Vtscicm,] LOKANTiTACE.E (Spragiie). 127 



tei^nate, peduncled, boat-shaped, S-flowered ; peduncle J,-J lin. lon^ ; 

 flowers^ pedicelled {Ecldon d Zeylter) ; berry pedicelled, globose, 

 smooth, 2-2^ lin. in diam. ; pedicel 1-U- lin. long. V, 'paucijlorum^ 

 var. Elides, Harv, in Harv, & Sond. FL Cap, ii. 580. 



Coast Region: Malmes})ary Div. ; near Driefontein, in Groene Kloof, Ecklon 

 d Zeyher, 2275! Cape Div. ; Hout Baj', on Earf^n raremosa, Murr., MacOivan^ 

 Ilfvh. Austr.-Afr., 1647 ! Camps Bay, near Oude Kraal, Pappe ! 



Differs from T. pauciflorum, Linn, f., to which it was reduced by Harvey, in 

 the branching, the acute, distinctly nerved leaves, and the red herriea. None of 

 the -specimens examined bore flowers ; but judging from the arrangement of the 

 berrie.Sj each bracteal cup ai^pears to bear a ceitral male and two lateral female 

 fiowers. 



8. V. rotundifolium (Linn. f. Suppl. 426) ; a small much-branched 

 shrub, glabrous or nearly glabrous in all its vegetative parts ; stem 

 terete, 2-2^ lin. in diam. J-1 ft. below the apex of the branchlets; 

 older branches 8- or 12-ribbed, younger branches and branchlets 

 hexagonal, the ui:>permost branchlets slightly compressed ; internodes 

 2-18 lin. long; leaves sessile or subsessile, broadly ovate (or more 

 rarely suborbicular), obtuse, acute or apiculate at the apex, rounded 

 at the base, 2_^-6 lin. long, l|-4 lin. broad, thickly coriaceous, 

 * obscurely 3-nerved, brown or blackish in a dried state, margin 



-. cartilaginous; cymules axillary, solitary or fascicled, S-flowered, 



^ usually composed of a central male and two lateral female flowers, 



fr more rarely of three female flowers ; peduncle -^^-l^ lin. long, 



^ produced yV~i Hn, or less beyond the bracteal cup; bracteal cup 



distinctly lobed, l|-lf lin, long; lobes ascending, ovate or ovate- 

 oblong, apiculate or subacute, -2- J lin. long, glandular- ciliolate ; 

 flowers monoecious, tetramerous ; male flowers : receptacle and 

 pedicel together obconical, | lin. long ; pedicel about f lin. long ; 



receptacular tube 4— J- lin. long ; petals marked off from the 



receptacle by a distinct groove on the outer surface, ovate or ovate- 

 deltoidj slightly unequal, -^^ lin. long, f-i lin. broad, the two 



outer separated ^ lin. from each other at the apex ; anthers elliptic, 



f-f lin. long ; female flowers : receptacle and pedicel together 



H~l| 1^"- l^^ig ? pedicel ^-| lin. long ; petals ovate or ovate-oblong, 

 acute, -3^-^ lin. long ; stigma projecting \-\ lin. above the insertion 

 of the petals; berry pedicelled, red, orange or yellow, ellipsoid, 

 2i lin. long; pedicel |-1 lin. long. Thunh. Proir, 31 ; 2^. Cap. ed. 

 SrhuJt. 154; DC. Prodr. iv. 279; Harv, in Earv, <t Sond. FL Cap. 

 ii. 580; EnfjJ, in Fngl Jahrh. xx. 131 ; ScMnz in Ball. Herh. Boiss. 

 iv. App. iii. 55; Van Tterjlt. in Bull Soc. Bof, France, xliii. 190: 

 Spmgue in Dt/er^ FL Trap, Afr, vi, i. 403, 1034. F. gJaucum, 

 EckL ({■ Zeyh, in S. Afr, Journ, 1830, 375; Eaum. 357. F. Zizuplti- 

 ynucronati, Dhifer^ Deutsch-Siidw.-Afr, bQ, partly, 



CoAsr Regiox: River^dale Div. ; Gorente River Farm, Maiv in Herb. GaJprn, 

 5324 ! Mossel Bay Div. ; on dry hills on the eastern side of the Gouritz River^ 

 Burcliell, 6422 I Uitenhage Div. ; Zwartkops River, on Salix sp., Ecklon I- Zeylter, 

 2272 I 2276 ! Zeyher^ 624 ! 2701 ! Port Elizabeth Div. ; Port Elizabeth, Pappe \ 

 Albany Div. ; Ecldon & Zeyher, 2272 ! Williamson 1 Grahamstown, on Euchn 



