962 cxv. EUPHORBiACE.E. [Cyclostemon 



4 in. in diameter, glabrous except tlie inflorescence ; branches and 

 branchlets spreading, dichotomous, leafy, pallid, rather slender ; 

 leaves alternate, ovate-oblong, nan'owly acuminate at the apex, 

 somewhat unequal and cordate at the broad base, chartaceous, 

 pale green and shiny above, subglaucescent beneath, very shortly 

 petiolate, undulate and serrulate-ci'enulate on the margin, 2 to 4 

 in. long by ^ to 1^ in, broad ; venation slender, not conspicuous ; 

 stipules lanceolate, paucidenticulate, ciliate about the apex, very 

 deciduous ; female flowers axillary, yellowish, solitary, subsessile, 

 apetalous ; sepals 5, imbricate, rotund, i to i in. in diameter, 

 thickly beset with short hairs on both faces, shortly ciliate, thickly 

 coriaceous; disk hypogpious, saucer-shaped, i in. in diameter, 

 unequally 5-cleft, somewhat fleshy, shortly ciliate ; the segments 

 broad, very obtuse, opposite the sepals ; ovary 2-celled, tomen- 

 tellous, somewhat compressed, subquadrate, i in. long and broad ; 

 styles very short ; stigmas thick, dilated, i in. in diameter ; 

 ovules geminate. 



PuNGO AxDONGO. — In wooded rocky parts of Barranco da Pedra 

 Songue, in the prtesidium, sporadic ; a few specimens in female fl. Jan. 

 1857. No. 1268. 



This species has much the aspect of C. argutusM.ViQ\\. arg., but it 

 differs by the subsessile flowers. 



The following No. is perhaps a new species of this genus ; it has 

 the aspect of Sapotacese : — 



A very elegant bush, 5 to 12 ft. high, perhaps a young tree; 

 trunk straight ; branches glabrate, dark-ashy, nodulose or obtusely 

 tetragonal ; branchlets alternate, tawny-brown, puberulous or 

 tomentellous with short pallid hairs, leafy ; leaves alternate, 

 obovate-oblong or narrowly elliptical or oval, obtuse or subacute 

 at the apex, obtusely narrowed or subcuneate at the shortly 

 petiolate base, firmly and thinly coriaceous, subglabrate or with 

 scattered inconspicuous hairs and pale subglaucescent green above, 

 pilose along the raised tawny-brown midrib and drab beneath, 

 delicately penniveined, very delicately reticulate beneath, entire, 

 1 to 4^ in. long by \ to 1^ in. broad; petiole yV to i in. long, 

 rather thick, hairy ; stipules roundish, about ^ in. long, densely 

 hairy on the back, glabrous within, very caducous ; flowers 

 apparently dicecious ; the male flowers solitary geminate or 

 ternate, axillary or lateral on the branchlets, bibracteate at the 

 base, svibglobose, subsessile or very shortly stalked ; bracts 

 roundish, tomentellous on the back, concave, about i in. long ; 

 flower-bvids subglobose, about ~ in. long, tomentellous ; calyx 

 apparently consisting of about 5 imbricate rather thick broad 

 obtuse segments ; petals apparently ; stamens numerous ; 

 filaments free among themselves ; ovary 0. 



HuiLLA. — In rocky moist parts of small woods between Catumba 

 and Ohai ; male fl-bud, beginning of April 18G0. No. 1273. 



