Aleur'des.] cxxii. euphorbiace^ (hutchinson). 815 



fleshy, nearly 2 J in. in diam., slightly 4-grooved, glabrous, 1-2-seeded. 

 Seeds acute, wrinkled. — Forst. Prodr. G8 ; Hemsl. in Kew Bulletin, 

 1906, 121. A. moluccana, AVilld. Sp. PI. iv. 590; Mull. Arg. in DC. 

 Prodr. XV. ii. 723, and in Mart. Fl. Bras. xi. ii. 304, t. 45 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austral, vi. 128 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 384 ; Pax in Engl. 

 Pflanzenfam. iii. 5, 73, tig. 44 ; Drake del Castillo, Fl. Polyn. Fran^. 

 183 ; Urban, Symb. Antill. iv. 348 ; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.- 

 Jatroph. 129. A, commutata, Geiseler, Crot. Monogr. 82. A. Amhlnux, 

 Pers. Syn. ii. 587. A. cordifolia, Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, i. 49, not 

 Drifandra cordata, Thunb. A. lohata, Blanco, Fl. Filip, ed. i. 75(1. 

 A. lanceolata, Blanco, I.e. 757. Camirium cordifolinin^ Ga^'rtn. Fruct. 

 ii. 195, t. 125, fig. 2. C. oleosum, Reinw. ex Bluriie, Cat. Gew. Buitenz. 

 104. Jatropha onoluccana, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 1006. 

 Upper Guinea. Cameroons, Wi^ikler, 58a. 



Mozamb. Slstr. German East Africa : Usambara ; \^CYQ\\\f\., Schpffler,\19>\ 

 Portuguese East Africa : cultivated at Mauibone, Johnson, 14 ! 



A native of ^Malaya and Polynesia, and naturalised in ranny tropical countries. 



Mallotus Melleri, Sim, Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa, 107, not of Miill. 

 Arg. (Sim, 5560), possibly belongs liere. 



43. CYRTOGONONE, Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 231. 



Flowers dicecious, dichlamydeous. Male : Calyx globose, closed in 

 bud, splitting into 2-3 valvate lobes. Petals 5, occasionally 6, con- 

 torted-imbricate, as long as or longer than the calyx, free. Stamens 

 usually 27-30, occasionally more numerous, outer distinctly 2-seriate 

 with a few distinctly central, accompanied by as many inter-staminal 

 glands as there are stamens, those of the outer series alternate with, the 

 central ones mixed with, the filaments ; filaments free, glabrous, about 

 thrice as long as the anthers ; anthers dorsifixed, erect in bud, 2-celled ; 

 cells longitudinal, introrse, dehiscence longitudinal. Kudimentary 

 ovary 0. — A medium to lofty tree, twigs, flowers and leaves beneath 

 densely silvery-lepidote. Leaves long-petioled, large, alternate, entire 

 or faintly 3-lobed, penninerved, 2-glandular at the junction with the 

 petiole ; petiole thickened at the apex and base ; stipules minute. 

 Flowers rather large, in ample terminal panicles of few-flowered cymes ; 

 bracts minute. 



Species 1, endemic. 



1. C. argentea, Prain in Keio Bidletin, 1911, 232. A tree, 

 30-1 ()0 ft. high; twig? densely silvery-lepidote. Leaves long-petioled, 

 coriaceous, elliptic or obovate-oblong, abruptly acuminate, base wide- 

 cuneate or rounded, margin entire or occasionally with 2 teeth or 

 minute lobes near the apex, 6-10 in. long, 3-5 in. wide, dark green, dull 

 and glabrous above, with 2 distinct glands at the apex of the petiole, 

 beneath uniformly densely silvery-lepidote; petiole lepidote, 2J-4 in. 

 long ; stipules minute. Flowers in ample terminal narrow pyramidal 

 panicles 10-12 in. long, 4 in. across at the base ; rhachis lepidote with 



