1052 ADDENDA. 



clothed with fringed scales. Styles S, erect, very stout, 2-lobed, 

 glabrous. Capsule very slightly o-lobed, ^ in. long, densely scaly. 

 Seeds smooth. — Sond. in Linnaea, xxiii. 11!) ; Baill. Adansonia, iii. 154 ; 

 Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 516; Sim, For. Fl. Cap. Col. 311. 

 O. mici'obotri/us, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. x. 85. Oxydectes gratissima, 

 O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. Gil. 



lower Guinea. Geniiaii South-West Africa : Hereroland ; Karnbib, Eanfanen, 

 ■514 ! X.iiias, Fleck, 463a ! and without precise locality, Fleck, 443a ! 



Mozaml}. Dlstr. Becliuanalaiid: N.E. Kalahari, at Mensouve, about 42 miles 

 north of Serovve, Sc/ibnland, 1614! 



Occurs also in South Africa. 



To be inserted near C. zambesictis, Miill. Arg., with which it is extremely closely 

 «llied, but it may usually be distinguislied by its smaller leaves shining on the 

 uj)per surface and rudimentary or sessile glands at the apex of the petiole. 



16. Croton megalocarpus. Hutchiiison. Add: Mildbr. Wiss. 

 Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. ii. 451. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Kilin.anjaro, ^«f?/ic7^ 294 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo: Beni district; Muera, Mildbraed, 2147> 

 2186; between Beni and Iluwenzori, Mildbraed, 2470. 



22«. Croton longiracemosus, llutdiinson. Branches terete, 

 glabrous or nearly so. JjCiwes oblong or oblong-elliptic, long-caudate- 

 acuminate, slightly cuneate and biglandular at the base, 3^-7 in. long, 

 H-2 in. broad, very thinly chartaceous or almost membranous, some- 

 what distantly crenulate with obtusely mucronate teeth, dull and almost 

 glabrous on both surfaces, when young with a few minute stellate hairs 

 on both sides ; lateral nerves 5-8 on each side, distinct on both surfaces, 

 prominent below, branched towards the margin; petiole H-- in. long, 

 glabrous or with a few scattered hairs ; stipules somewhat foliaceous, 

 linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 4-6 lin. long, glabrous. Flowers 

 direcious. Male racemes terminal, slender, 10-1*> in. long ; rhachis 

 sulcate, shortly stellate-pubescent ; bracts linear, subacute, about 1 lin. 

 long, glabrous or nearly so. Male flowers numerous, produced on the 

 raceme in fascicles of 5-8 ; pedicels slightly reHexed at the time of 

 flowering, '1-Z}, lin. long, stellate-tomentellous. Sepals ovate, obtuse, 

 '[^ lin. long, I lin. broad, thin, glabrous except for a few short hairs on 

 the margin at the apex. Petals similar to tfie sepals, glabrous outside, 

 villous within and on the margin. Disk glands large, subulate-linear, 

 glabrous. Stamens 11-12; filaments rather long, glabrous. Receptacle 

 villous. Female flowers not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : CIrcat Cameroon Mountain, 5ef^er, 24 I 

 Probably allied to C. as per if ol i its-, Pax, from which it differs in the shape and 

 texture of the loaves. 



:>la. Croton Lehmbachii, IlatcJdnson. A small tree about 10 ft. 

 high ; branches glabrous, tuberculate ; young branchlets slightly stellate- 

 puberulous. Leaves ovate-elliptic or oblong-ovate, obtusely caudate- 

 acuminate, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base,3-5 J in. long, crenulate, 

 fiubmembranous, very sparingly and minutely stellate-pubescent on both 



