Acalypha.] EUPHOKBiACEiE (Prain). 469 



1214: near Kei River, 2000 ft., ScJdcchter, 6250! Prospect Farm, 2100 ft 

 Flanagan^ 409 f , v xl., 



Kalahari Hegion : Orange River Colony ; between the Orange Kiver and the 

 taledon Eiver, Zei/Jierl Transvaal; Zoutspansberg Range, near Goldgedacht, 

 11AA. ' ^^^'^^^^'^^'^ 4602, partly! Blaauw Berg, Schlechter [ Shilovane, Jitnod 

 1100 : Crocodile River, Miss Leendertz, 716 1 Barberton, Thorncroft, 4323 » 

 Var. ^: Goldgedacht, Schlechter, 4602, partly! 



Eastern Region: Transkei ; Bashee River, Drerje, hi Kentanf, 1000 ft., Miss 

 ^€(/ler, 874 1 Pondoland ; Port St. John, Tsniika, Galjnn, 3484 ! between the 

 Umtata River and St. John's River, Drefje, 4655 I Natal ; near Durban, Gueinzim, 

 476 ! Gerrard, 82 ! 546 1 Drerje, c ! 4598 ! 4610 ! Wood, 1715 ! Scott Elliot, 1691 ! 

 Ethmann, 8976! 8977! Schlechter, 2931! Wilms, 2267! Clairmont, Enuhr, 

 2ol8ai 2524! Kuntze, 9695! Inanda, Wood, 404! 4301 Umgeni, Rchmann, 

 8802, i^artlyl Friedenau, 1750 ft., Mudatis, 1166! Var. ^: Transkei ; Bashee 

 River, Dregel Kentani, Miss Peglev, 606! 1198! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 1241! 

 Tugela, Gerrard, 1623 ! Culenso, Rdimann, 7164 1 



A very distinct speciea most nearly allied to A. frvticosa, Forsk. (^, betulina, 

 Retz.), but readily distinguished by having no glands on the leaves beneath. 

 Ihe variety latlfolia, recognised by Sonder,'Muller and Kuntze, is not a valid one, 

 but is baaed on specimens of twigs whose leaves have been produced in humid 

 areas or during wet seasons. The variety termed pilosior by Kuntze (1893) and 

 pilosa by Pax (1898) is perhaps not wholly natural, for specimens from Xatal 

 (Wood, 1241) as well as from the Transvaal (Schlechter, 4602) indicate that it too 

 passes insensibly into true A. ylahrata. 



3. A. glomerata (Hutclimson In Kew Bulletin, 1911, 229); 

 herbaceous, annual ; stems sparingly branched from the base, up to 

 IJ ft. high, somewhat sulcate, pubescent with short simple reflexed 

 hairs often mixed with larger gland-tipped spreading hairs ; leaves 

 niembranous, long-petioled, ovate- or rhomboid-elliptic, obtuse or 

 subacute, base cuneate, margin crenate, 1-2J in. long, J-l| in. 

 ^vide, setulose-pubescent on the nerves and veins on both surfaces; 

 petiole pubescent, |-2 in. long ; stipules subulate, -jV iii- long, pilose, 

 caducous ; inflorescence 2-sexual, axillary ; spikes usually several to 

 an axil, short, about | in. long, more or less aggregated in clusters 

 towards the ends of the branches, each with 4-10 fairly close-set 

 female flowers below, very few male flowers above and 1-3 densely 

 Kiuricate abortive feiuale flowers at the apex ; rhachis pubescent ; 

 male bracts very minute ; male buds almost glabrous ; female bracts 

 leafy^ suborbicular or nearly reniform, margin 8-10-toothed, about 

 i in. long, I in. wide, pubescent externally, nearly glabrous within, 

 but with several long gland-tipped hairs near the margins of the 

 teeth on the inner and sometimes also on the outer aspect ; sepals 

 3, ovate-lanceolate, acute, ciliate; ovary Slobed, setose-pubescent 

 and also beset with long gland-tipped hairs on the upper two-thirds; 

 styles 3, free almost from the base, very slender, rather short ; seeds 

 ovoid-ellipsoid, minutely pitted. Hidclmson in Bijer.FL Trap. Afr. 

 vi. i. 902; Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 15. A, jimhriata, BailL 

 Adamonia, i. 272, partly ; not ofSchnmach., nor o/Hochst. A. erenaia, 

 t'ar. glamluhsa, Mull Arg. in Linnsea, xxxiv. 43, and in DC. Pj^odr- 

 XV. ii, 871, Bicinocarpiis crenatus, 0, Kuntze, Bev. Gen. PL iii- ii- 

 291 ; not of 0. Kuntze he. ii. 617. 



Eastekn- Region : Delagoa Bay ; Louren^o Marques, Howard, 5676 ! 

 Also in Eastern Tropical Africa from Bongo southwards. 



