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1-3 in. long, the herbaceous stems i-1 ft. long ; leaves alternate, 

 distinctly petioled, thinly membranous, below ovate or oblong or 

 suborbicular, acute rarely obtuse, base shallow-cordate, gradually 

 narrowed upwards to ovate-lanceolate with cuneate base, sometimes 

 the lower leaves cuneate, very rarely the upper leaves cordate at 

 the base, margin wide shallow-crenate rarely serrate, sometimes 

 quite entire, ^— i in. long, l-^- in. wide, glabrous on both surfaces ; 

 petiole }-l in. long below, 1-^ in. long above, glabrous; stipules 

 small, lanceolate, 1 lin. long or less, entire or faintly denticulate ^ 

 male flowers in axils of uppermost leaves, several to an axil ; female 

 flowers not seen ; male calyx-segments 5 ; stamens 6-8. Tiircz. m 

 Floray 1844, 121, and in BalL Soc, Imp. Nat. Mosc. xxv. ii. 179, 

 excL syn. Meisn. and Sond. ; Praia in Ann. BoL xxvii. 407. A. 

 fauciflora, Turcz. in Bull. Soc, Imp. Nai. Mosc. xvi. 60, as to the male' 

 pjJant with alternate leaves only, A. pauciflora, y Inimilis^ MiilL Arff. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. ii, 1140, excL syn, Kimze^ and 6 tenella^ MidL 

 Arr/. Ix. Mercnrialis tenella^ Mei^n, in Hook. Land, Journ, Bot, 

 ii. 556; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 84. M. triandra, Sond, in TAnnsea, 

 xxiii. 113, and BailL Adansonia^ iii, IGO, as to syn. Meisn. ; not of 

 E. Meyer. M. hupleuroides, BailL Adansonia, iii. 159, partly ; not of 

 Meisn, M. paucijlora^ BailL Lc. partly. Euphorhiacea, 3441, BreQ^y 

 Zwei PJl. Documenfe, 45, partly. 



Coast Region; Mosr^el Bay Div, ; banks of the Great Brak River, Burchell, 

 6157! Humansdorp Div. ; Zitzikamma, Krauss, 1911 ; Stockenstrom Div. ; 

 Kat Berg, Drefje, 3441, male plant only! 8223! Queenstown Div. ; Hangklip 

 Mountain, 6000 ft., Galpiif, 1782 ! 



Central Region: Graaf Reinet Div. ; Cave Mountains, 4400 ft., Bohts, 697, 

 partly I 4570 ! 



Nearly allied to A, oralifoliaj Turcz., but readily distinguished by the very 

 small stipules ; also nearly related to A. sermta, Turcz., but easily distinguished 

 by the petioled up[ er leaves, 



4. A. sessilifolia (Turcz, in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xvi. (jly 

 partly, and excl. Drege, 1867) ; a dioecious herb with numerous 

 rather wiry erect virgately branching stems 1-1 1 ft, high, appa- 

 rently springing from a woody base, internodes l|-2 in. long; leaves 

 alternate, below distinctly petioled, above sessile, firmly mem- 

 branous, the basal narrow-lanceolate, acute, base rounded, the upper 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, base relatively wide confluent with the 

 linear stipules, margin entire, involute, \-}^ in. long, 1 lin. or less 



wide, glabrous on both surfaces ; stipules laciniate at the ba?^e on 

 the side away from the leaf ; male flowers in axils of uppermost 

 leaves, several to an axil; female flowers leaf opposed, solitary, their 

 pedicels abruptly reflexed ; calyx-segments in both sexes 5 ; stamens 

 usually 10; ovary glabrous ; capsule 1^ lin, wide, 3-dymous, smooth ; 

 seeds ovoid-globose, greyish. Turcz. in Flora, 1844, I'll , partly, and 

 in Ball. Sac. Imp. NaL iHosc. xxv, ii, 180 ; Prain in Ann. BoL xxvii. 



408. A. sessiliflora, BailL Etud. Gen. Evphorh. 457, /. 9, ^</. G. A^ 

 paucijiora, tj sessilifolia, MiilL Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1140. A- 

 pauvijlora, Pax in EngL tC Prantl, Pjlanzenfam. iii. v. 49,///. 30 E : 



