444 ELTriiouBrACE^ (Prain), [Clmjtia. 



pellucid-puuctate but not wavted, ovate, acute, 1 in. long, -i-§ in. 

 wide, when young puberulous beneath, soon glabrous, pale green ; 

 petiole \—\ in. long ; flowers dicecious, white, male in few-flowered 

 fascicles, female usually solitary, sometimes in threes ; pedicels 

 short, female elongated in fruit, at length up to ^-^ in. long ; male 

 sepals oblong-ovate, not warted, with a 3-lobate basal scale ; 

 petals deltoid-ovate, narrowed to a rather wide claw, with a 

 Himple basal scale ; rudimentary ovary rather dilated at the tip, 

 glabrous ; female sepals rather firmer than the male with a 3-lobate 

 basal scale ; petals as in male with a smaller or obsolete basal 

 scale ; ovary glabrous ; styles free, shortly 2-tid ; capsule \ in. across, 

 subglobose, warted-punctate ; seeds black, shining. Fax in BuU. 

 Rerb. Boiss. vi, 736, as to name only, hut excl. descr, of ^ fl* andexcL 

 Galpin 961; Prain in Keic Bulletin, 1913, 403, (7. ]micliella, 

 y ovalis, Mull. Arg, in DC. Prodr. xv, ii, 1046, C. pulcTiella^ forma 

 getmina {in small part) and forma ovalis, Pax in Engl, Pfanzenr, 

 Etipliorh. Cluyt, 54, 55. 



Kalahari Regiox : Transvaal ; Pretoria and neighbourhood, Rehmann^ 4*231 ! 

 4287 ! Miss Leendertz, 532 ! Bolus, 10839 ! }Yilms, 1320 partly ! Kirh, 50 ! Biirtt- 

 Davy, 7477! Wonderboom Poort, Behmann, 4549! Heidelberg, Miss Leendertz^ 

 10311 Boschveld, Jtekmann^ 4871 1 Elaudsfuatein, near Johannesbiirgj 5500 ft., 

 Giljillan in Ilerb. Galpin, 1426! Rustenberg, 4500 ft., Miss Nation, 52! 202! 

 Barberton, 3000 ft., Thorncroft, 1948! and without precise locality, Wahlberg I 



22. C. pulchella (Linn. Sp. PL eel. i. 1042 [Clutia]) ; a shrub up 

 to 8 ft. high J twigs warted, when young slightly adpressed-hairy ; 

 leaves distinctly petioled, membranous, warted and punctate, ovate 

 or ovate-ohlongj rarely suborhicular, subacute or obtuse, base 

 cuneate, margin flat, U-2|- in. long, J-li in. wide, glabrous ; petiole 

 ^(-1 in. long; flowers cfioecious, white" male in few-flowered fascicles 

 from perulate axillary swellings, female usually paired ; pedicels up 

 to I in. long, female elongated in fruit and at length J in. long 

 or longer ; male sepals oblong-ovate, warted-punctate, with a 3-lobate 

 basal scale ; petals deltoid-ovate, narrowed to a wide claw, each 

 with a simple basal scale ; rudimentary ovary somewhat widened 

 upwards, glabrous ; female sepals rather firmer than male, with a 

 2-34obate basal scale ; petals as in male, with a small or obsolete 

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

 across, subglobose, warted-punctate ; seeds black, shining. Linn. Sp. 

 PI ed. ii. 1475 ; Bnrm, f Prodr. Cap. 27 bis [31] ; Lam. Encyd. ii. 

 54 ; Willd, Sp. PL iv. ii. 881 ; Pers. Syn. ii. 636 ; Thunl. Prodr. 53, 

 and Fl. Cap. ed. Sckult. 271 ; Spremj. Syst. iii. 49 ; A. Juss. Euph. 

 Gen. Tent. t. Q,Jig. 21; Ait Eort. Kew. ed. 1, iii. 420, and ed. 2, v. 

 423 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1945 ; E. Meyer in Brege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 

 174, a only ; Krauts in Flora, 1845, 81 ; Sond. in Linnsea, xxiii. 129 ; 

 Dietr, Synops. v. 455; Baill Eiud. Gen. Enphorh. t 16, fig. 6-19: 

 —I in Adansonia, iii. 153 ; 0. Kuntze, Bev. Gen. PL iii. ii. 284 ■ 



Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 404. C. cotinifolia, Salisb. Prodr. 390. 

 C pulchella, a gemiina, Mull Arg. in BC Prodr. xv. ii. 1045. 



