Chiytia.'] EUPHOHBIACE^ (Prain). 451 



^yide, pale to medium greerij when young sparingly hirsute on both 

 sides, soon glabrous or nearly so, distinctly reticulately veined 



cent; flowers dioecious, greenish- white, male 2^4, female solitary or 

 sometimes in pairs ; pedicels up to .} in. long in flower, pubescent, 

 male capillary, female rigid, but very slender and often in fruit 

 nearly i in. long ; male sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, punctate but 

 not warted, with a 3-5-lobate basal scale ; petals rounded-ovate, 

 narrowed to a rather wide claw, eglandular, but each with about 

 five free glands attached within their point of origin ; rudimentary 

 ovary subcylindric, glabrous ; female sepals oblong, punctate, with 

 a l^dobed basal scale ; petals as in the male, eglandular or with a 

 solitary basal gland ; ovary hirsute; styles distinctly connate at the 

 base, 2-bifid above ; capsule y in, wide, less than half as long as the 

 slender pedicel, sparingly setose to quite glabrous, not at all warted. 

 O.jmlchella, Wood in Wood & Evans. Natal PL i. 68, t 84: not of 



Linn. ff. hph^ri^nr^lulht T>n^' ^"m flnnl 



Wood ; not of 



Pfl 



^ Eastern Region : Griqualand East ; near EoLstad, 4300 ft., Tyson, 1114! and 

 in MacOivan Jb Bolus, Herb. Austr.-Afr. 1234! Xatal ; near Durban, Sanderson, 

 GGl ! Gerrard, 278 t Wood, 38 ! 4944 ! Inanda, Wood, 120 ! Itchmann, 8407 ! 

 CJaremont, ScMechter, 2942 ! Marburg, 300 ft., Rogers^ 536 partly! 



30. C. monticola (S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xl. 197) ; an 

 undershrub ; stems simple, several from a woody rootstock, erect, 

 6 in. to 2 ft, high, somewhat angular, all parts at all stages quite 

 glabrous ; leaves sessile, when young membranous, soon firmly 



papery, pelliicid-punctate and warted, ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceo- 

 late, usually obtuse below and acute above, but at times all obtuse 

 or all acute, base wide- to narrow-cuneate, margin slightly recurved, 

 2-1 2 in. long, 1—1 in. wide, pale green, quite glabrous, reticulations 

 beneath visible but not raised ; flowers dioecious, greenish-white to 

 yellow ; male 3-9, female solitaiy ; pedicels of male capillary, up to 

 h in. long, glabrous, of female rigid, stout, angled, e^'en in fruit 

 under i- in. long ; male sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, warted-punctate, 

 with a 3-5-lobate basal scale ; petals rhomboid, narrowed to a rather 

 "vvide claw, with about 5 glands adnate to the base of the claAV ; 

 rudimentary ovary cyJindric, glabrous; female sepals oblong, warted- 

 punctate, with a 2dobed basal scale; petals as in male but eglan- 

 dular or with a single basal gland ; ovary glabrous ; styles nearly 



i 



glabrous, strong y warted punctate ; seeds shining, black. 



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Al 



PJl 



^'nd as to syn. Scliinz only. M> 



Kalahari Eegion : Orange Free State ; Harrismith, Sanl-ei/, 23S ! Bestei^ Vlei, 

 near Witzies Hnek, 5600 H.^Bohis, 8250 partly ! Transvaal ; Zoutpansberg Range, 

 ^Vadd] Eerstellintc, Mhs Zeendertz, 885! Waterberg Dist. ; Farm Portugal, 



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