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, Acal)/2jJia.'] eupiiorbiacej; (Praiu). 483 



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Easterx Regiox : Transkei ; Kenium, 1200 it., Miss Per/Ier, 65, ptirt]y\ Pondo- 

 land; Fort Gro^svenor, Bachniann, 785! 789! 7941 Griqualand East; near 

 Kokitad, 3800 ft., T^^son, 1107, partly! Clydesdale, 2500 ft., Tyson, 3107 1 

 -N'atal ; various localities, Krauss, ^17 , mainly! Yerreauxl Gueinziusl Bellair, 

 220 ft., Schlechter, 3105! Wood, 296! 697 I 864! 4106! 6201! Sanderson, S44 I 

 Rudatis, 779! 780! 1201! Kuntze, 5182! Sutherland I Rehmann, 6891! 6995! 

 Zululand ; without locality, Gerrard, 1167! Var. ^ : Transkei; between the 

 -Gekua and Bashee Rivers, Drege, 53S0 ! Tembulaud ; Bazeia, 2()00 ft., Baur, 

 2691 Pondoland ; Fort Grosvenor, Bachmann, 788! Griqualand East; near 

 Kokstad, 4800 ft., Tyson, 1107, partly ! and in MacOivan d; Bolus, Jlerh. Austr,- 

 -Ap\ 1231! Natal; Maritzburi^, liehmann, 7616! Camperdowu, Rehmann, 7794 1 

 Bar-le Road, 3000-4000 ft., Wood, 12605 ! 



Also in Gazaland and Nyasaland. 



A very distinct species. The dwarf plant here treated as a variety (7 Rogersli) 

 of A, punctata, Meisn., may prove, when more fully known, a distinct species. 



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19, A. Wilmsii (Pax in Herb. Berul, ex Praiu in Kew Bulletin, 



1913, 24); almost shrubby ; stems firm, Avoodyj sp;iringly branched, 



1-2 ft. high, from a stout "woocly stock ; bark striate, pubescent to 



rather copiously patently setulose ; leaves membranous, numerous,' 



^ery shortly petioled, ovate or OA'ate-lanceolate, the lowest often 



•obtuse, the others usually acute, base rounded or shallow-cordate, 



margin shortly toothed, 2-3 in. long, li-2 in. wide, pubescent to 



strigose (especially on the nerves) on both surfaces and with 



usually numerous long stipitate glands on both surfaces on the finer 



veins and distinctly glandular-punctate between the reticulations; 



petiole setulose, 1 lin. long ; stipules setulose, lanceolate, persistent, 



1^ lin. long; inflorescence 1-sexual, dioecious; male spikes axillary, 



solitary, peduncled ; peduncles pubescent to densely setulose and 



glandular, 1-1 J- in. long; spikes cylindric^ dense-flowered, rather 



slender, 1-1^ in. long; bracts lanceolate, pubescent, ^ in. long, 



spreading, persistent; buds softly pubescent to setulose; female 



spikes terminal, solitary, sessile, 1 in. (ultimately 2| in.) long ; bracts 



1-flowered, subsessile, leafy, wide ovate-cordate, acute, margin 



toothed, 5-|- in, long, l~l:j in. wide, teeth short, triangulai*, 



pubescent or setulose and densely beset with long stipitate glands 



outside; sepals 3, acute, pubescent and glandular; ovary distinctly 



3-lobed, softly pubescent and glandular ; styles 3, united in their 



lower fourth, | in. long, markedly laciniate upwards ; seeds sub- 



jijlobose. Micinocarpiis pedunctdaris, var, gemnnus, 0, Kuntze, Bev. 



Gen, PL iii. ii. 292; not B, pednncularis, 0, Kuntze, I.e. ii. 618. 



J*, peduncular IS J var. Bndnia, 0. Kuntze, l.c, iii. ii. 292; 7iot 



Acahjpla Badida, Baler. 



Kalahari Region : Orange Kiver Colony ; Harrismith, Sanlcey, 238 ! Bethlehem, 

 Rirhavdsan] Transvaal; Spitzkop, Wilms, 1326! WitUip, Buiit- Bart/, 7260! 

 Crocodile River, Wilms, 1330! Paarde Plaats, Wilms, 1331! Ennelo, Tennant in 

 Iferb, Burit-Dary, 6807! Burtt-Davy, 9390! Miss Leendertz, 2997! Billys \lei, 

 Burtt-Bary, 9211, mainly ! Saddleback Mountain, near Barberton, 4500-4800 ft., 

 Oalpin, 1119! 1126! 



Eastertj Region : Pondoland ; Fort Grosvenor, Bachmann, 787 ! Griqualand 

 East ; Clydesdale, 2500 ft., Tyson, 2602 1 2603 ! Natal ; near Mooi River, 4000 

 it., Wood, 4103 ! Highland Station, 5300 ft., Kuntze, 5655 ! Yan Reenens Pass, 

 Kufitze, 139! 



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