I 



Cluytia.] EUPHORBIACE^ (Praiii). 435 



sexes shorter than the calyx, glabrous; male sepals obovate, verrucose- 



punctate, margins entire, glabrous, with a 2-3-lobate basal gland ; 

 petals cuneate-obovate, entire, 2-gIandular at the base ; rudimentary 

 ovary glabrous, cylindric with a much dilated discoid tip ; female 

 sepals ovate-lanceolate, margin denticulate at the apex, glabrous, 

 with a 2-3-lobate basal gland ; petals narrow obo\atc, glabrous, 

 margin denticulate at the apex, eglandular ; ovary glabrous, warted- 

 punctate; styles free, 2-fid ; capsule glabrous, warted, I in. across; 

 seeds black, shining. Pax in EngL PJlanzenr. Euplwrh, Cluyt, 78, 

 ,%. 26 F, incl. hoth vars ; Prain in Kew BnUetin, 1913, 3S9. C. 

 ahiternoidesy Willd, Sp. PL iv. 879, partly ; not of Linn. C. alater- 

 noides, y [august if oUa], E. Meijer in Dtrge, Zwei Pji. Bocumente, 174, 

 astoh only, O. alaternoidcs, y lanceolata^ (ifi revolutay Sond, in 

 Linnsea^ xxiii. 128, in part only and excL all Iocs, C, pohjgonoidcsy 

 var. heteropJi i/lla^ Krauss in Flora, 1845, 82, and var. angnsti/olia, 

 Krauss Lc.^as to Cape loc. only] not C. polygonoides, Linn, Cpoli- 

 folia, Sond. he 124 ; Baill. Adansonia, iii. 151 ; not of Jacq. 



Coast JIkgion : Paarl Div, ; between Paaii Mountaiu and Paardeberg.. under 

 1000 ft., DregeiQ. alaternoides, y angustifolia, b) ! Cape Div. ; many localities, 

 Berf/ius \ Mas^on \ Sieher \ Krehs I Lichtenfiteht ! Spidkaus \ Mund & Malre \ 

 Erl:}on & Zeyher, 62 partly! Krams \ Zeyher, 3S23 ! Earin/l Bolus, 3725! 

 i<chlechter, 13051 Wibm, 3G1G mainlv t 3617! Wolley-Dod, 1729! 195G ! 2630! 

 ^7Ul Dimmer, 1189! 19771 



9- C. polifolia (Jacq, Hurt. Schoenbr. ii. 67, t. 2o0j ; a shrub, up 

 to 4 ft. high ; stems slender, woody, much branched ; twigs rather 

 .spreading, glabrous ; leaves sessile, thinly coriaceous, opaque, lan- 

 ceolate or linear-lanceolate, obtuse but mucronulate, base cuneate, 

 margin not scabrous, always revolute, ^-g in. long, xV-yV ^^- ^^'^^^^ 

 quite glabrous on both surfaces, rather pale greyish-green especially 

 beneath; internodes faintly angular, under I in. long; flowers 

 dioecious, white, subsessile, male in 2-3^-flowered glomerules, female 

 solitary ; pedicels slender, glabrous ; male sepals oblong-obovate, 

 obtuse, with 3-4 small basal glands ; petals obovate, cuneate and 

 2-glandular at the base ; rudimentary ovary turbinate, glabrous ; 

 female sepals ovate-lanceolate, larger than the male, with a large 

 2-4-lobate basal scale ; petals cuneate-obovate, eglandular ; ovary 

 glabrous ; styles free, 2 fid ; capsule subglobose, | in. across ; iocds 



Wi 



Prain in Kew Bidletin, 1913, 390. C polif 



Pfl 



Cl^yt. 77. a acuminata, E. Meyer in Drege, Zioei Pfl. Docinnenli', 

 ^T^y letter a only] E, Meyer ex Sond, in Linw^a, xxiii. 125; not 

 of Linn. f. nor of TJninb, C, teretifolia, Sond. Lc. 124 ; Baill Adan- 

 '^onia, Hi. 152. C. polifolia, ^ tereiifolia, Midi. Arg. I.e. ; Pax I.e. 

 ^ - - - - ^^ meyeriana^ 



polifoU 



Mull. Am 



G, hrevifolia, bond. I.e., in small 



P<irt and as to Drege 8230 only. G. polifolia, b hrevijolia, Pax 



«»? small part and as to Diels 595. 



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