Cephalocroton.'] cxxii. euphorbiace^ (prain). 845 



2-3-fid. Female : Sepals pinnately 4-lobed, lobes again many-lobulate 

 and usually glandular. Ovary tomentose ; styles very slightly connate 

 below, many-lobulate, glabrous. Capsule scabridly stellate-pubescent, 

 deeply 3-sulcate, § in. wide. — Mull. Arg. in Linnsea, xxxiv. 155, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 7G2 ; Baill. Adansonia, v. 148 ; Pax in Engl. Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr. C 240, and in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Adrian. 8, tig. 3, A-C ; 

 C. cordofanus^ var. betulinus, Miill. Arg. 11. cc. ; Pax I.e. 9. Acalypha 

 hetulina, Schweinf. PI. Nilot. 13 partly ; not of Retz. 



wile Ziand. Nubia : north of Maharrakat and Gednref, Schweinfurth, 845 ! 

 Matamnia, Schweinfurth, 846! Sennar: Ahwzor, Broun, 114c \ Sudan: Roseires, 

 Broun, 498 ! Malakai, Broun, 1690 ! on the White Nile, Petherick ! Hellet Idris, 

 Hartmann ! by tlie Atbara River, Steudner, 845: Mersalamiii, Steudner, 541! 

 Kordofan : Arashkol Mountain, Kotschy, 8! 118! and without precise locality, 

 Kotschy, 483 ! 



5. C. scabridus, Pax d- K. Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.- 

 Adrian, 9. Shrub; twigs verrucose, rigidly stellate. Leaves petioled, 

 rather firm, triangular-ovate, acuminate, base cordate, margin sharply 

 toothed, l|-2 in. long, |-1|- in. wide, harshly stellate-hirsute; petiole 

 J-| in. long, slender, harshly stellate-hairy; stipules IJ lin. long, 

 few-lobed. Heads globose, terminal, very small ; peduncle short, 

 tawny-pubescent ; female pedicels 1-2, \ in. long. Male : Calyx 

 sparingly pilose. Female: Sepals pinnately lobed. Ovary tomentose ; 

 styles shortly connate below, many-lobulate, glabrous. 



Wile Iiand. British East Africa : Ukumba, Hildehrandt, 2820 ! 



6. C. Pueschelii, Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xliii. 84. Shrub, 3-5 ft. 

 high ; twigs harshly stellate-pilose. Leaves sessile or nearly so, when 

 young often with a pink or purplish tinge, firmly membranous, ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, base rounded, truncate or rarely 

 subcordate, margin entire, 1-2^ in. long, J-lJ in. wide, when young 

 rather densely pilose, at length glabrous except for scattered stellate 

 hairs on the nerves and margin, somewhat harshly scabrous ; petiole 

 stellate-hairy, occasionally 2 lin. long ; stipules minute, very tomentose. 

 Heads globose, terminal, J in. across; peduncles |-1 in. long, softly 

 pubescent ; female pedicels 4-5, softly pubescent, J- J in. long, 

 occasionally 0. Male : Calyx glabrous ; lobes ovate-triangular, acute ; 

 rudimentary ovary columnar, with a 2-lobed or 2 -partite undilated tip. 

 Female : Sepals densely stellate-pubescent, pinnately 4-6-lobed. Ovary 

 finely pubescent ; styles connate below in a sparingly pilose column, long, 

 free, glabrous, much laciniate above. Capsule finely stellate-pubescent, 

 deeply 3-sulcate, J in. wide, — Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Adrian. 11. 

 C. mollis, var. pilosa^ Schinz ex N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 140. 



Xiower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Araboland; OkHsiina, Schinz, 

 2067 ! between Olukoiida and Unkuambi, Schinz, 2068 ! Ondonga, Rautanen, 205 I 

 207 ! Osliaiido, Schinz, 729 ! Otyitambi, Luderitz, 87 ! Damaraland ; Otyisondu, 

 Pueschel, 588 ! Otawi, Dinter, 832 ! Aiikas, Dinter, 832a ; Rietfontein, Seiner, 

 369! Hereroland ; Okaukueyo, Rautanen, 715! 



Mozamb. Bistr. Bechuanaland : Olifants Kloof, Fleck, 443a ! Kokong, 

 SchuUze ! Ngamiland : Kwebe Hills, 3000 ft., Lvgard, 51 ! Mrs. Lugard, 70 ! 



