846 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE/E (prain). [CephfdocrotoTi. 



7. C. mollis, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Moasamh. Rot. 99, t. 17. 

 Shrub, much-branched from near the base ; twigs stellate-velvety. 

 Leaves sessile or nearly so, very firm, oblong-ovate or elliptic, obtuse, 

 base rounded, margin entire, IJ-SJ in. long, J-| in. wide, pubescent 

 above, stellate-velvety beneath, veins beneath distinct ; petiole under 

 1 lin. long, velvety; stipules linear, minute, spreading* Heads 

 globose, terminal, \ in. across; peduncles J in. long, velvety; female 

 pedicels 3-4, velvety-pubescent, i-J in, long. Male: Calyx softly 

 pilose ; lobes ovate, acute ; rudimentary ovary columnar, with dilated 

 lobulate tip. Female : Sepals densely velvety, pinnately 5-6-lobed. 

 Ovary finely pubescent ; styles connate below in a tomentose column, 

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

 3-sulcate, J in. wide. — Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 761 ; Pax in 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 240, and in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.- Adrian. 

 10 ; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 199. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; Sena, Feters ! 

 Gazaland : Lo^er Umswirizwi River, 1000 ft., Swynnerton, 309 ! British Central 

 Africa : Nyasaland : Zomba, Purves, 119 ! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 958 1 



53. HASSKAKLIA, Baill. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 308. 



Flowers dioecious, apetalous. Male : Calyx thinly membranous, 

 3-partite, lobes subvalvate in bud. Stamens 3 ; filaments very short; 

 anthers erect, 4-celled ; cells ovoid-globose, at length free from the 

 base and opening longitudinally from the apex downwards on the inner 

 face. Rudimentary ovary columnar or 0. Female : Calyx minute or 

 3-partite. Hypogynous disk of 3 petal-like scales, alternate with and 

 nearly as long as the carpels. Ovary fleshy, 3-celled ; ovules in each cell 

 solitary; styles flat, dilated, spreading, adpressed to the top of the 

 ovary. Capsule obscurely 3-dymous, breaking up into 3 cocci. Seed 

 smooth, caruncle large ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. — Trees, 

 shrubs, or herbs, quite glabrous. Leaves alternate or opposite, short- 

 petioled, shining, penninerved. Flowers lateral ; males in catkin-like 

 spikes numerous ; females few. 



Species 3, endemic. The third species, which lias been recently discovered, will 

 be described in the addenda to this volume. 



Leaves alternate . . . . . • . 1. H. didymostemon. 



Leaves opposite 2. H. oppositifolia. 



1. H. didyxnostexnon, Paill. Adansonia, i. 52. Shrub 8-15 ft. or 

 a medium to tall tiee, 40-80 ft. high ; twigs glabrous. Leaves alternate, 

 short-petioled, membranous, obovate- oblong, cuspidate, base cuneate, 

 narrowing to the petiole, margin entire, 7-9 in. long, 2J-5 in. wide, 

 bright green, somewhat polished and glabrous on both surfaces; petiole 

 4-5 lin. long. Male : Calyx globose in bud, under 1 lin. wide, yellowish ; 

 flowers clustered in short axillary spikes. Female : Calyx small ; flowers 

 racemose or solitary. Capsule 3-lobed, 3-4 lin. wide. — Miill. Arg. in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 774 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, 257 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 



