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412 EUPiiOPtBiACEiE (Prain), [Crotoii, 



J 1. C. rivularis (E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 176, 

 name ^sjxmilare\ ; Miill. Arg. in Linnsea, xxxiv. 112) ; shrub, 2-6 ft. 

 high ; branches cylindric, stellate-pubescent ; flowering twigs densely 

 tawny stellate-tomentose ; leaves alternate, distinctly petioled, 

 membranous, palmately 3-5-nerved at the base, midrib 3— 4-jugately 

 linerved, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, base rounded, 

 gin shortly rather irregularly serrate, lJ-3 in, long, f-1^ in. 

 wide, dark green, sparingly persistently stellate-pubescent above, 

 tioftly stellate-pubescent or -tomentose beneath ; petiole slender, 

 densely stellate-pubescent, J-1 in. long, usually without glands at 

 point of junction with blade ; stipules minute, caducous ; racemes 

 androgynous, up to 4 in. long, at ends of twigs, with 12-20 scattered 

 solitary or paired male flowers above and 3-4 scattered solitary 

 female flowers below; rhachis densely stellate-tomentose; bracts 

 small, ovate, stellate-pubescent; male pedicels 1 lin. long, female 

 pedicels ultimately 2-3 lin. long ; male sepals 5, ovate, obtuse, densely 

 stellate tomentose, \ lin. long ; petals orbicular, densely white- 

 villous at margins, thinly pubescent externally ; disc-glands small ; 

 stamens 10-15, filaments slender, glabrous; receptacle villous; 

 female sepals at first 1^ lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, at length accres- 

 cent and in fruit 5 lin. long, 2 lin, wide ; petals rudimentary or 

 obsolete ; disc 5-lobed, glabrous ; ovary densely tomentose with 

 stellate hairs ; styles 2-partite to the base, the segments linear, 

 sometimes again 2-partite5 glabrous ; capsule subglobose, \ in, across, 

 distinctly 3-sulcate and readily breaking up into 3 2-valved cocci ; 

 densely stellate-tomentose ; seeds oblong, subtriquetrous, angled on 

 inner face, rounded on the back, smooth. DC. Prodr, xv. ii. 602; 

 Siw, For. Fl Cape Col 311, t 141, fig, 4. C. dubius, S})r€ng. ex 

 EckL ^ Zeyh. in Linnsea^ xx. 213, name ; BallL Adansonia, iii. 154, 

 natne. Oxydaies rivularis, 0, Kunfze, _Rer. Gen. PL ii. 6 12 and 

 iii. ii. 289, 



Coast KEfiiox: Uitenhage Div. ; Busbmaus River, Zef/Jier, 854! near Addo, 

 1000-2000 ft., Drege, b! Ztifher, 330! Ecklon d; Zeyher, 28! 349! Tzamoes, 

 400 ft., ScJihchter, 2593 ! Enon and on the ZiITliebergllange, ueTir Bontje's Kiver, 

 1000-2000 ft., Br^ge, a (2363)1 near Uiteuhage. Fri(yr\ Port Elizabeth Div. ; 

 Van Stadens Kiver, Verreauxl Zelandel Springfielda, Mrs. Faterson, 2191! 

 Saudflat;^, Rogers, 187 ! Bathurst Div. ; Tc^rt Alfred. 2000 ft., Burckdl, 3797 ! 

 Potts, 194! Galpin, 3044! Schdnland, 793! BarttDavt/ 7890! between Port 

 Alfred and Kaffirs Drift, Barchdl, 3849 ! Gleufilling. Dvege, bb ! Albany Div. ; 

 Blue Krantz, BiircUll, 3643 ! near Grahamstown, Bowie ! Ecldon & Zeyher \ 

 Williamson I MacOican, 203 ! Bolm, 2682 ! Howison's Poort, Mrs. Ilutton ! and 

 without precise locality, Miss Boivkcr, 500 ! Bedford Div. ; Kagaberg, Scott £lhot, 

 664 I King \yilliamstown Div. ; banks of the Buffalo River, Ih-ege. c ! 4633 ! 

 Zeylierl King Williamstown, 1500 ft., Button, 95 ! Tyson, 968 ! Peddie Div. ; 

 Fredericksburg, Gill\ Komgha Div. ; near Kom-lia, 2000 ft., Flanagan, 715! 

 near the Kei River. 2000 ft., Schlechter, 6248 ! British Caffraria ; without precise 

 locality, Cooper, 58 ! Pappe I 



Eastern Region: Transkei ; Kentani, at Blackpool, 1000 ft.. Mm Fegle^ 

 174! 189! Tembuland; Perie Forest, Kuntze. Pondolaiid ; 3Iount Ajhff? 

 ScMedder \ Natal ? ; without precise locality, Cooper, 3141 ! 



2. C. sylvaticus (Hochst. apud Krauss in Flora, 1845, 82) ; tree 



60 ft. high, trunk 3 ft. in. cliam. : branches sulcate, glabrous ; 



