Clitytia^ 



EUPJIOKBIACE.E (Praiii).'- 



453 



wliite, 



in. long 

 male in 



i 



belo^v, almost obsolete above ; flowers dia*cious, 

 -4-flowered fascicles, female solitary ; pedicels up 



iin. 



across, 



sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, warted-punctate, with a 3-lobate basal 

 scale ; petals rbomboid-ovate, narrowed to a rather wide claw, rather 

 shorter than the sepals, eglandular, but each witli about five free 

 glands^ attached w^ithin their point of origin ; rudimentary ovary 

 subcylitidric, glabrous ; female sepals oblong, subacute, warted- 

 punctate, with a 3-lobate basal scale ; petals as in male, eglandular ; 

 ovary glabrous ; styles free, shortly 2-fid ; capsule 

 subglobose, warted-punctate ; seeds black, shining. Willd. Sp. PL 

 IV. ii. 881 ; Pers, Syn. ii. 636; Poh\ Enajc. Supp^, ii. 303 ; T/mnb. 

 ^l^pap, ed. Schult. 271; Sprcng, Sy^L iii. 49 ; Sond. in Linnwa^ 

 xxui. 128j in small part and as to Zryhrr^s Borlchausen plant onhjy 

 esccL var. liirsuta and syn. Bernli, ; Bietr. Syn, v. 455; BailL 

 Mansonia, iii. 150, -m part only.eoccL syn. BeruL ; MiilL Arg. in DC. 

 Prodr, XV. ii. 104G ; Bax in Emjl PJlanzenr. Euphorh. Cluyt, (^G, as 

 to syn, ThnnK, WilhL, Midi Ary. and Scheele, hut excl plant 

 described ; Brain in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 411. 0. similis, MiiJI. Arg. 

 L^' ; 0. Knntze, Bev. Gen. BL iii. ii. 284 ; Ban- I.e. C. dnmosa, [Harv. 

 Mss. in sclted,^ Coopjcr ex Bax l.c.j mainly, hut excl. BacJanann, 750. 

 PhyUautJiiis vaccinioideS; Schcele in Linnmay xxv. 585. 



Coast Region : Uiteuhage Div. ; nearUitenlmgeingrassy places, very common, 

 Thanherrj \ Mvnd ! Boivin ! Breye, 8221 ! Prio7'l Fraser ! Schkchtcr, 2567 i 

 Corkhausen, Zcf/her ! Van Stadeas Berg, Eticlon iD Ze^/Jier, 34 mainly ! Bolus, 

 1665 ! Mrs, Patcrson, 743 ! Bathnrst Div. ; Trapps Valley, Miss Daly, S57 ! 

 Albany Div. ; Grahamstovvn, Bowie I Willkti/isonl Afiss Boirkev [ Atlterstone, 92! 

 Bolton ! P^iorj Miss Daly, 118 1 Stone's Hill, ^S't'/^o/i/a/irf, 70 f Fish River Heights, 



259 ! 455 ! Queeastown, 



, -. J --, ^„„^ . ^.....^...„ , - .,„-3 ^^ jel East London, Zczf/^r ! 



^ttray, 688 ! Wood, 3354 ! Komglia Div. ; near Komglia, Flmiarjan, 815 ! 



Eastkun Kkuion: Tembuland ; Bazeia, Baar, 146! rondulaad ; without 

 precise locality, Bachmann, 846! 



iiutton ! Fort Beaufort Div. ; Elands Berg, Cooper, 258 \ 

 4000 ft., Galpin, 1655 ! Cathcart Div. ; Cathcart, Kinitz. 



33. C. daphnoides (Lam. Encyc. ii. 54 [CAatia']) ; a sliruL, erect, 

 4-5 ft. highj much branched ] twigs spreading, sharply angular, 

 from shortly adpressed white-pubescent to nearly or quite glabrous ; 

 leaves distinctly petioled, firmly membranous, opaque, lanceolate- 

 ol>long, obtuse, narrowed from junction of upper and middle third 

 to tlie petiole, margin flat, 1-U in. long, ~J-^ in. wide, when young 

 densely to sparsely white-pubescent on both surfaces, at length 

 glabrescent; petiole ^-|- in, long, puherulousj flowers dioecious, 

 yellowish, male usually 2-5, female usually solitary ; pedicels \-\ 

 la. long, puberulous, male slender, female at length rigid ; male 

 sepals obovate-oblongj 



5-7-lobate basal scale ; petals rounded-spathulate, glabrous, eglan- 

 dular, but each with 3-4 glands attached within their point of 

 insertion; rudimentary ovary very short, cylindric, truncate and 

 very slightly dilated at the tip, glabrous ; female sepals as in the 

 ^ale, but with a 1-4-lobate basal scaJe ; petals as in the male; 



obtuse, white-pubescent externally, with a 



