y 



Clvyiia,] EUPHOKBiACE^: (Prain). 433 



Coast Rkgion: Ladismitli Div. ; Kannaland, between Cogmans Kloof and tlie 

 Gouritz River, £cklon tf: Zeyher, 67 ! George Uiv, ; 3Ioutagn, Marloth, 2831 ! 

 Albany Div. ; without precise locality, Boit^ie ! 



Central Region : Graaf Reinet Div. ; near Graaf Reinet, JBawie I Beaufort 

 West Div. ; Nieuwevelds Range near Beaufort West, 3000-5000 ft,, Brige, a! 



The specimens collected by Marloth in 1903 agree well with those of Ecklou and 



Zeyher from Kannaland^and those of Droge from Beaiifort West. Specimens; 



cultivated at Bei'Iin from seed of Marloth 2831 agree exactly with C\ uwane^u'cnUf 

 Hort. Kew. 



5. C. sericea (Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1053) ; a slirublet, 

 2—1 ft. high, much branched ; twigs fastigiate, silvery-silky ; leaves 

 sessile, firmlj^ membranous, lanceolate, acu/ninate, narrower! to the 

 base, margin flat, close set and subimbricately spreading, ^-| in. 

 ^^^gj 8~1 1^' wide, densely shining silvery silky on both faces ; 

 flowers didpcious, whitish ; male as well as female usually solitary 

 m the leaf-axils; pedicels short, silky; male sepals 'densely silky, 

 narrow-ovate, ^ in. long, with a 3-lobed basal scale ; petals clawed, 

 rouuded-obovate, shorter than the calyx, glabrous, with a 2-Iobed 

 basal scale ; rudimentary ovary silky at the base ; female sepals 

 oblong-ovate, acute, 4- in, long, with a simple basal scale ; petals 



without a basal scale, silky externally ; ovary densely tomentose ; 

 styles short, 2-fid ; seeds nearly black, shining. Pax In Engl. 

 Pflanzenr, EupJwrh, Cliiyt, 75, Jig. 24 A ; Pmin in Kew Bulletin, 

 1913, 389. 



Coast Regiox : Malmesbuiy Div. ; Groene Berg, Mund it- Maire^ 28 ! Malnies- 

 bnry, Kassner I 



6. C, Katharinae (Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb. Cluyt. 58) ; 



a shrub, 3-5 ft. high ; twigs softly silky with spreading hairs ; leaves 

 sessile or nearly so, membranous, lanceolate, somewhat blunt, 

 gradually narrowed to the base, margin slightly revolute, 1-3 in. 

 long, ^1- in. wide, when young closely white silky with longish 

 adpressed hairs, at length somewhat glabrescent ; flowers dioicious, 

 white, male usually in pairs, female usually soHtary ; pedicels in 

 hoth sexes very short ; male sepals oblong, silky, with a 3-4-partite 

 basal scale ; petals rhomboid, acute, glabrous, long-clawed, about as 

 long as the sepals, with a minute simple basal scale ; rudimentary 

 ovary narrow, glabrous ; female sepals wide-ovate, acute, silky, with 

 a 2-5-lobed basal scale ; petals oblong, acute, shorter than the sepals, 

 sparingly haiiy or glabrous, without a basal scale ; ovary densely 

 silky; styles free, glabrous, shortly 2-fid; capsule I in. across, 

 subglobose, densely silky-velvety ; seeds brownish-black, shining. 

 Pndn in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 389. C. sericea, Harv. Mss. In T.C.D, ; 



m of Mull Ara. 



7. C. pnbescens (Thunb. Prodr. 53 [Clntia]) ; a shrublet, usually 



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