f 



392 EUPiiORBiACE.^ (Iliitcliinson). [riij/Uanthus, 



glabrous; flowers raonoecious, solitary, the males in the upper 

 part, the females in the lower part of each braiichlet; male 

 flowers : pedicel | lin. long, glabrous ; sepals 5, broadly ovate, 

 obtuse, with a distinct midrib and membranous margin; disc- 

 glands flat and thin; more or less transversely obloug, smooth; 

 stamens 5 ; filaments free ; anthers dehiscing at the side, with the 

 line of dehiscence continuous between the cells ; female flowers : 

 pedicel | lin. long, rather stout, glabrous ; sepals 5, ovate, obtuse, 

 f lin. long, A lin. broad, with a broad midrib and membranous 

 margin, glabrous ; disc saucer-shaped, thin, quite entire, glabrous ; 

 ovary lobed, smooth ; styles short, spreading over the top of the 

 ovary, shortly bilobed, not swollen at the tips ; capsvile trilobed, 

 depressed, 1| lin. in diam., smooth and shining; seeds finely and 

 densely pitted rm the back. P. lenellus, var. scdbrifolius^ Mull. Arg. 

 in Linnaea, xxxii. 7 ; vai'.parvalus, Mull. Arg, in DC Prodr. xv. ii. 339. 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; Aapies River, Burke \ Zeylier, 1508 I 



6. P. humilis (Pax in Engl. Jahrb. x. 34) ; woody, much-branched 

 from the base ; branches slender, finely puberulous ; leaves ovate 

 or ovate-oblong, acute or subacute, rounded or almost truncate at 

 the base, 1^—4 lin. long, f-2^ hn. broad, thinly coriaceous, finely 

 puberulous on both surfaces, without visible nervation ; petiole 

 \ lin. long, puberulous ; stipules subulate-lanceolate, very acute, 

 nearly glabrous ; flowers monoecious; males few, solitary, axillary ; 

 pedicel ^^ lin. long, glabrous ; sepals 5, obovate, scarcely J lin. long, 

 glabrous, membranous ; disc-glands flat, transversely oblong, smooth ; 

 stamens 5 ; filaments free ; female flowers more numerous than the 

 males, axillary, solitary ; pedicel scarcely h Hn. long, glabrous ; 

 sepals 5, as in the male but larger; disc small, slightly undulately 

 lobed, glabrous ; ovary smooth ; styles short, spreading over the 

 top of the ovary, bilobed; capsules depressed -globose, 1^ \n\. in 

 diam., smooth; seeds triquetrous, rounded on the back, § lin. long, 

 with about 10 lines of minute dots on the back and also on the 

 flattened sides. 



Kalahari Region : Griqualand West ; near Griquatown, Orpen ! Albania, 

 Mt$. Barber, 24 ! Kuruman, Marloth, 1087 ! Transvaal ; Roodepoort, near Warm 

 Bath, Bolus, 122S3 ! Boshveld, Rehmann, 5337 ! Pretoria Hills, 4500 ft., Miss 

 Leendettz, 35 ! Burit-Bavy, 3970 ! and without precise locality, Sanderson ! 

 Orange River State ; rocky hills near the Morlder River, Mrs. Barber, 7 \ Bloem- 

 fontein. Mm. Fotts^ 473 I 



7. P. nummulariEefolius (Poir. Encycl. v. 302, partly); a small 



slender branched nndershrub, up to H ft, high ; stems and branches 

 glabrous; leaves obovate or suborbicular, sometimes subacutely 

 mucronate, rounded or subacute at the base, 3-9 lin. long, 2-5 lin. 

 broad, membranous, glabrous on both surfaces, sometimes glaucous 

 below ; lateral nerves 5-7 on each side, distinct on the lower 

 surface ; veins hardly visible ; petiole J-f lin. long, glabrous ; 

 stipules lanceolate, subacute, 1-^ lin, long, entire, glabrous; flowers 

 moncecious, in axillary fascicles on the young branchlets, females 



