Gluytia.'] EU?liOliBlACE/E (Praia). 447 



black, shining. Miill. Arcj. in DO. Prodr. xv. ii. 1050, iiicl mr, 

 P ; Pax in Engl Pfianzenr. EuplorK Cluyt 57, inch var. J3 ' Prah 

 %n Keio Bulletin, 1913, 406. C. Iiirmta, Echl dt Zeyh ex Sond, 

 U ; not of E, Meyer. (7. ;puhescens, Echl & Zeyh, partly, ex Sand. 

 U ; not of Thnnh., nor of Wilhl C. phyUanthifoUa, Baill. Ada^i^onia, 

 ui. 153. C. rettisa, Thnnh. ex Prain in Kew Bulletin^ 1913, 40G ■ 

 not of Linn, ' 



South Apkic'a : without locality, Thunbergl Krehsl 



Coast Ekuion : Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Hollaad Mouutaiiis, i:cLIm I 

 Swellendam Div, ; near Swellendam, Moxbvrgli \ Niven ! Mmid&Main, lOS ! 311 ! 

 Lcldon (^ Zeyher, 43 I Geor^^e Div. ; near George, BurcheU, 6042 ! Bowk \ Prior ! 

 Zwajt River, Pcnther, 876! Oakford, Mehmann, t>b9 \ Montagu Pa^s, 1200 ft, 

 loung in flerh, Bolus, 5533! Eehmann, 168! Uniondale Div.; Long Kloof^ 

 Mhlmi & Zci/hcrl Humansdori) Div. ; Humansdorp, Rogers, 2922 ! 2965 ! Uiten- 

 hage Div. ; Van Stadens Berg, Zeyherl Ecklan d' Zeyherl Zwartkoj-is River, 

 Zeyher, 3828! Port Elizabeth Div. ; Port Elizabeth, LaldUy, 470!" Albiuy Div. ; 

 near GraLainstown, 2000 ft, Bolton ! MacOican, I ! Gnlpin, 31 ! Flutton ! Cooper^ 

 19! Z>re//f', 822i3 c! Ecklon, 884 ! Atherstone, 478! WUlimuonl ScMnhmd, 585 ! 

 Mt88€8 Dab) (t ^olc, 2f52! Bluekrantz, BuTcheU, 3640! Assegai Bush, Bauv\ 

 Bedford Div, ; Bedford, Weale, 14 ! Stuckeustrom Div. ; Kat Berg, 3000-4000 ft., 

 -0^%e, 8226a! Queenstown Div.; near Qneenstown, Cooper, 3141 bis! Stutter- 

 heim Div.; Fort Cunynghame, Sim, 2117 \ King Willianistown Div.; Perie 

 Mountains, 2500 ft., Gidpln, 32GG ! Godfrey, 107 ! King Williamstown, Scott 

 Elliot, 11003! East London Div.; East London, Rattray, 60! Komgha Div.; 

 Prospect Farm, Fkinagnn, 281 partly ! British Katfraria ; without precise locality, 

 Cooper, 76 ! 77! 



Kalahari Reuion : Transvaal ; Houtbosch, 5000 ft., RcIiTmnn, 5909 ! Boh/s, 

 10980 ! Mac Mac, Mndd ! Bnrghers Pass, 5000 ft., Bnrtt-Dary, 1561 ! Lvdenburg, 

 Wilrm, 1315! Spitzkop, Wilms, 1130 ! 



Eastern Region: Transkei: Kentani, 1000 ft., Miss Peglev, 8! Natal; 



Fnedenau, Rudutis, 1248! Zululand ; Injronia, G err a rd, 1159 I Qudeni, TftW, 

 7849 ! . » o ^ ; , -^ 



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25, C. natalensis (Bernh. ex Krauss in Flora, 1845, 81) ; a shrub 

 -4: ft. high, mucli branched ; twigs fastigiate, rather slender, 

 sparingly tawny-pubescent, soon glabrous ; leaves shortly to dis- 

 tinctly petiuled, firmly papery, pellucid-punctate, but not warted, 



^^og. I 



cuneate, xua-t^uj. uai^, ^ 

 pubescent 



soon glabrescent "and at times quite glabrous^ pale green; petiole 

 i-4 in. long ; flowers ilicecious, yellowish, male in fascicles of 2-6, 

 female solitary or in pairs ; pedicels longer than the calyx, pilase, 

 loale capillary, female firm, in fruit ^-] in. long; male sepals 

 rounded-ovate, pubescent outside, with a 3-5-lobed basal scale; 

 petals about as long as sepals, wide rounded-obovate, eglandular 

 ^ut with 30-50 glands in the fundus of the calyx ; rudimentary 

 ovary slender, narrow-cylindric, glabrous ; female sepals ovate, 

 subacute, pul^scent outside, rather larger than the male sepals, 

 "^ith a usually 2-lobed (less often 1- or 3-lobed) basal scale; 

 petals shorter than the calyx, obovate-oblong, without a basal scale ; 

 ovary glabrous ; styles free, shortly 2-fid ; capsule | in. across, 

 parted-punctate ; seeds black, shining. Sand, in Linn3ea,xxil 127, 

 'V?. var, gJabrata; Baill Adansonia, iii. 150, incl var. glahrnfn ; 



