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Cluytia.] euphoebiace^ (Prain). 449 



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acute, less often obtuse, base i'OuiicTed or wide-cuneate, margin 

 slightly recurved, f-| (rarely 1-1 J) in. long, |-| (rarely |) in. wide, 

 subeoriaceous or coriaceous ; when young faintly pellucid-punctate 

 and with pellucid veins, when mature opaque or only with the veins 

 faintly pellucid, not warted ; midrib rather distinct, nerves obscure ; 

 at first sparingly pubescent but soon nearly to quite glabrous ; 

 flowers dia^cious, greenish-white, male 1-3, female usually solitary; 

 pedicels up to \ in. long, at first pubescent, male capillary, female 

 ^^S^d? stouter _, angled ; male sepals ovate -oblong, obtuse, punctate 

 but not w arted, with a 3-5-lobate basal scale ; petals cuneate- 

 obovate, shortly clawed, base 2-3-gIandular ; rudimentary ovary 

 cylindric, glabrous ; female sepals like the male but rather larger; 

 petals as in the male but with base 1-glandular ; ovary glabrous ; 

 styles distinctly connate at the base, 2-fid above ; capsule \ in. Avide, 

 subglobose, distinctly warted-punctate. BailL Adansonia^ iii. 153; 

 Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 408. G, lieteropJiijUa.Sond. in Linnsea, 

 xxiii. 128, mainly^ hut e.rcL var. Tiirsuta and syn. Bernh. ; not oj 

 Thnnh. C, mnderiana, Miill. Arg. in DC Prodr. xv. ii. 1051, incl, 

 hotlt vars ', Pax in EngL Pflanzenr. Eui>liorh, Cluyt. 72, incl, all three 

 t^ars.y but exd. Krooh, 915, and excl. syn, C. heterophjUa, Pax in Ann, 

 Naturhist, Hofnius. Wien, xv. 49 ; not of Thuib,^ nor of Sand, 



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Coast Region : George Div. ; plains of George, Borne \ Uitenhage Div. ; near 

 TTitenhage, Kvels, 298! Dregc, 8229! Ylands River, EchJon & Zeyherl Van 

 Stadenaberg Kiver, Ecklon & Zcyher, 34 partly! Addo, Eckion, 604! EcUou iSt 

 Zet/ker, 46 ! Ze)jhe)\ 3829 ! Zuur Eerg, Prager, 104 ! Alexandria Div. ; Salem, 

 I^eacon, 7377 1 Wehsta; 7531 ! Albany Div. ; Grabamstown, Mogers, 1547 ! 

 ^■vvartehoogde, Ecklon d- Zcyher ! Blauwkrantz near Grahamstown, Galpin, 257 

 ymxlnly I Britisli Kaffraria ; Bola^se, 1500 ft., Sim, 1456 1 



Eastern Kkgiox : Transkei ; Kentani, 1000 ft., Miss Pegler \ Natal; Marien 

 Hill, at the Trappist Colony, Lamlauer I and without precise locality, Wahllerg ! 



28. C, hirsuta (E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documeute, 174; 

 et ex Sond. in Linnrt^a, xxiii. 129); a shrul), 2-4 ft. high, often 

 considerably branched; branches ascending ; twigs distinctly angular, 

 sparingly to rather densely persistently pubescent; leaves distinctly 

 petioled, from ovate to lanceolate, acute or acuminate, hardly ever 

 o^^tuse, base narrow- to wide-cuneate, margin slightly recurved, 

 f-l in. long, \-^ in. wide, membranous or papery, very distinctly 

 and persistently pellucid-punctate and with pellucid veins, not 

 darted; midrib and nerves rather distinct especially beneath, 

 sparingly to densely persistently pubescent on both surfaces, but 

 especially beneath ; petiole \ in. long ; flowers dioecious, yellowish- 

 ^bite ; male 1-3, female usually solitary ; pedicels in both sexes 

 short, I in. long, male capillary, female rigid, stouter and angled, all 

 persistently pubescent; male sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, pubescent, 

 punctate but not warted, with a 3-5-lobate basal scale; petals 

 ^uneate-obovate, glabrous, eglandular, but each with 4-5 free glands 



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