812 cxxii. EUPHORBiACKfi (hutchinson). [Clui/tia. 



2-5 in. long, |-1J in. broad, membranous, sparingly pubescent on both 

 surfaces or glabrous ; lateral nerves 4-7 on each side, slender, looped 

 well within the margin, slightly raised below ; petiole 4-7 lin. long, 

 pubescent. Flowers dioecious, or at least normally so ; males numerous 

 at each node ; pedicel about IJ lin. long, pubescent. Sepals oblong, 

 rounded at the apex, 1 lin. long, pubescent outside, with a 8-4-fid scale 

 at the base within. Petals obovate-spathulate, nearly as long as the 

 sepals, membranous, glabrous. Glands in the base of the flower 10-20. 

 Female flowers solitary or 2-3 together ; pedicel not more than 1 lin. 

 long in fruit, pubescent. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 1^- lin. long, 

 rather densely pubescent outside, with a 2-3-fid scale at the base inside. 

 Petals spathulate-rhomboid, clawed, 1 lin. long, adpressed-pubescent 

 outside. Ovary triangular, glabrous ; styles erect, connate towards the 

 base, bilobed, lobes linear, glabrous. Capsule slightly 6-ribbed, nearly 

 3 lin. in diam., glabrous. Seeds ellipsoid, 1 J lin. long, black and shining, 

 smooth, with a rather small bifid yellow caruncle. — Pax in Engl. 

 Pflanzenr. Eaphorb.-Cluytiese, 60. C. richardiana, var. trichopiiora^ 

 Miill. Arg. in DO. Prodr. xv. ii. 1044. C. kilimamlscharica, Engl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop, Afr. 285. C. brachyadenia, Yolkens ex Pax in 

 Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Clu}i:iese, 61. C. rohusta, vars. genuhia, poly- 

 phylla and kilimandscharica, Pax, I.e. Gl. C. stenophylla, Pax <k, K. 

 Hoffm. I.e. G3, partly. 



XVile iMand. Abyssinia: without precise locnlity, Quartin-Dillon S^ Fetit, 

 217! Schimper, 1056 \ liritisli East Africa : Larauru, 5r//.^e/-, 233 ! Mau Plateau, 

 Baker, 83 ! Abora, Fischer, 529 ! Lake Xaivasba, Stuhlmann, 936 ! 



Mozamb. Bistr. Genuan Kast Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu, Volkens, 

 620 ! 743 ! 748 ! 772 ! 826 ! 1460 ! Met/er, 145 ! 331 ! Engongo-Engare, 

 Ukliff, 506! liaku, Jaerjer, 223! (iurui, Jaeger, 258! Gazaland: Melsetter 

 district, iSwynnerton, 1530! Mount l^ene, iitoynnerton, 6042! Chirinda district, 

 Svoynnerton, 1531a ! 



Var. acutifolia, Volkens ex Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Eupliorb.-Cluytieae, 61. 

 Leaves acute, but otbcrwise similar to the type. 



KTlle Iiand. Uritish East Africa: Aberdare Mountains, -ffcZZe> ,' 



Mozaxnb. Distr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, Engler, 1816 ! Mosclii, 

 JJhlig, 121 ! 1117 ! Mawen/i Kiver, Volkens, 888 ! 



Var. rhododend roides. Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 85. Leaves narrowly oblanceo- 

 late, subacute, less than A in. broad. — C.rohusia, var. salicifuUa, Volkens ex Pax in 

 Engl. Pflanzenr. I.e. 



Mozamb. Sistr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Yumba ya Nguaro, 

 Volkens, 2010 ! slope of Deani volcano, Jaeger, 400 ! nortli-west sides of Lomalasin, 

 Jaeger, 468 ! 



Swynnerton's specimens quoted above, which are entirely female, appear to be a 

 more glabrous form of the typical plant. 



20. C. polyadenia, Pax in Engl. Jahrb, xliii. 84. A shrub ; 

 branches terete, pubescent. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, subacute at 

 the apex and base, lJ^-2 in. long, 3-7 lin. broad, firmly membranous, 

 nearly glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral nerves about 6 on each side, 

 faint, looped well within the margin ; petiole up to 2 lin. long, usually 

 much shorter, slightly pubescent. Flowers dioecious. Male flowers in 



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