436 EUPHOEBIACE^ (Plain). [Clnytia. 



South Afric^v : cultivated specimens ! 



Coast Eegion: Van Rhynsdorp Div. ; Gift Berg, 1000-2000 it,, Phillips, 

 7390! Western descent from the Bokkeveld, D/e?6^, 595! Clanwillian Div. ; Cedar- 

 berg Range, on Sneeuw Kop, 4500 ft., Bodkin ! Pearson & Pilla/is, 5825 ! at 

 PakhTiis Pass, Bolus, 9089! Oliphant River, Penther, 889! Stormvlei, near 

 Wupperthal, Lelpold, 495! Piquetsberg Div. ! Piqueniers Kloof, 950-1000 ft., 

 ScJilechter, 49361 7938 ! 7939 ! Malmesbury Div. ; Paardeberg, Bcklon it Zeyher, 

 (>1 partly 1 near Mooreesberg, 500 ft., Bolus, 99S0 ! near Hopefield, Bachmann, 

 112 ! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, 1000-2000 ft., Bregel Swellendam Div. ; 

 hills near Riet Kuil, EcUon & Zeyher, 64 ! Zeyher, 3835 I near Swellendam, 

 Mund I Riversdale Div. ; Mius Kraal, near Garcias Pass, 1500 ft., Galpin, 4568 ! 

 George Div. ; near George, Mund ! Knysna Div. ; Plettensbergs Bay, Bowie ! 

 Krehs ! Uniondale Div. ; without precise locality, Newdegate, 2463 ! Uitenhage 

 Div. ; Van Stadens Berg, Drege, 8234 a I Port Elizabeth Div, ; Van Stadens 

 River, Mrs, PatersoUj 884 ! 



Ckntkal Region : Prince Albert Div. ; Great Zwart Berg Range, Drejc, 8230 

 partly ! at Zwart Berg Pass, 3600 ft., Bolas, 12285 ! 



10. C. brevifolia (Sond. in Linnsea, xxiii. 120, excL Drege 8230); 

 a shrub, up to 3 ft. high ; stems slender, woody, much branched ; 

 twigs subfastigiate, glabrous ; leaves very shortly petioled, thinly 

 coriaceous, opaque, linear, obtuse but mucronulate, base cuneate, 



margin not scabrous, much revolute, -^— ^ in. long, 7rg-rV ^^- ^'^^^^ 

 quite glabrous on both surfaces, dark green ; internodes faintly 

 angular, under \ in. long; flowers dioecious, white, subsessile, male 

 in 2~3-flowered glomerules, female solitary ; pedicels slender, 

 glabrous ; male sepals oblong- obovate, obtuse, with a 3-4-lobed basal 

 scale ; petals obovate, cuneate and 2-glandular at the base ; rudi- 

 nfientary 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 ; seeds black, shining. BailL Adan- 

 sonia^iix. 153, excL syn. E, Meyer; Prain in Kew BuUdin, 1913, 

 391. a polifoUa, S brevifolia, Mull Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1049 ; 

 Pax in Engl Pjianzenr. Eujthorh Cluyt. 77, mainly. 



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Coast Eegion : Geoi^e Div. ; near George, Bounel Humansdorp Div. ; Twee- 

 fontein, Burchell, 4818! Zitzikamma, Fcklon & Zeyher, 61 mainly! Pappel 

 Kniisfontein Mountain, 1000 ft., Galpin, 4569 ! near Humansdorp, Rogers, 2907 

 partly ! Uitenhage Div. ; Van Stadens Berg, Dvege, 8237 ! Zeyher, 374 ! 3834 t 

 Ecldoii & Zeyher, 63 ! near the Zwartkops River, BvJdon, 601 ! Zeyher I Fort 

 Elizabeth Div. ; Redhouse, Mrs, Paterson, 661 1 near Port Elizabeth, Prager, 

 106 b ! Mrs, Holland ! 



A very distinct plant, considered by Miiller to be a vai-iety of C. pollfolia, with a 

 limited and compact distribution. The localities Grahamstown and Stellenl>osch 

 cited by Sonder are due to a misapprehension as to the provenance of his 

 specimens; the plants from the Van Rhynsdorp and Clanwilliam divisions 

 referred here by Pax do not belong. 



11. C. Virgata (Pax & K. Hoffin. in Engh Pflanzenr. Euphorb. 

 Cltiyt. 71) ; a small erect shrub, 1-1| ft. high; stems slender, 

 .several from a stout woody rootstock, virgate, simple or sparingly 

 branched near the top, glabrous; leaves sessile_, coriaceous, opaqne, 

 oblong-obovate to obovate-lanceolate, obtuse but mucronulate, base 

 rounded, margin slightly scabrous, usually flat, |-1 in. long, ^} "^' 



