, 

 obtuse, subcoriaceous, 1 lin. long, very thinly pubescent outside, with an 

 erect minutely o-fid scale (disk-lobe) at the base. Petals spathulate- 

 oblaneeolate, nearly as long as the sepals, without a scale or gland at 

 the base. Ovary subglobose, slightly trilobed, glabrous ; styles short, 

 recurved, bifid; glabrous. Fruits not known. — Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. 

 Euphorb.-Ciuytieje, GO. C. phyllanthoklesj S. Moore in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xl. JOS. 



Mozamb. Bistr. (iennan East Africa: Ukii)gii Mountains; Kinyika 

 Mountain, Qoetze, 947 ! lower plateau nortli of Lake Nyasa, Thomson! Rhodesia: 

 Melsetter district, 6000 ft., Swynnerton, 1120 ! 1722 ! 



Both Knaiif and Pax have omitted to descrihe the female flowers, which are 

 numerous and exclusively on the right-hatid specimen of the type slieet. 



Moore {I.e.) remarks that C. Paxil, Knauf, is described as liavinp no glands 

 at the ba^^e of the petals. There are about 3 glands to each petal, however, and they 

 are indicated by Knauf as follows : glandulis interioribus 15 parvis circa columuam 

 staminalem in duos cyclos, etc. 



1(1. C. angustifolia, Kmmf m Emjl. Jahrh. xxx. 34u. A shrub 

 about 3 ft. high ; branches slender, terete, pilose. Leaves linear or 

 linear-lanceolate, acute at both ends, \\--\ in. long, 2-6 lin. broad, 

 firmly membranous, densely pubescent on both surfaces, with lateral 

 nerves scarcely visible ; petiole 1-2 lin. long, densely pubescent. Flowers 

 dioecious, ^lale flowers few in each axillary cluster; pedicels short, 

 articulated in the middle, pubescent. Sepals oblong, rounded at the 

 apex, \\ lin. long, J lin. broad, pubescent outside, with a trilobed scale 

 inside at the base. Petals about as long as the sepals, but narrower. 

 Glands in the bottom of the calyx about 20. Kudimentary ovary thinly 

 pilose around the margin of the truncate apex. Female flowers not 

 known. 



Mozamb. Blstr. German East Africa : Kondeland ; Ukangu Mountains, 

 near Langenburg, Qoetze, 894 ! 



17. C. richardiana, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1044, excl. 

 var. /). A shrub ; branches densely whitish-pubescent or toraentose. 

 Leaves crowded towards the apices of the shoots, with short internodes, 

 oblong-lanceolate, narrowed ,to the base, obtuse or rounded at the apex, 

 1 J-4 in. long, ^-1 in. broad, entire, membranous or thinly and rigidly 



