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476 EUPHORBIACE.E (Prain). \_Acalyplia, 



Gaeinzius, 8! 16S I Inanda, 1800 ft., Wood, 3148! near Isipingo, 150 ft., 

 iSehlechter, 2808 I 



A very distinct species, based h^ Baillon on a plant {Dreye, 4600) which had 

 been doubtfully referred by E. Meyer to A. cordata, Thunb., but is the same as 

 A, hmchiata, E. :Meyer, of which no description was published. Meyer recognised 

 two varieties within A. hrackiata ; a major {Drege, 4602) with taller stems and 

 almost glabroiis leaves and J3 minor {Dreye, 4601) with shoH stems and hirsute 

 leaves. The more ample material since communicated shows, however, that no 

 such subdivision is required. 



11. A, Zeyheri (Bail], Adansonia, iii. 156); shrubby; stems slen- 

 der, trailing, sparingly branched, 2-3 ft. long, bark pale, glabrous, 

 striate ; leaves firmly chartaceous or subcoriaceous, numei'ous, 

 very short-pe tided, triangular-ovate, acute, base truncate or sub- 

 cordate, margin distinctly serrate, 1-1^ in. long, §-J in. wide, quite 

 glabrous on both surfaces or sparingly setulose on the main-nerves 

 beneath; petiole glabrous or sparingly setulose, l-l^ ^^^^- ^^^S'? 

 stipules glabrous, herbaceous, persistent, 2 lin. long; inflorescences 

 1 -sexual, dioecious ; male spikes axillary, solitary, peduncled ; 

 peduncles glabrous, 1-1 1 in. long; spikes cylindric, dense-flowered, 

 1—1 J in. long; bracts lanceolate, sparingly pubescent, -| in. long, 

 spreading, persistent ; buds glabrous ; female spikes terminal, 

 solitary, i in. (ultimately 1 in.) long; bracts 1-flowered, subsessile, 

 leafy, \vide-ovate, subacute or obtuse, base wide-cuneate, J in, long, 

 § in. wide, coarsely serrate, the central tooth usually exceeding the 

 2-4 lateral, sparingly hispid on the nerves outside, eglandular ; 

 sepals 3, ovate, acute, glabrous ; ovary distinctly 3-lobed, nearly 

 glabrous ; styles 3, united in their lower fourth, f in. long, shortly 

 laciniate upwards ; seeds subglobose. Prain in Kew Bulletin^ 1913, 

 19. A. iieduncularis^ var, psilogyiie, MiilL Arg. in Linneea, xxxiv^ 

 28, and in DC, Prodr. xv. ii. 846, ^partly. A, Zt^yheri, var. glahrata, 

 MiilL Arg. Ic. 29, andlx, 847, excl sjjn, Sond. A. Sonderi, Gandog. 

 in Bull Soi\ Bot. Fr. Ix. 27. Ricinocarjms Zeylierij 0. Kuntze, Bev, 

 Gen. P/.ii. 618. 



Coast Regiox : Uitenhage Biv. ; Vau Stadens Berg, Zcyhcr, 345! 3S39 1 

 Burchell, 4726 I 3Irs. Paterson, SS6 ! 



Yery nearly related, a3 Bailloii has remarked, to A. pedtnicularis, E. Meyer, 

 but differing somewhat in habit as well as in foliage. Whether specifically dis- 

 tinguishable or not from A. pedunmlariSj A. Zeyhen eeems to be a form of 

 extremely restricted distribution. 



12. A. peduncularis (E. Meyer ex Meisn. apud Krauss in Flora, 

 1845, 82) ; herbaceous ; stems slender, rather sparingly branched, 

 prostrate, 6-18 in. long, from a stout perennial woody stock 4-8 in. 

 long or longer and ^-^ in. thick, with black rugose bark ; branches 

 patulous, striate, rather copiously patently setulose like the herba- 

 ceous stems ; leaves membranous, numerous, very shortly petioled, 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute or those lowest down 

 obtuse, base cuneate or rounded, margin distinctly serrate, 1^-2 J in- 

 long, |-1^ in. wide, those towards the tips of the stems and 

 branches smaller than the ones lower down, rather sparsely setulose, 

 especially on the nerves on both surfaces and on the margin; 



