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468 EUPiiOiiBiACE.E (Prain). [Acahjpha. 



2. A. glabrata (Thunb. Prodr. 117); a shrub or small tree^ 

 3-20 ft. high, miiclx branched; branches flexible, bart lenticelled ; 

 buds perulate ; leaves firmly membranous, distinctly pctioled, ovate, 

 acute or acuminate, base wide-cuneate or subtruncate, margin crenate 

 or serrate except at the entire base, those produced in dry areas or 

 seasons |-1 in. long, ^-| in. ^vide, those produced during rains 

 2-3 in. long, 1|-2| in. wide, glabrous throughout or sparingly 

 villous on the nerves beneath especially towards the base, but | 



at length glabrous ; petiole ^-If in. long, channelled above and 

 there puberulous or pubescent ; sepals subulate, spreading, glabrous, 

 persistent, 1 lin. long ; inflorescence normally 2-sexual; spikes narrow^ 

 sessile, ^-l^ in. long, with rather close-set clusters of male flowers 

 throughout and with a solitary basal female flower, often the lower 

 spikes with only male flowers and usually the uppermost inflorescences 

 reduced to solitary female flowers ; male bracts minute, lanceolate, 

 glabrous, 3-8-flowered; male buds glabrous, shortly pedicelled ; female 

 bracts spathaceous, ovate, plicate, 5-7-toothed, pubescent outside, at 

 first 1^ lin., ultimately up to 5 lin. wide; female calyx minute, 

 3-lobed ; lobes ovate ; ovary slightly 3-lobed, densely setose ; styles 

 3, very shortly united at the base, free above, at first terete, simple^ 

 in their upper half much laciniate ; seeds globose. Tluuib. Fl. Cap. 

 ed. Schult, 545 ; Spreng. Syst, iii. 882 ; E. Meyer in Drege, Ziret Ffl^ 

 Documente, 161 ; EcTcl, dt Zeyl, in Linnwa^ xx, 213 ; Sim in For. FL 

 Cape Col 318, t 14:2, ficf. 2; Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 12. 

 j4. (jlahrafa, var, gemiina, MiilL Arg. in Linnsea, xxxiv, 33, and in 

 DC. Prodr. XV. ii. 857. A. heiidinay E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl- 

 Documente, IQl, mainly ; EcM. & ZeyJi. in Linnsea, xx. 213 ; Sond, in 

 Linnsea, xxiii. 116; BailL Adansonia, iii. 157; not of Betz. 

 A. hetulina, var, laiifolia, Sond, Ix. 117. A, glnhrata, var. latifolia, 

 MiilL Arg. ILcc. Picinocarpus glahratus, 0. Kuntze^ Bev. Gen. Pi- 

 ii. 618. B. glalratiis, a genuinus and B latifolius, 0. Kuntze, Ix, 



iii. ii. 291. 



Var. j3, pilosior'(Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 15) ; leaves more or less denselj; 

 persistently pubescent or relvety beneath. A. velatina, E. Meyer in Prege, Zv:€i 

 Pfi. Documente, 161. A, letulhia, E. Meyer, he. (as to Bathurst sp. only). ^• 

 glalrata, mr, pihsa, Pax in Bull. Herb, Boiss. vi. 733. Ricinocarpus ylahratuSj 

 a lyenuinus}, forma pUosior, 0, Kuntze, Rev, Gen. PI. iii. ii. 291. 



Coast Region: George Div. ; woods near George, 900 ft., ScldeddeT, 2411, 

 partly! Uitenhage Div.; between the Kromme River and Uitenhage, Z^ylieTy 

 1517 a, partly! Addo, 1000-2000 ft., Burle ! Zeyher, 1517 b! Zwartkops River, 

 Prior ! Enon, Drege, 2332 ! Port Elizabeth Div. ; Krakkakamnia Forest Ecldon dy 

 Zeyher, 72, partly! Ecklon, 1124! Zeyher, 1517 a, partly 1 Alexandria Div. » 

 Bushman River, Thunherrjl Zeyher, 1517 c! Bathurst Div.; near the Kowie 

 River, EcMon d-Zeyhtr, 72, partly ! Kasuga, MacOwan, 715 ! Port Alfred. 300 ft., 

 Schlechter, 2692 ! Potts, 197 ! Fort Beaufort Div. ; near Fort Beaufort, 1000- 

 2000 ft., Eckhn d: Zeyher, 72, partly! King Williamstown Div. ; Perie Forest, 

 Kuntze, 6004 ! East London Div. ; East London, Rattray, 123 ! Komgha Div. ; 

 Kei Bridge, 560 ft., Rogers, 4506! Kei River near Komgha, 600 ft., Flanagan, 

 2318 ! British Catfraria ; without precise locality. Cooper, 228 ! Var. P : Bathurst 

 Div. ; Fish River near Trumpeter's Drift. Drege, a ! 4595 ! King Williamstown 

 fiv. ; Perie Foreat, Kuntze, 5466 1 Komgha Div. ; Kei Bridge, ISOO ft., Flanagan, 



