Ctuytia^ EtrriioiiBlACE^ (train). 455 



35. C. Thunbergii (Sond. in. Liim^ea, xxiii, 130); shrub, erect, 

 1-5 ft. high, much branched ■ twigs virgate, cylindric, puberulous 

 or shortly adpressed white-pubescent j leaves shortly petioled, sub- 

 coriaceous, opaque, usually obovate, obtuse, narrowed from near the 

 apex to the base, occasionally suborbicular, margin flat, ^-] in. 

 ^7^o5 \-\ in. Avide, usually densely shortly white-pubescent, occa- 

 sionally only puberulous, on both the surfaces ; petiole xV~tV i^^- 

 long; flow^ers direcious, white, male solitary or in pairs, female 

 solitary, in both sexes subsessile; male sepals widely obovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, softly shortly velvety externally, with a 3-4 lobate basal 

 scale ; petals rounded-spathulate, glabrous, eglandular, but each 

 with about 4 glands attached within their point of insertion; rudi- 

 mentary ovary very short, cylindric, truncate but not dilated at 

 the tip, glabrous ; female sepals as in the male ; petals as in the 

 inale; ovary glabrous; capsule glabrous, -J in. long, with warted- 

 punctatc valves ; seeds small, black, shining. BalU. Adansonia, iii. 

 152; Pax in Engl. PJlanzenr, Exipliorh. Chiyf. 76, var. canescens 

 only ; Prain in Keto Bulletin, 1913, 414. C. tomentosa, TJiunb. Prodr, 

 53; E, Meyer in Drrgc, Zwei Pfi. Documented 174; not of L/nn, 

 C. 2>u1^escens, Wilhl Sp. PZ. iv. ii. 881; Bers, Syn, ii, 63G ; Pair. 

 Encyc. SijppL ii. 303 ; Sprcng, Sysf. iii. 49 ; Dietr. Syn, v. 455 ; not 

 of Tliunh. C, drqAnoides^ var, Thnnhergiij MiilL Arg, in DC, Prvdr. 

 XV. ii, 1050. (7. karreensiSj SehlecJiter ex Pax, Lc. 



South Afrxca : without locality, Thuiiberg ! Nelson ! 



Cextkal Region : Beaufort West Div. ; Nieuweveld Mountuins, near Beaufort 

 West, 3000-4000 ft., Drege, 8236 a! SchlecUer, 2112! Bokpoort, 3500-ioOO ft., 

 ^^'ege, 8236 b ! between Piliiiiosteikop and Ganzefontein, Drege 1 Fraserburg Div. ; 

 near Fraserburg, 4200 ft., Bolus, 10403 ! 



'^ViiJSTEEis- Region : Great NamaquaJand ; Great Kanisberg R^mge, Ludliib 



Summit, Pearson, 7800 I Little Kamaqualand ; between Pedroskloof and Lolie 



Fontein, Drege, 3031! near Brackdam, 1800-2000 ft., ScltlccMer, 11110! North- 



^st of Stinkfontein, Pillans, 5687 ! near top of Rattelpoort Mountain, Pearson, 

 2965! 



36. C. crassifolia (Pax in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 736) ; a shrub, 

 erect, 4-5 ft. high, much branched ; twigs virgate, quite glabrous ; 

 leaves shortly petioled, firmly coriaceous, opaque, obovate,^ obtuse, 

 narrowed from near the apex to the base, margin flat, J iu. long, 



.1-1 ;„ ...:,i. _„_•.. „i , i.„i.i, ^..f-ices; petiole ^V ^'i- '''^a ; 



threes ; pedicels slender, 

 oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 



e~ 



flovvors dioecious, white, male in pairs or 



half a.s long as calyx; male sepals rounded-u.^i>^i^^, v--^.-^«, j, , 



with a .3-5-Iobate b.-isal scale ; petals rounded-oblong, obtuse, spathu- 

 late, .glandular, but each with about 4 glands attached withm 

 their point of insertion ; rudimentary ovary very short, discoid and 

 tlJlated at the tip, glabrous. Fax in En^jl. PJlanzenr. Eu_p1wrh. 

 Chujt. 71; Vrain in Kcw Bulletin, 1913, 415. 



Wkstern Region : Great Nama<inaland ; Gaiisberg, 7000^8000 ft., Fleck, 465 a ! 



37. C. polygonoides (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. ii. 1475 [CluHa]) ; an 



undershrub, 1-2 ft. high ; stems several from a woody base, spar 

 "igly branched ; twigs coseending, glabrous ; leaves sessile, coriaceous, 



