478 EUPHORBi^CE^ (Prain). [AcalypJia, 



partly 1 Var. B : Natal ; near Durban, Krauss, 377, partly ! Gueinziun, 404, partly ! 

 Sutherland^ Gerrard, 521! Wood, 901 Camperdown, Gtrrayd, 1166! near Glair- 

 mont, Schlechter, 3059, mainly ! Krantz Kloof, 1800 ft., Schkchter, 3188 ! Inaiida, 

 ISOO ft., Wood, 6401 Pietermaritzburg, Wilms, 2265! Riet Vlei, Fry in EerL 

 Galpin, 2722! Alexandra Distr., Dumisa, 2000 ft., Rudatis, 445! Highland 

 Station, 5300 ft., Kimtze, 5553 ! Nottingham, Buchanan, 143 ! Klip River, 3500- 

 4500 ft., Sutherland ! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 373 ! 



A well marked species the limits of which have, however, been somewhat 

 misunderstood. The variety here recognised though, with care, readil}' separable, 

 is, as Meisner pointed out when he originally described it, not really specifically 

 distinct from A , peduncularis, IVIiiller has endeavoured to distinguish between 

 the A. 'peduncalarls issued by E. Meyer and that described by Meisner ; there is, 

 however, no justification for this action ; while it is true that A, peduncidaris, 

 E. Meyer, proper is rare in Natal, and that its place in that colony is largely taken 

 by var. crassa, it so happens that the portion of Krauss, 377, on which in 1S45 

 McLsner based his description of A. pedunculanSy is not separable from the plant 

 issued by E. Meyer in 1843 under the same name. 



13. A. glandulifolia (Buching. ex Meisn. apud Krauss in Flora, 

 1845, 83); herbaceous; stems slender, decumbent, 3-15 in. long, 

 from a slender perennial woody rootstock, usually rather copiously 

 virgately branched, striate, sparingly to copiously patently setulose ; 

 leaves membranous, very shortly petioled, numerous, small, ovate- 

 lanceolate to lanceolate, acute, base rounded, margin distinctly 

 serrate, each tooth tipped by a stipitate capitate gland, ^-1^ i^- 

 long, \-\ in. wide, glabrous on both surfaces or sparingly setulose 

 on the midrib beneath; petiole glabrous, 1|- lin, long; stipules 

 minute, hyaline, membranous, caducous ; inflorescences 1-sexual, 

 dioecious ; male spikes axillary, solitary, peduncled ; peduncles 

 sparingly setulose, ^ (at length 2) in. long ; spikes cylindric, dense- 

 flowered, rather stout, ^-\ in. long ; bracts linear, ciliate, -^ in. long, 

 spreading, persistent ; buds glabrous ; female spikes terminal, 

 solitary, \ in. long ; bracts subsessile, large, foliaceous, ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, base rounded, ^-^ in. long, ^-^ in. wide, serrate 

 with dandular margin like the leaves and in addition beset with 



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sessile glands on the back ; sepals 3, ovate, subacute, with glandular 

 margin; ovary distinctly 3-lobed, closely glandular on the upper 

 half ; styles 3, united in their lower fourth, |-J in. long, very 

 sparingly and shortly laciniate upwards ; seeds subglobose. 

 Sond. in Liiinsea^ xxiii. 116 ; Walp, Ann, iii. 367 ; BailL Adansonia^ 

 iii. 157; Prain in Kew Balletin, 1913,'31. A. peduncularis^ var, 

 glandidifolia, Midi Arg, in Linnseay xxxiv. 28, and in DC, Prodr, 

 XV. ii. 846. 



Eastkrx Hegion : Xatal ; near Durban, Krauss I Gueinzius, 170! Gerrard, 

 520! Sutherlandl Wood 1416, partly! Attercliffe, 800 ft., Sanderson, 298! 

 Inanda, 1800 ft., Wood, 48, partly! 694! Indwedwe. Wood, 1054! Alexandra 

 Distr., DumiBa, 2000-2500 ft., Rudatls, 96 ! 743 ! 744 ! 



A very well-marked species within which Sonder proposed to recognise two 

 distinct forms, one with pilose nearly simple, the other with glabrous more 

 branching stems. The material now available shows, however, that while two 

 such foiTas may be distinguished, they i^ass into each other and cannot be treated 

 as definite varieties. 



