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Cluytia.] EUPIIOKBIAGE^ (Prain). 44:> 



loug ; male sepals suborbicular, rather fleshy, with a 2-4-lobed basal 

 scale; petals obovate, gradually narrowed to the base, and there 

 with a very minute gland ; rudimentary ovary ovoid, glabrous. 



South Afhica : without locality, Prior ! 



Coast Kkgion : Queenstown Div. ; Andriesberg, near Bailey, 6400 ft,, Gnli^in, 

 2026 ! Cathoart Div. ; Boutebuk Flatd, Sim., 2543 ! , ■ - . 



19. C. alpina {Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 403) ; under^^hrub; 



stems several, pro,':>trute from a woody rootstock, 4-12 in. long, 



giving off several ascending or prostrate brauclies, 2-6 in. long, 



again branching ; twigs angled or slightly winged, spai'ingly and 



softly tawny hirsute ; leaves petioled, membranous, pellucid-punctate, 



ovate, obtuse, base rounded or truncate, margin revolute, }^-^ in. 

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^^*^^8) 5~B ^^' wide, adpressed hirsute on the midrib above, otherwise 

 glabrous on both surfaces ; nerves not visible ; petiole |— ^- in. long, 

 pubescent; flowers dioecious, green, male 2-nate in the leaf-axils ; 

 pedicels very short, surrounded at the base by small ovate hyaline 

 scales with margins ciliate towards the base ; male sepals ovate, 

 obtuse, within eglandular ; petals spathulate, eglandular, but each 

 with a minute gland attached within its insertion ; rudimentary ovary 

 cylindric, glabrous. 



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Central Region- : Baiklv East Div. ; Witteberg Piange, on Ben Macdluii, 

 9300 ft., Galpin, 6827 ! 



20. C. glabrescens (Knauf in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 340) ; a shrub 



^^ip to 10 ft. high; twugs glabrous, not warted ; leaves distinctly 

 petioled, thinly papery, pellucid-punctate but not warted, elliptic- 

 lanceolate, acute, base cuneate, margin flat, H-2i in. long, f-1 in. 

 wide, dark green, glabrous on both surfaces, dull ; petiole |-;\ in. 

 long; flowers diwcious, white, male in few-flowered fascicles, female 

 1-3; pedicels up to | in. long, female elongated in fruit and at 

 length ^2 i^* l^iig .- niale sepals obovate, obtuse, punctate but not 

 ^'arted, glabrous, with a 3-lobate basal scale; petals obovate- 

 spathulate, with a simple basal scale; rudimentary ovary hardly 

 dilated at the tip, glabrous ; female sepals rather larger and firmer 

 than the male, with a 2-lobate basal scale ; petals without a basal 

 scale ; ovary glabrous ; styles free, shortly 2-fid ; capsule ^^ in. 

 across, subglobose, glabrous, not w^arted; seeds black, shining. Prain 

 in Keic Bitlleiin, 1913, 403. (7. ahyssinka. Pax in Engl, PJlanzenr. 

 Eiiplorh. CluyL bQ, partly] Hutchinson in Dyer, Fl Trap. W. i, 807, 

 ptrtly] not of Jauh. <{' Si^rh. 



E\sTERNiREGrox: Zululand; JSkaudlila, 4000-6000 ft., Wylie in Herh. Wood, 

 8874 ! 



Also in Eastern Tropical Africa. 



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21. C, Galpini (Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb. Cluyt. 54, 

 under C. ^ulcliella) ; shrub, 3-5 ft. high ; twigs smooth, when young 

 puberulous ; leaves distinctly petioled, rather firnily membranous, 



