448 EUPHORBiACE.^ (Prain). [Cluytia, 



Mull. Arg. in DC, Prodr, xv, ii. 1052, inch mr. glahrata ; 0. Kunfze, 

 Rev. Gen, FL ui. ii. 284; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr, Euphorh, Cluyt. 

 M, ind. var. glahrata; Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 407. Cluytia 

 n. 8225 and n. 8226 h, not a, E. Meyer^ in Brege, Zwei Pfl. Docu- 

 mented 174. 



Coast Region : Alexandria Div. ; Oliphants Hoek Forest, Ecklon d: Zeyher I 

 Albany Div. ; Grabamstowo, 2000 ft., MacOivan ! Queenstown Div. ; Klippoat 

 River, near Shiloh, Bvege, 8225 ! Klaas Smits River, Baar^ 57 ! Zwartkei River, 

 Cooper, 262 ! 263 ! Galpin, 2684 ! 



Ckntk^l Region : Aliwal North Div. ; by the Orange River near Aliwal North, 

 4300 ft., Brhje, 8226 b! 



Kalahari Region : Orange River Colony ; Caledon River, Burke ! Zeyher, 

 1512! Wahlh€rg\ Harrismith, Sankey, 2341 Bethlehem, Richardson \ Flanagan, 

 2110! Beaters Vlei near Witzieri Hoek, Bolus, 8247! Ladybrand, Rogers, 820 1 

 Basutoland ; Leribe, ly'ieterlin, 321 ! Transvaal: Sanderson \ Rehmann, 3946! 

 Lydenburg Dist. ; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1316 mainly 1 1317 ! 1318 ! Waterfall 

 River, WilniSy 1317 a 1 Standarton, Rehmann, 6790 I at Maquabie near Amcrsfoot, 

 Burtt-Davy, 4111! Crocodile Valley, Bartt-Davy, 76391 Carolina, Raduiiacher , 

 Till ! Johannesburg ; near Roodepoort, Rand, 985 ! 



Eastern Region: Tembaland ; Gala, 4000 ft., Miss Pegler, 1462! Griqualand 

 East ; Banks of the Umzimkulu River near Handcocks Drift, 2500 ft., Tyson, 

 2790 ! and in MacOwan d: Bolus, Ilerh. Norm.Austr. -Afr. 766 ! Tsitsa River, 3400 ft., 

 Kroolc, 881 ! Schlechter, 6371 ! 6379! Natal; Table Mountain, Kraussl Howick, 

 Junod, 301! Van Reenens Pass, 5500-6000 ft., Kuntzel Miss Franks in Herb. 

 Wood, 12198 ! near Currys Post, 4000 ft.. Wood, 3569! Dumisa, Rudatis, 677 ! 

 banks of the Tugela River, 3000-4000 ft.. Wood] near Acton Homes, 3000- 

 4000 ft., Wood, 3584 ! near Mooi River, 4000-5000 ft., Wood, 6183 ! near New- 

 castle, 3000-4000 ft.. Wood, 8615! Klip River, 6^mwd, 788 ! and without precise 

 locality, Sanderson, 71! Fi-asrj^l Gerrard, 1159! Zululand ; Entumeni, 2000 ft., 

 Wood, 3730 1 



26. C. platyphylla (Pax k K. Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenr. 

 Euphorb. Cluyt. 74) ; a small shrub ; stems 1 ft, high or less, 

 fastigiately branched ; twigs angular^ tawny pubescent at first as 

 are the young leaves, at length almost glabrous; leaves shortly 

 petioled, close-set, ovate or suborbicular, obtuse, base rounded or 

 subcordatCj margin slightly recurved, |-2 in. long, |— 1 in. wide, 

 firmly papery to subcoriaceous, when young faintly pellucid-punctate, 

 not Avarted ; midrib and main-nerves beneath very distinct ; flowers 

 dioecious, greenish- white, male 1-3, female not seen ; pedicels up to 

 \ in. long, capillary, pubescent ; male sepals rounded, pubescent 

 outside, obtuse, with a 4-5-lobate basal scale ; petals rhomboid- 

 orbicular, shortly clawed, glabrous, eglandular, but each with 6-8 

 free glands attached to fundus of calyx within their point of origin ; 

 rudimentary ovary glabrous, cylindric, expanded at the tip. Pmin 

 in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 407. 



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Eastern Region: Natal; Dumisa, Fairfield, 2500 ft., Rudatis, 81 ! 



^ 27. C. dregeana (Scheele in Linntea, xxv. 583) ; a shrub, 3-8 ft. 



high, much branched ; branches spreading ; twigs distinctly angular, 

 at first finely pubescent, at length glabrous or nearly so; leaves 

 sessile or nearly so, from ovate to lanceolate, shortly acuminate or 



