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Zeidesia,] EUPHORBiACEiE (Prain). . 463 



glabrous ; stipules lanceolate ; racemes |-| in. long ; male bracts 

 ovate, acute, y\^ in. long, hispid ; male calyx 3-partite, lobes ovate, 

 acute, sparingly hispid outside ; stamens usually 3, sometimes 4 , 

 capsule 2-coccous ; cocci hispidulous, 1 lin. long. Frain in Ami, Bot, 

 xxvii. 400. 



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Western Region: Great Namaqualand ; Gamokab, Schinz, 898! Karukab, 

 Scliinz, 899 1 Grout Fonteizi, Dinter, 700 ! 



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A very distinct specieSj in habit and consistence of leases and stems bearing to 

 the remaining membeiB of the genus exactly the relationship which mu.st of the 

 species of Adeitoeline bear to A. 'procumbens^ Benth. It diflers most strikingly 

 from the remaining two species in having pedicelled female ilovvers. 



2. L. capensis (Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 793, excl. syn, 

 Vrttca capcvsisj Linn. f. and Thunb.) ; a succulent herb ; stem green, 

 glabrous, suberect or diffuse, 4-12 in. long ; leaves long-petioled, very 

 thinly membranous, deltoid-ovate, subacute or obtuse, base truncate 

 or shortly wide-cuneate, margin shallow-crenaie, lobes 4 or more 

 a side, f-2 in. long, ^-l^- in, wide, puncticulate, very sparingly 

 pubescent above, glabrous or nearly so beneath ; petiole f-H in. 

 long, glabrous ; stipules lanceolate ; racemes 1-2 in. long ; male 

 bracts triangular-ovate, subacute, I in, long, hispid ; male caly: 



3-partite, lobes ovate, acute, sparingly hispid outside ; stamens 

 usually 6-7 ; capsule 2-coccous ; cocci hispidulous, over 1 lin. 

 across. Benfh. in Hoolc. Ic. PI xiii. 66, partli/ and excl i, 1284; 

 Pax in Engl, d Prantl, PJlanzenfam. iii. v, 50, Jig. 31 A, B. J-, son- 

 deriana, MiilL Arg, Lc, 699 {name only). L. procumhens, Prain in 

 Ann, BoL xxvii. 400. Mercurialis procumhens, Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 

 1036, M. androgyna, Stead, NomencL ed. i. 524. M. annua, Tliunh. 

 FL Cap. ed. Scliult. 3S7, partly {Outeniqua spec, only); not of Linn. 

 M. iricocca, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pjl. Docmnenle, 201 partly 

 {d, e, only). M. capensis, Spreng. ex EcM. d' Zeyli. in Linn^.a, xx. 

 213 [name only)] Sand, in Linnsea, xxiii. 112, partly, and excl. syn. 

 Linn.f.^ and Thnnh ; Baill. Adansonia, iii. 15S, partly, and excl. syn. 

 Linn, and Lehn. Croton Bicinocarpos, Linn. Sp. PL ed. ii. 1427; 

 Aull Hist. PL Guy. ii. 883; WilhL Sp. PL iv. 551; Geisel CroL 

 Monogr. 60 ; Sp>reng. Syst. iii. 877, as to descript. and syn. M. 

 androgyna, excL syn. Boerliaave and loc. Surinam. Urfica capensis, 

 EcJd/Un. It. n. 814; not of Linn, f Adenocline Mercttrialis, Baill. 



Etud. Gen. Ettphorh. 457, ^jar/Zy ; not of Turcz. 



South Africa : without locality, Herb. Swa/rtzl and cultivated specimens \ 

 Coast Regiox : Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, Ecklon, S14 ! Zeyher, ZUi ! 

 Lehmannl Massonl Wright, 42G ! Devils Mountain, 1200 ft., Eckhnl Harvey, 

 501 ! Bolm, 2941 ! Wilms, 3fi23 ! above Overige Kloof, 2S00 ft.* SchlecUer, 408 ! 

 above Groote Scliuur, Wolley-Pod. 607 ! George Div. ; Outeniqua Mountains, 

 Thunhergl Roode Muur, Drtye {M. tricocca d) ! near GcoT^e, Barchell, 5S47 I 

 Rogers ! ' Uniondale Div. ; Longkloof, Dummcr, 1376 ! Knysna Div. ; Yzer N'ek. 

 •Burchell, 5247 ! Karratera River, Drege (J/, tricocca e) ! Albany Div. ; witliout 



precise locality, Bowie, 18 I 



Kalahari Region ; Transvaal ; Houtbosli, G500 ft., ReJiinann, 5923 ! Sehlechtev^ 



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