480 EUPHOBBIACE.E (Prain). [Acalyj^ha. 



Sond, A. ScMnzii, Pax in Ball Herb, Boiss. vi. 734, excl var, den- 

 timlata, A. Owcnise^ Harv. ex Prain in Ketv Bulletin, 1913, 22. 

 liicinocarpus dej)r€ssinerviiis, 0. Kmitze, Bev, Gen, PL iii. ii. 291. 



Kalahahi Regtok : Orange Elver Colony ; Besters Vlei near Witzies Hoek, 

 5500 ft., Flanagan, 1922 ! Harrismith, Sanlry, 2371 Basutoland ; without precise 

 locality, Cooper, 3577 1 Transvaal ; Macalisberg Eange, WaliTberg ! Billys Ylei, j 



Mitchell ! Hontbosch, Rehmann, 5914 ! Saddleback Moiuitain, near Barberton, 

 4500-5000 ft, Galfin, 638! 1120! near Barberton, Bolus, 9776, partly I between 

 Komati Biver Drift and Crocodile Biver, Bolm, 9776, partly ! 



Eastern Eegion: Natal; near Durban, Miss Oivenl Sanderson, 508! Woody 

 1416, partly! Inanda, Wood, 298! Tugela, Gerrard, 618! near Krantz Kloof, 

 1500 ft., Schlechter, 3186 1 Camperdown, Eehmann, 7793! Dalton, 3800 ft., 

 Rudatis, 15 ! between Greytowa and Newcastle, Rudatis, 2260 ! Mooi Eiver, 4000- 

 5500 ft., Xuntze, 5573 ! Wood, 3766! 



A very distinct species, in appearance most like A. angustata, Sond., with which 

 it has been confused, but readily distin^tiishable by its entire leaves, and by the 

 absence of glands from the bracts and the ovary. 



16. A. angustata (Sond. in Linnt>ia, xxiii. 115); herbaceous; 

 stems slender, firm, 1-2 ft. liigli, from a ;stout woody rootstock, 

 rather copiously virgately branched^ sulcate, sparingly patently 

 setulose Avith white bulbous-based hairs or at tinaes glabrous; 

 leaves firmly^ membranous, numerous, shortly petioled, linear or 

 lanceolate, acute, base cuneate, margin distantly acutely denticu- 

 late, 1-21 in^ long, 1-i in. wide, sparingly patently pilose or nearly 

 glabrous, nerves prominent beneath ; petiole 1 lin. long, setulose 

 or glabrous; stipules \h lin. long, firm, persistent; inflorescences 

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

 peduncles sparingly setulose or glabrous, 1—2 in. long ; spikes 

 narrow-cylindric, dense-flowered, -^-l in. i long ; bracts linear- 

 lanceolate, sparingly setulose, -|- in. long, spreading, persistent ; buds 

 glabrous; female spikes terminal, solitary, \-\h in. long; bracts 

 1-flowered, subsessile, large, foliaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, base 

 rounded, i-f in. long, ^| in. wide, their margins sharply and 

 strongly serrate, rather copiously glandular on the back ; sepals 3, 

 ovate, with glandular margin; ovary distinctly S-lobed, closely 

 glandular on the upper half ; styles 3, united in their lower fourth, 

 |—| in, long, shortly but copiously lacinulate upwards ; seeds sub- 

 globose. Wulp, Ann, iii. 367; Baill Adansonia, iii. 157; Prain in 

 Kew Ballcliti, 1913, 22, A. angusiata, var, glahruy Sond. Ix. 116. 

 A, jjeduncularisy var, angustata^ Midi, Arg. in Linnaea, xxxiv. 28, and 

 in JDG, Prodr, xv. 847, mainly, hut excl, Waldherg's plant, -4- 

 Scldnziiy var, denticulafa, Pax in Bull. Herh, Bolss, vi. 734. 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; various localities, Burke, 349! Zeylier, 151SI 

 Nehon, 231 ! Rtkmann, 42S4 1 Miss Lecndcrtz, 363. mainly ! 2582 I 4821 ! Jenkins, 

 6735! Schkckterl Wilms, 1322! 1327 1 Gilfillan^ in Ilerl. Galpin, 60711 61721 

 Marloth, 36691 Rogers, 2545! Bolabl Burtt-Davg, 747 1 769 1 3830 1 5602! 

 7165! 7192! 9150! Holder, 4548! Bester, 2164, partly! McLeal 



Eastkhn Hegion: iS'^atal ; near Durban, Gueinzius, 171! Gerrard, 519! near 

 Maritzburg, Wilms, 2262 ! Riet Vlei, Fry in Herb. Galpin, 2721 1 



