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434 EUPiioitBiACEvE (Prain). [Cluytia, 



^-1 ft. higlr; "twigs pubescent; leaves sessile or nearly so, firmly 

 meratranoUS, lanceolate or linear or sometimes low down on the 

 stem ovate or ovate-lanceolate, somewhat blunt, narrowed to the 

 base, margin -usually distinctly revolute, |-| (rarely ^-1|) in. Ion 

 ^^—^ (rarely -o^l) in. wide, pubescent on both surfaces especially 

 when young, occasionally at length glabrescent ; flowers dioecious, 

 white or reddish, liiale from 1-4, female solitary; pedicels in male 

 equalling, in female rather shorter than the calyx ; male sepals 

 densely pubescent, narrow-obovate, with a 3-partite basal scale ; 

 petals narrow-obovate, glabrous, about as long as the sepals, 

 1 -glandular at the base ; rudimentary ovary very short, glabrous; 

 female sepals lanceolate, obtuse, with a usually 3-partite but 

 often 4-partite, occasionally 5-partite basal scale ; petals narrow- 

 obovate, almost as long as the sepals, slightly hairy or glabrous, 

 without a' basal scale ; ovary densely pubescent ; styles free, glabrous, 

 2-iid ; capsule ^ in. across, subglobose, densely pilose ; seeds brownish- 

 black, shining. TJiunh. FL Cap, ed. Schult, 270 ; Kravss in Flora, 

 1845, 82.- Sond, in Liniiseaj xxiii. 124:^ incl. var, fiijlahrata; Jiaill. 

 in Adansomdj iii. 152., ind. var. ji glahrata ; Miill. Arg. DC. Prodr. 

 XV. ii. 1053 ; pax VI Engl, Pfianzenr, Enpliorh, Cliiyt. 80 ; Prain in 

 Keio Halletin) 1913, 389. C, acuminata, E. Meyer in Drege Zivei Pfi- 

 Docitmente l7Ay partly and as to letter b only ; not of Linn, f, nor 

 of Tliunh. ' C, humiViiiy BernJi, ex Krauss l,c. 81. G. eckloniana, Miill. 

 Arg. I.e.. 1054,, , G, BustH^ Knauf Geogr, Verhr. Glnytia, 49, 54. 

 G, glahrata^ Pax l,c. C intertexta^ Pax I.e. C. fallacina, Pax l.c. 



Coast Region: Van Eliynsdorp Div. : Gift Berg, Plnlli^i^, 7393! Piquetberg 

 Div. ; Nieuweland, Zeyhcr, 3823 partly! Piqueniera Kloof, 2000 it. , SchhcMei\ 

 7958! 7959.! Tulbagli Div. ; near T " " " ' 



Zeyher, 56! .Paarl Div. ; Great Britain 

 WilmSj 3018:'!' Ck'pe Div. ; mountains e 

 Roxhurgh ! Mand d: Mairel Bcrylm ! Drkge, 200^! ]:iliott\ Mavloth.T^ ! JDiimmer, 

 97 c! Ecklon- ti\ Zejjher, 60! Harvey \ Prior \ Pappel Kj^avss, 1711! Frbmbling, 

 1358! Woll^>/.JJo'f, 25UI Frau Polemaaiil Stellenboscli Div. ; between Stellen- 

 bosch and Cape Flats, Burchell, S363 ! Caledon Div. ; between But Eiver and the 

 Zwart Berg, i'cZ.Zo.rt <t- Zcyker, 6S \ Swellendam Div. ; near Swellendam ! Bowie I 

 on the Tradouw-fierg, ^o?nc! Riversdale Div.; Riversdale. Sitst, 170! George 

 Div. ; near.GeorgcV^oir/e : Fort Beaufort Div. ; Adelaide, Marloth, 4028 b! 



Central Regioit: {'riuce Albert Div. ; Great Zwart Berg Range, Drei/e, 8230 

 partly ! Cradock Div. ; near Mortimer, 2600 ft., Miss Kni.vt I 



8. C. pterogona. (Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1048, incl. both 



vais.) ; a shrub^ 1-3 ft. high, mucli branched ; twigs spreading; finely 

 warted, glabrous ; stems j branches and twigs membranously winged ; 

 wings narroWj finely denticulate and lacerate; leaves subsessile, 

 firmly membranous, warted, punctate, linear-lanceolate or elliptic- 

 linear, apex subobtuse or shortly triangular, mucronulate and with 

 the margin" denticulate, sometimes flat, at others revolute, narrowed 

 in the lowGr fp.urth to the base, margin except at the apex from 

 slightly to markedly revolute, hyaline but not denticulate, ^-1$ ^^' 

 long, xo-^ in. wide, glabrous on both surfaces ; flowers dioecious, 

 white, male clustered, female paired or solitary; pedicels in both 



