430 EUPHORBiACE^ (Pram). \Cluytio 



Leaves se^isile or nearly so, lJ-2 times as loag as 

 broad ; twigs subcylindric ; 

 Stems prostrate \ twigs finely pubescent ; leaves 

 glabrous except for a few bairs along midrib 



above (34) vaccinioides. 



Stems erect : 



Twigs and leaves finely pubescent (35) Tkunbergii. 



Twigs and leaves quite glabrous (36) crassifolia. 



Leaves polished, their margin revolute ; all parts 



glabrous 



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... (37) polygonoides. 



1. C, ericoides (Thunb. Prodr. 53 [CZw/za]) ; an underslirub, 

 1-2 ft. high ; branches stoutish, again branching, twigs spreading, 

 puberulous; leaves sessile, coriaceous, opaque, linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, base cuneate, margin involute, ^-^ in. long, -^^ in. wide, erect, 

 subimbricate, sinning, quite glabrous, convex below and concave 

 above ; flowers dioecious, male usually in pairs, female solitary from 

 perulate axillary swellings, scales numerous, dark-brown ; pedicels 

 shorter tlian the calyx, puberulous ; male sepals oblong or ovate, 

 obtuse, with a large 1-3-lobate basal gland ; petals cuneate-obovate, 

 clawed, with a solitary small gland ; rudimentary ovary very short, 

 rounded, glabrous ; female sepals narrower and larger than the 

 male, with usually an entire basal gland ; petals as in male, but 

 eglandular ; ovary glabrous ; styles free, 2-partite ; capsule \ in. 

 across, subglobose, smooth; seed black, shining. Willd, Sp, PL iv. 

 880 ; Pers. Sf/n. ii. 636 ; Pair. Encyc, Suppl. ii. 303 ; Thml). Fl 



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Mey 



Mull 



DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1055, parthj and excl, cit BoU Beg, ; Pax in Engl. 



Pjlanzenr. Euphorb, Cluyf. 81, partly and as to fig. 19 -H, J only, and 

 excl. cit, BoL Beg, ; Prain in Keiv Bidletin^ 1913, 384. C. ericoides. 



var 



Ykv..^P, pachyphylla (Prain, I.e. 385); undershrub, 1-2 ft. high; branches 

 stout, simple or sparingly branched ; when branched, branchlets asceudiug, twi^ 

 puberulous; leaves ; naiTowly ovate-Ian ceolate, acute or acuminate, base wide 

 cuneate, J-| in. long, J-J in. wide, more or lesa convex below, usually concave, 

 but at times flat, except for the involute margin above. C. ericoides, E* Meyer, 

 I.e. parthj ; Sond. Ix. paHly ; BailL Lc. partly ; MiilL Arg. I.e. partly ; Pax Ic 

 U9 to fig. 26 A-E only ; hardly of Thunh. C. amhigua, Pax d: K. IToffm. Lc S2— 

 il^e state loith leaver fiat above. C. pacltyphylU, Spreng. Mss. in sched. Zeyk. 



Var. 7, tenuis (Send. he. 122) ; an undershrub, 1-2 ft. high ; stems slender ; 

 branches rather numerou-s, very slender, fastigiate, twigs puberulous ; leaves 

 linear, |— § in, long, ^j. in, wide, convex below, usually concave but occasionally 

 flat except for the involute margin above. BaUl. I.e. 151 ; Prain, I.e. 385. C. 

 tenuifolia, Willd. Lc. ; Pers, l,c. ; Pwr. Ic. 302 ; Spreng. Syst. iii. 49 ; Dietr. 

 Syn. V. 455 ; BaiU. I.e. 152; MilU. Arg. I.e. ; Pax I.e. C. ericoides, Alt. Hort. 

 Kew. ed. % v. 423 ; Edits. Bot. Reg. t. 779, excl. .vjn. Thunb. and Willd. ; SonJ. 

 Lc.paHly, a.Uo ' Knoblauch' loc. only; MUll. Arg. I.e. as to Bot. Beg. cit.', P(i^ 

 I.e. a% to Bot. Reg. cit. ; mi of TJuuih. C. gracilis, Baill. I.e. 151. 



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