454 EtiPiiORBiACEiE (Plain). [Chiytia. 



ovary glabrous ; capsule glabrous, \ in. long, smooth ; seeds small, 

 black, shining. WiUd. Hort. BeroL i. 52, /. b2,exd. syn. Comm.,and 

 Sp. PL iv. ii. 880, excL sTjn. Gomm, and syn. Tlimih, ; Pcrs. Syn, 

 ii. 636, excl syn, Thimh. ; Ait. Eort, Kew. ed, 2, v, 422 ; Spreng. Syd, 

 iii. 49, exch syn, Tliunh. ; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 81 ; Sond, m 

 Lijinsea, xxiii. 126, incL var. incana ; Dietr, Syn. v. 455; BailL 

 Adansoma, iii. loO [dajmoides']; Mull, Arg. in BG. Prodr. xv, ii. 

 1050, incL var. (jiabrafa, hut excL var, TJiunhergii and syn. Poir.; 

 Pax in EmjL Pjlanzcnr. Euphorh. Cliiyf. 72, incL both vars., hut excl 

 syn. Poir ; 'Prain in Kew Bidhtin, 1913, 412. 0. tomcntosa, Thxmh. 

 ex ScJiulL in FJ, Cap. ed. Schidt. 271; not of Linn., nor of Tliunh. 

 Prodr. C. puhescensj Ecld. tfc Zeyh, in part^ ex Sond, 7.C.; not ofThunh., 

 nor of WiVd. C. piiJcJiella^ Sparrrn. ex Sond. he. ; not of Linn. 

 G. hirsuta, Pax in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien^ xv. 49; not of 

 E. Meyer, G. cinerea, Barm, ex Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 412. 



South Afbtca : cultivated specimens. 



Coast Region i Malmcsbury Div. ; between Groene Kloof and Saldaiiha Bay, 

 Dregc, 8235 ! Ysterfonteirx, Darling, Mai-loth, 4040 ! Cape Div. ; near Cape Town, 

 Burmann ! Thunherfj ! Sparrmann ! Sonnerat I Bergias ! Krchs ! Mtmd & Maire ! 

 Verreauxl Priori Mavlothy 4415! StellenboBch Div. ; Hottcntota Holland 

 Mountains, Ecklon ! Eiversdale Div. ; mouth of the Duivenhoeks River, Ecklon ! 

 near Eiversdale, Rust, 168! Schlechter, 1813! Tygerfontein, 800 ft., Galpin, 

 4573! Corente Hiver Farm, Muir in Herb. Galpin, 5333! Albertina, 3hdr\ 

 Mossel Bay Div. ; Eastern side of tlie Gouiitz River, BurcheU, G424 ! Mossel Bay, 

 MacOtvan [ George Div. ; near George, Bowie ! Schimper I Humansdorp Div. ; 

 Humansdorp, 300 ft., Galpin^ 4567 ! Uitenhage Div. ; various localities, Ecklon. 

 9D ! 605! Zenker \ EcUon d* Ziylier, 441 45! Mm. Patermii, 766! Priori Baur, 

 1012 ! Bolas, 1657 ! Krauss, 1712 ! 1713 ! Port Elizabeth Div. ; Port Elizabeth, 

 Dregefil ! Bathurst Div. ; Mouth of the Great Fish River, BurcheU, 3722 1 3748 ! 

 near Port Alfred, BarcMI, 3790 ! GaJjnn, 1067 ! 3039 ! Miss &'ole, 458 ! Potts, 200 ! 

 Kowie, Ptidka\ 946 ! Albany Div. ; without precise locality, Jlatton I Miss Bon'kcr I 

 Prior ! King Williainstown Div. ; near King Williamstown, Kcnmdy ! 31acOit'an, 

 1340 x>''^rtly ! Konigha Div. ; near Komgha, Flanagan, 281 pai-tly ! British 

 KalTraria ; Kaboussie, MacOwan, 1340 partly ! 



34. C. vaccinioides (Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 413) ; a shrub, 



much branched ; twigs prostrate, 1-2 ft. long, finely pubescent ; 

 leaves coriaceous, sessile or very nearly so, elliptic or oblong, usually 

 obtuse, base wide-cuneate or rounded, margin flat, not imbricate, 

 lowest 1 in. long, i in. wide, gradually diminishing upwards, glabrous 

 or with a few hairs along midrib above, and strongly ^\'arted, 

 especially when young, on both surfaces, opacjue, margin subhyaline ; 

 Howers dii^cious, yellowish-white with pink blotches, solitary in the 

 leaf-axils, only male seen ; male pedicels about as long as the calyx, 

 sparingly pubescent ; male sepals sparsely hairy, obovate, slightly 

 retuse, V in. long, with a deeply 3-lobed basal scale ; petals distinctly 

 clawed, obcordately notched, shorter than the calyx, glabrous, each 

 with 3 small basal scales at the very base ; rudimentary ovary very 

 short, glabrous. C. Thuuhcrgii, var. vaccinioides^ Pax & K. Hoffni^ 

 in Engl. PJlanzenr, Eitpliorh. Cluyt. 76. 



Coast Region: Riversdale Div.; near Riversdale, Rust, 619! 620! Mossel 

 Bay Div. ; between Little Brak River and Hartenbosch, Burchell, 6216 ! 



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