St 



Adenodme.] EUPiiorjUACE^ (Prain). 489 



Coast Region: Bredasdorp Div. ; Eeit Fontein Poort, 100-200 ft., Bolus, 

 8603 ! Schlechter, 969^ 1 



A remarkably dlstiact gpecies. 



^ 2, A. ovalifolia (Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Kafc. Mosc. xvi. 60) ; a 



uicEcious herb with numerous slender procumbent laxly branching 

 sterns radiating from a vertical perennial woody basCj whicli is 

 ^7^ in. long, the herbaceous stems 1-1|- ft. long; leaves alternate, 

 distinctly petiolcd, membranous, below ovate, acute, base rounded, 

 gradually narrowing upwards to ovate-lanceolate with base cuneate, 

 margin closely sharply serrate, l-^ in. long, ^-}^- in. wide, glabrous 

 on both surfaces ; petiole -|-^ in, long below, -i in. long toAvards the 

 ^nds of the branches, glabrous j stipules foliaceous, often rather 

 large and ovate-lanceolate, ^-^ in. long, with margin serrate or 

 subentire, but usually lanceolate, ^-^ in. long, with margin deeply 

 incised ; male flowers in axils of reduced leaves towards ends of 

 branches, several to an axil ; female flowers solitary, leaf-opposed, 

 their pedicels abrujjtly reflexed ; calyx-segments in both sexes 5 ; 

 amens usually 10 ; ovary glabrous ; capsule l\ lin, wide, 

 3-dymous, smooth ; seeds ovoid-globose, pale greyish-green. Turcz, 

 in Flora, 1844, 121, and in BnJL Soc. Imp, Nat, Mosc. xxv. ii. 179 ; 



JPrain in Ann. Bot. xxvii. 406. A. humilis, BaiU. Etiul. Gen. Enplorh. 

 457 ; not of Turcz, A. paucijtorn, p ovalifolia, MalL Arg. in DC 

 Prodr. XV. ii. 1139, S hnplenroides, MiUL Arg. Ic, 1140, parthj and 

 •^s to Zeylier 1516 only, and e serrata, MiUL Arg. he. 1140. Trian- 

 ilieiua debilis, Spreng. ex Turcz, in BvlL Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xvi. 

 60, and T. duhium, Spreng. ex Turcz, I.e. xxv, ii. 179. Mercurialis 

 ^"^errata, Meisn, in Ifook, Land, Journ. Bot, ii. 557; Krauss in Flora, 

 1S45, 84. M, bupleuroides % Kunze in Linnafa, xx. 54, mainly, hut 

 eoccL M. Zeyleri, Kunzc; BailL Adansonia, iii. 159, jjartly ; not of 

 Meisn. Diplostylis serrata, Send, in Linnafa, xxiii. 114,j:>flr%{OK? as 

 to Zeylier^ 1516 and Ecldon & Zeyher, 39, partly. 



Var. 3, rotundifolia (Prain, I.e.); leaves below suborbiculur, subacute, base 

 rounded; above ovate, acute, base rounded, otherwise as in the type. A.j^vci- 

 ^ora, a rotundifoUa, Mull. Arg. iti DC. Prodr. xv. ii, 1139, 



SncTu AlltfCA: without locality, Mas^on] Ilarvaj, 626 ! and cuUivated 



Coast Region : Cape Div. ; Hout Bay, 0-150 ft., Kratfi^-^, 1190 ; Bolus, 7059 ! 

 <ind in Herb, Norm, Aiidr,-Afr. 1093! ScfiUcJiter, 95S\ WoUeff-Dod, 1652 1 

 -Siiuonritown, by Kcahs Ark Battery, WoUey-Bod, 2819, partly ! Sandhills on Cape 

 Flats. WoUn/-Bod, 1882! Wynberg Hill, Jlan-eyl Lion Mountain, Harvey \ 

 ^welJendam Div. ; without preci.-^e locality, Mund {Ecldon & Zeyher, 39, partly) 1 

 Riversdale Div. ; Xaffir Kuils lliver, Stach (Zci/her, 1516)! East London Div. ; 

 East London, Wood, 3137 1 Komgha Div.; near Kei Eiver Mouth, Flauuyan, 

 ^42! Var. j3: Cape Div.; Siiuonstown, by Xoahs Ark Battery, Wolhij-Dod, 



v: 



2819, mainly! 



3. A. humilis (Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xvi. 61) ; a 

 <1i<]ecions herb with many filiform ascendinij stems, rather virgately 

 branched^ springing from a slender perennial woody base which is 



