J^fq)Jujrhla,] KUfHORBlACE.K (Brown). 247 



IHv ; near Ea.st Luiulun, I^attraj/, 8S2 ! Kuiuglia Div. ; baiik.s of tlie Kei liiver, 



Central Kkgio.n ; Calviiiia Div. ; ]5itterfonteiiJ, Zcf/hrr, 1511: IViuce Albeit 

 ^iv. ; by the Gumka River, J//ni<? tt J/a/>Y, ir> ! Janseiuillo Div. ; ZuartniggeihS 

 ;^rcye, 8191! Graalf Reiiiet Div,; Kyueveldt Pass, iM/^s, :il2! Murraysbiirg 

 Div. ; near IMurmysburg, Tf/son, 3:J8 ! Albert Div., Cvopcr^ 78G ! 



ANkstkux Regiox: Great Naiuaqualaiid ; various localitieri, Pcar^ou, 3101! 

 3/36! -4285! 4327! 4689! 4769! 4776! 8181! Little Xaiiia<iualand ; between 

 Holgat River and the Orange River, Drege, 2S)53 ! 



Kalahaki Region: Gri(|ualand West; Kiinberlev, Mavloth, 745! Orange 

 River Colony ; Thaba Unchu, Barkc ! Sand River, Barkc \ Bloeuifonteiu, Buvit' 

 l^avy, 11S49: 11850! Transvaal; various localities, Behmnm}, 6673! WUms, 

 1338! Mm Leeudert-, 18! 86! Bortt-Davy, 51, 1164! 1194! 1226! 1459! 

 ^ar. ^: Orange River Colony; Sand River, B'irhv, 507! Bechuanaland ; near 

 the sources of the Kuruman River, BarcheU, 2476; between the sources of the 

 Kunimau River and Kosifontein, Bvrchell, 2535! Transvaal; Fourteen Streams, 

 Bnrtt-Dart/, 1544 ! Scliweizer Roucke, Burtt-Davy, 1695! Waterval, Mhs 

 Lcaidcvtz, 823 ! hills near Wilge River, Schlechter, 3744 ! near Pretoria, Kirk, 

 49 ! and without precise locality, Zeyher, 1542 ! 



Eastekn REGJOy : Natal; near Ladysmith, Gerrard, 611! Clairuionfc, Wood, 



1432 I near "Weenen, Wood, 4436 ! near Durban, Miss Oweif I and without precise 



locality, Gcrrard, 60 ! Var. ^ : near Tugela, Wood, 3552 ! near Durban, Miss 

 Oicen I 



\\heu \\orking out the Tropical African species of Etiphorhia I had not 

 investigated those of South Africa, but now that I have done so, I find that all 

 the names above referred tu this specie3 certainly belong to one and the same 

 plant. It therefi^re becomes necessary in accordance with the rule of priority to 

 adopt the name L\ hueqii'datera, Sond., for this species instead of that of 

 E. mmjumea, Hochst. andMSteud., adopted in the Flora of Tropical Africa, 

 because it is the first name for the plant that was published with a description. 

 h. ifueqailatera was published in 1850, and although the names E. parvifoUa 

 and E. sttigera were published b\' Drege in 1843, they are mere names in a 

 catalogue, unaccompanied by any description, and the name E, ganguinea was 

 not published until 1862, when Boissier gave a description of it, as he then also 

 did of E. parvifolia and E. sdigera for the first time. 



Also in Tropical Africa and Arabia. 



3* E. Schlechteri (Pax in Eu^l Jahrb. xxviii. 26); a perennial 

 leafy herb, 6-8 in. high ; stems apparently several from the same 

 root, erect, with erect branches, pubescent ; leaves opposite, 3-7 lin. 

 ^^^g? 1^-3 lin. broad, obliquel}' ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, very 

 uueciual and half-cordate at the base, minutely toothed or entire, 

 glabrous abo\'e, thinly pubescent beneath, apparently purplish 

 along the margins ; involucres solitary, axillary and in the forks of 



the branchlets, much shorter than the leaves, on peduncles h lin. 



long, somewhat pear-shaped, | lin. in diam., glabrous, M'ith 4 

 appendaged glands and 5 minute ciliate lobes ; glands l-)^ lin, in 

 their greater diam,, transversely elliptic or oblong, with a narrow 

 petaLjid entire white appendage on the outer margin ; capsule 1^^ lin. 

 iu diam., obtusely 3-angIed, tliinly pubescent with rather long and 

 somewhat adpressed hairs, exserted and recurved on a pedicel 

 nearly twice as long as the involucre; styles \ lin. long, free to 

 the base and very deeply bifid, with slender sisgnients ; seeds f lin. 

 long, ovoid-oblong, subacute at one ^n^j 4-angled, slightly rugulose, 

 reddish. 



