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50. T. effusa, E. Mey. ex Harv. in Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 228 (1860) ; 
Szysz. Polypet. Thalamifi. Rehmann, 59 (1887). 
T. rhombvidea, var. tomentosa, Szysz. Polypet. Thalamifl. Rehmann, 59 (1887). 
T. pseudorhomboides, Szysz. l. c. 
T. pilosa, J. M. Wood, Natal Plants, t. 318, quoad iconem, non Roth. 
Shrub. Stem roughly stellate-pilose ; rays of the stellate hairs spreading, 
bases minutely tubercular. Leaves ovate, tricuspidate or undivided, or 
lanceolate, rather coarsely and irregularly serrate, rounded or slightly cordate 
at the base, shortly acuminate to the apex, 4-13 em. long, 2-8 cm. broad, 
roughly stellate-pubescent on both surfaces, more densely on the lower; 
petioles 14:5 ст. long. Buds 7-8 mm. long in a dried state, rather densely 
stellate-pilose. Horns of the sepals conspicuous. Stamens 10. Ovary 3-5. 
celled. Ripe fruit up to 1:5 em. in diameter including the prickles, black, 
glabrous, or sparingly and very inconspicuously pilose. 
Rhodesia : near Chirinda, 1100 m., Swynnerton, 1156! Transvaal: 
Shilouvane, Junod, 1052! on river-banks near the town of Lydenburg, Wilms, 
100! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 6317! 6318! 6319! Natal: near Durban, 
Gerrard, 469! without special locality, Williamson! Natal or Pondoland : 
between Umtentu River and Umzimkulu River, below 150 m., Drege! wood . 
clearings on the lower Umzimkulu, Bachmann, 867! 869! Pondoland ; near 
the St. John’s River, Bolus, 8811! 
Rehmann’s 6317, 6318, and 6319 differ but slightly from one another, and 
it is difficult to understand how Szyszylowiez came to place them in three 
distinct species. Possibly the erroneous description by Harvey (Fl. Cap. i. 
228) of the fruit of T. effusa as “hispid” may have misled him. 
Var. leiocalyx, nob. ; a typo foliis utrinque sparse pilosis tantum, alabastris 
glabris vel superne sparse stellato-puberulis. 
Natal: Pinetown, J. M. Wood, 254 ! Cape Colony, Hooi Vaal, mouth of 
the Kei River, Flanagan, 456 ! 
SPECIES EXCLUSA. 
T. Junodit, Schinz in Mém. Herb. Boiss. no. 10, 49 (1900) = Corchorus 
Junodii, N. E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1908, 287. 
SPECIES MINUS NOTA, A NOBIS NON VISA. 
T. holosericea, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. sér. 2, viii, (1908) 702. 
