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V. coutmnvm, E. Meyer, was united by Harvey (I.e.) with V. capmsc, from 

 which it differs in the pedicelled berries, and the rounded lateral scale-leaves, which 

 are connate posticoualy. It is more closely allied to F. verrucosnm^ Harv., from 

 which it may be distinguished by the smooth berries. 



18. V- verrucosum (Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 581) : a 

 much-branched shrub; stem terete, about 2^ lin. in diam. 1| ft. 

 below the apex of the branchlets ; branches subterete, longitudinally 

 wrinkled in a dried state; branchlets slightly compressed, about 

 f lin. broad near the apex; internodes 4— li in- long ; leaves scale- 

 like, connate, spreading, rounded, ^-^ lin. long, margin scarious; 

 lateral scale-leaves subdeltoid, obtuse or acute, -^-^ lin. long^ 

 connate posticously, margin scarious, ciliate ; flowers dia'cious, 

 tetramerous ; male inflorescence consisting of 1-3 sessile fluwcr.?, or 

 of a 3-tlowered cymule, borne in a bracteal cup, or of a central 

 3-flowered cymule witli 1-2 flowers on each side; bracteal cup 

 broadly trough-shaped, If lin. long, ^ lin. broad, -f lin. high ; 

 lobes slightly ascending, rounded, nearly 4 lin. long, margm 



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scarious ; solid base of flower J^— | lin. long ; receptacular tube 



hardly | lin. long; petals deltoid-ovate, -|""| I^^- ^^^o? i^"^ ^^"' 

 broad at the base ; anthers trigonous, elliptic-oblong ia outline^ 

 ^ -| lin. broad ; female inflorescence consisting of 1-3 flowers, wi 

 or without bracteal cups ; bracteal cup (when present) embracing 

 only the base of the receptacle ; receptacle and pedicel together 

 1^ lin. long, obovoid ; receptacle coarsely and densely warted ; 

 pedicel v_| lin, long; style tetragonal, l~-% lin. long; stigma 

 projecting -^-^ lin. above the insertion of the petals ; berry con- 

 spicuously pedicelled, yellow, subglobose, 2h lin. in diam., coarsely 

 and densely ^varted; pedicel about | lin. long. Engl, in EngL 

 JaJirh. XX. 131, and xxviil 385; Sprague in Bijcr, FL Trap. Afr. 

 vi. i. 408, 



Kalahari Region': Transvaal; Magaliesberg, Sandtjaoitl 1G5 ! Tropic of 

 Capricorn, Nelsmi, 55G 1 



Eastkrx Region: Natal; Weenen, Mooi River Valley, ^utherhnnW Sinkwa&ir 

 Wood, 732 ! Sinkwasi, on Acacia sp., Wood, 3851 '. 3999 1 Tugela River, 

 Gerrard, 1653 ! 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



19- V. rigidum (Engl. & Krause in Engl. Jahrb. li. 471); 



branches and branchlets terete or with slightly compressed terminal 

 internodes, fairly stout, rigid, slightly striate longitudinally, hardly 

 thickened at the nodes ; internodes -^-^ in. long ; leaves minute, 

 scale-like ; flowers dioecious, tetramerous ; male inflorescence not 

 known ; female inflorescence 1-flowered, or more rarely few-flowered ; 

 bracteal cup sessile, rather tluckly coriaceous, bilobed, lobes broadly 

 ovate, acute, about 1 lin. long, concave, rigid ; petals connate at 

 the base, subovate, about 1 lin. long, rather thick, slightly exceeding 

 the bracts; unripe berries ovoid, obtuse, 1 lin. long^ finely warted. 



Westeks Regio:*: Great ^'amaqualand ; on the Us River, near Great Kaui3> 

 on Sencocoma skepperioide^, Schinz, Enyhr, 64:^5. 



