VoS EUPHORBIACE^ (Prain). [Cluyfia. 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; Lydenburg, Wi^ms, 1318! near Barbertonj 



3000 ft., Galp'iH, 934! 



Eastern Region: Transkei ; Kentani. 1000 ft., Mias Pcgler^ 1250! Natal; 



Dumisaj 2500 ft., Rudatis^ 679 ! between Pietermaritzburg and Oreytownj Wilms, 

 2210 \ 



r 



13. C. africana (Poir. Encyc. Suppl. ii. 302, syn. Willd. excl. 

 \ClutiaY) ; an undershrub, up to 2 ft. high ; stems thick, woody, usually 

 considerably branched ; twigs ascending, glabrous ; leaves sessile, 

 thickly coriaceous, opaque, oblong-obovate, obtuse but mucronulate, 

 base cuneate or less often rounded, occasionally minutely cordate, 

 margin scabrous and slightly revolute, 1^-1 f in. long, ^-| in. wide, 

 quite glabrous on both surfaces, usually drying dark brown; inter- 



nodes 1 



both 



pedicelled ; pedicels glabrous, \ in. long, male slender, female in 

 fruit rigid and stoutish ; male sepals obovate, obtuse, with a 3-lobate 

 basal scale ; petals wide-obovate, cuneately unguiculate, 2-glandular 

 at the base ; rudimentary ovary turbinate, glabrous ; female sepals 

 elliptic-lanceolate, larger than the male, with a 3-lobate basal scale ; 

 petals oblong-obovate, eglandular ; ovary glabrous ; styles free, 2-fid ; 

 capsule subglobose, \ in. across, glabrous ; seeds black, shining. 

 Prain in Kew Bulletin^ 1913, 393, C alaternoidesy Linn, Sp. PI' 

 ed. i. 1042 partly^ and ed, ii. 1475 partly and as to syn, Comm. only t 

 Lam. Encyc. ii. o4i partly and as to syn, Comm, ordy ; Thunh. Prodr, 53, 

 and FL Cap, ed, ScJiult. 270^ mainly ; E, Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl* 

 Vocumente, 171, a, d; Krauss in Flora, 184h, 82. C daphioideSy 

 Willd. Hart. Berol 52, excl t. 52, and Sp, PL iv. ii. 880, excl syn. 

 Thinh, y not of Lam. C, alaternoides^ var. major, Krauss Ic, ; Mull 

 Arg, in DC. Prodr. xv, ii. 1047 ; Pax in Engl Pflanzenr. Enphorh- 

 Cluyt. 68, mainly. G. alaternoideSy a latifolia, Sond. in Linnsea, 



xxiii. 127, partly; Mull Arg. ?.c. C, florihtinda, Baill Etud, Gen, 



EnpJwrb, Atl 30, /. ilyi. Jigs. 1-5, fide Pax. C. heterophylla , Baill 



Adansonia, iii. 150, mainly, but excl syn, BemJi.; not of Thunh. 



C. alaternoides, y genuina, b. oblongata, Mull Arg, Ic, 1048. — Alater- 



noides africana telephii legitimi imperati folio, Comm. Horl Amstel 

 ii. 3, /. 2. 



Coast Region: Clanwilliam Div. ; Cedarberg Range, near the Honey Valley 

 and the Koudeberg, 2800-4000 ft., i)7%«, 8228 b ! Dieh, 906 ! Piquetberg Div. ; 

 near Piquetberg, Dreije, 8228 at Oliphants River, near Warm Baths, Stephens, 

 7223 ! Phillips, 7254 ! Paarl Div. ; Paarl Mountains and by the Berg River near 

 Paarl, Dreje I Cape Div. ; numerous locahtiea, Sparrmannl Thiuibergl Berjiitsl 



Lichtenstein \ Dregc, &l Barrhell'2(j\i[Ecklon\ f.chlon iL* Zeyherl 



Holland, Miind & Malre ! 



14. C. Alaternoides (Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 1042, excl. syn. Burm.^ 



and syn. Comm. [Clutia\) ; undershrub up to 2 ft. high ; stems rather 

 slender, woody, considerably branched ; twigs ascending, glabrous ; 

 leaves sessile, coriaceous, opaque, lanceolate or narrowly obovate- 

 lanceolate, obtuse but mucronulate, base gradually narrowed, margin 



