Drypetes comorensis (Baill.) Pax & K. Hoffm.

McPHERSON, Gordon, 2000, Drypetes (Euphorbiaceae) in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, Adansonia (3) 22 (2), pp. 205-209 : 208

Drypetes comorensis (Baill.) Pax & K. Hoffm.

In Engl., Pflanzenr. 81: 259 (1922). — Humblotia comorensis Baill., Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris 1: 593 (1886). — Type: Humblot 366 (holo-, P). Although no collection number was cited by BAILLON, this specimen, now renumbered 1366, is almost certainly his original material .

Cyclostemon nitidus Pax, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 15: 527 (1893). — Type: Humblot 366 (holo-, B (not seen); iso-, P).

DISTRIBUTION. — Comoro Islands (known with certainty only from Mayotte).

Distinguished by its large leaves (10-21 cm long) with dentate margins, 5 sepals, ca. 15 stamens, and 3 carpels.

Drypetes darcyana McPherson , see description above.

Drypetes madagascariensis (Lam.) Humbert & Leandri

Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris), sér. 2, 4: 119 (1932). — Ilex madagascariensis Lam., Encycl., III : 148 (1789). — Type: Commerson s.n. (holo-, P). Cyclostemon aquifolium Scott-Elliot, J. Linn. Soc., Bot .

29: 49 (1891). — Drypetes aquifolium (Scott-Elliot) Pax & K. Hoffm. , in Engl., Pflanzenr. 81: 277 (1922). — Type: Scott-Elliot 2873 (holo-, P) .

Drypetes madagascariensis subvar. inermis Humbert & Leandri, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) , sér. 2, 4: 119 (1932). — Type: Humblot 551 (holo-, P; iso-, MO).

Drypetes madagascariensis var. perrieri Humbert & Leandri, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) , sér. 2, 4: 119 (1932). — Type: Perrier de la Bâthie 18260 (lecto-, P, designated here).

DISTRIBUTION. — Widespread in Madagascar.

With highly variable leaves (their margins often spiny-dentate), but distinguished by its glabrous petioles, 5 sepals, 3(-4) stamens, and 2 carpels.