Acalyplia.] EUPHOKBIACE.e (Prain). 479 



14. A. entumenica (Praia in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 22); herba- 

 ceous ; stems slender, prostrate, 1-H ft. long, from a perennial root- 

 stock, simple, densely leafy from the base, striate, strigose \\it\\ 

 white patent bulbous-based hairs ; leaves membranous, subsessile, 

 very numerous, small, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute, base 

 cuneate to rounded, margin distinctly serrate, each tooth tipped 

 either by a stipitate capitate gland or by a stiff bulbous-based hair, 

 |-1 in. long, -i^-^ in. wide, rather densely uniformly setulose on both 

 surfaces with bulbous-based hairs often intermixed with stipitate 

 glands ; petiole setulose, under 1 lin. long ; stipules minute, hyaline- 

 membranous, caducous ; inflorescences 1-sexual, dioecious ; male spikes 

 not seen; female spikes terminal, solitary, 1-1^ in. long; bracts 

 subsessile, large, foliaceous, Avide-ovate to suborbicular, acute, base 

 rounded, ^-^ in. long, -J-^ in. wide, serrate like the leaves, each 

 lobe with a stipitate apical gland and in addition setulose and rather 

 closely covered with stipitate glands on the back ; sepals 3, ovate, 

 subacute, glandular and strigose ; ovary distinctly 3-lobed, closely 

 glandular on the upper half ; styles 3, united below, upper portions 

 not seen ; seeds subglobose. 



. Eastern Region : Zululand;near Entumeni, 2000 ft., Wood, 3737! 



A distinct species, most nearly allied to A, f/landuUfoUa^ Buchiug^., but readily 

 distinguished by its strigose leaves and its different female bracts, 



15. A. depressinervia (K. Schum. in Just, Jahresber. xxvi. i. 348) ; 

 herbaceous; stems slender, erect, 6-15 in. long, from a slender 

 perennial woody root stock, simple or very sparingly virgately 

 brancbed, striate, copiously patently setulose with %vhite bulbous- 

 based hairs ; leaves firmly membranous, numerous, small, very 

 shortly petioled, narrow-lanceolate, acute, base rounded, margin 

 quite entire, ^-2 in. long, -^-1- in. wide, softly and rather copiously 

 patently setulose with white bulbous-based hairs, nerves obscure ; 

 petiole under J lin. long, setulose with bulbous-based hairs ; 

 stipules minute, pilose, caducous; inflorescences 1-sexual, dioecious; 

 dale spikes axillary, solitary, peduncled; peduncles copiously 

 patently setulose like the stems, 1-^-2 in. long; spikes narrow- 

 cylindric, dense-flowered, -g^l in. long ; bracts linear lanceolate, 

 setulose, -| in. long, spreading, persistent ; buds setulose at the apex ; 

 female spikes terminal, solitary, 1-I|- in. long; bracts 1-flowered, 

 subsessile, large, foliaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acute, base rounded, 



I 



-) toothed, setulose like the 



gressively ...^..c..v..j ^-r. y.^^^^.^^. j - j . 



leaves, with white bulbous-based hairs ; sepals 3, ovate, subacute, 

 pilose; ovary distinctly 3-lobed, setulose with long white bulbous- 

 based hairs in the upper two-thirds ; styles 3, shortly united below, 



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seeds subglobose. 



var. angustatay 



^-| in. long, sparingly shortly laciniate upwards ; s 

 -Pmm ill Kew Bulletin, 1913, 22. A. peduncularis, 

 Miilh Arg, in Linnsea, xxxiv. 28, and in DC Proa 

 ^^^U j)art, and as to Wahlberg's specimens only; not A. angustata, 



