924 cx.vii. EuriiuKiuAC E.t: (puain). [Xecepsia 



<5olitary, axillary, 4-10 in. long ; ihachis angular, rigid, tawny-puberu- 

 lous ; bracts clustered, strongly imbricate, ovate, acute, rigid, striate, 

 subscarious, pubescent, 1-2 lin. long, with male flowers in each axil and 

 a central female, or with only male flowers, or with only a solitary 

 female flower. Male flowers : Calyx in bud ovoid, subacute ; seg- 

 ments 4, valvate, puberulous externally ; pedicels puberulous, 1 lin. 

 long. Petals 0. Stamens about 30, arising from a subglobose 

 receptacle, free, with small oblong densely pubescent glands inter- 

 *>persed among the free filaments ; anthers introrse, 2-celled ; cells 

 ovate, separated by a somewhat widened connective slightly produced 

 beyond them. Female flowers : Sepals 5, imbricate, triangular or 

 ovate, acute, puberulous. Ovary 3-celled, densely tawny-setose, seated 

 on a thick flat disk ; styles very slightly connate at the base, somewhat 

 recurved, 2-fid, pubescent outside and at the base inside, stigmatic and 

 fimbriate-papillose on the inner face above ; cells 1-ovuled. 



Upper Guinea. Sierm Leone; without precise locality, A/zelius, 29! 

 Cuiueroons: HipiuJc, Zenker, 3040! 



G3. CROTONOGYNOPSIS, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 328. 



Flowers dioecious, apetalous. Male : Calyx ovate-conic and closed in 

 bud, splitting into 5 (less often 4) valvate ovate acute lobes. Petals 0. 

 Stamens 12-15; filaments long, free; anthers ovate-oblong, slightly 

 apiculate, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally ; receptacle with ovate- 

 oblong glands outside and among the stamens. Rudimentary ovary 0. 

 Female: Calyx 5- (rarely 4-) lobed ; lobes triangular, acute. Disk 

 cupuiar, with 4-5 marginal protuberances alternating with the calyx- 

 •segments. Ovary 3-celled, cells 1-ovuled ; styles 3, free, lacerate at the 

 tips, — A shrub or tree, with stout branches. Leaves alternate, firmly 

 membranous, sessile, Male flowers in racemes fascicled on swellings on 

 the branches, subtended by concave bracts. Female flowers in axillary 

 racemos, 



A single eiulemic species. 



1. C. usaxnbarica, Pax in Emjl. Jahrh. xxvi. 328. A shrub or 

 sniall tree 12-30 ft. high; bark yellowish. Leaves sessile, spathulate- 

 lanCeolate, acuminate, base auriculate-subcordate, margin faintly toothed, 

 12-14 in. long, 3 in, wide beyond the middle, narrowed to J in. above 

 the slightly widened base, penninerved, firmly membranous, dull green 

 above, paler beneath, glabrous on both surfaces; stipules 0. Flowers 

 dirty white. Male racemes 1 ^-2 in, long, fascicled on old wood ; rhachis 

 pubescent ; pedicels pubescent, jointed a little above the base, li--^ lin. 

 long ; bracts small, ovate, acute, pubescent. Calyx usually 5- (rarely 4-) 

 partite, glabrous, hyaline. Stamens 12-15 ; filaments slender, glabrous. 

 Disk-glands oblong, uniformly distributed over the disk. Female 

 racemes axillary, solitary, pendulous, 2J-3 in, long ; rhachis, pedicels 

 and bracts as in the males. Calyx usually 5- (rarely 4-) partite ; 

 segments triangular, acute, herbaceous, pubescent externally. Disk 



