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Adenodine.] EUPIIORBIACE.E (rrain). ' 491 



not of Tiircz, BiplosfyUs angustifoUa, Sand, in Llnnsea, xxiii. 113. 

 Mercurialis hujjlcuro'ides, Baill, Adansonia^ iii. 159, jmrtly ; not of 

 Meisn. 



Coast Region: Clanwilliam Div. ; Brakfontein, near the Olifaiits Itiver, 

 Ecklon it' Zeyher^ 40 ! near Wupperthal, 1900 ft., Bohis, 9090 ! jMahuesburv Div. ;. 

 between Maiure and Saldanha Bay, Drege, 1S68, mainly! Cape Div. ; Riet Valley, 

 Laudenbaeli, Ecklon d: Zeyhei\ 39^ partly! Uniomlale Div, ; Kamanassie Mountains, 

 near Avontuur, Bolus, 2460 ! 



5. A, serrata (Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xxv. ii. ISO, 



excl. syns.) ; a dia^cious herb with numerous filiform decumbent 

 stems rather virgately branched, springing from a perennial woody 

 base, the herbaceous stems 1|— 2 ft. long; leaves alternate, the lower 

 very shortly petioled, the upper subsessile or sessile, firmly mem- 

 branous, lanceolate, acute, base cuneate, margin sparingly and 

 sharply serrate, ^-1 in. long, 1 lin. or under wide, glabrous on both 

 surfaces; petiole h-^ bn. lung; stipules lanceolate, foliaceous, free, 

 l^-^ lin, long, their margin serrate; male flowers in axils of upper- 

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

 their pedicels abruptly reflexed ; calyx-segments in both sexes 

 usually 5; stamens 6-10; ovary glabrous; capsule IJ lin. wide; 

 3~dyjnous, smooth ; seeds ovoid-fjlobose, greenish-grey. A. sessili- 

 folfa, Turcz. in Bull, Soc. Imj). Not, Mosc. xvi, 61, partly and as to 

 Dreije, 1SG7 only. A, pnucijlorn, y hmmlis^ MiilL Arg. In DC. 

 Brodr. xv. ii. 1140, partly and as to syn. Mercurialis Zeyheri only;. 

 S hupleuroidesy Mnll. Arg. Ic, partly and as to DrcgCy 1867 onhjy 

 (ind ^ transiens, Miilk Arg. Lc. A. Zeylieri, Prain in Ann. Bat, 

 xxvii. 408, 3Iercurialis hupleuroidcB, Meisn, in Hook. Land, Journ. 

 Tiot. ii. 557, partly and as to Brege, 1867 only; Kiinze in Linnma, 

 XX. 54, partly and as to syn. Mercurialis Zeyheri only; Baill. 

 Adansonia, iii. 159, partly. M. Zeyheri, Kunze, I.e. Diplostylis 

 serrata, Sond. in Linn^a, xxiii. HI, mainly, hut excl. Zeyhcr, 1516, 

 and EclcL A Zeylt. 39, from Sioellendam. 



South Africa: without locality, Drege, 1867 a (Herb. Kew) ! 18GS, partly f 



«"'^ cultivated specimens ! 



Coast Region : Knysna Div. ; between Groene Valley and Zwart Vjilley, 

 ^urchell, 5678 I Human^clorp Div. ; Humansdorp, under 500 ft., Jiogers, 30S2 I 

 l-^itenhage Div. ; Sand Junes near Uitenliage, Laidley, 112! Ecklon d: Zeyher, S9, 

 partly 1 Port Elizabeth Div. ; at Walmer and Humerood, Mrs. Patemm, 1030 I 

 Albany Div., Graham^town, South ! Howisons Poort, 2000 ft., Gla^s, 1911 



Cfntual PlKGIon : GriuffRcinet Div. ; near GraafiTKeinet, 4000 ft.. Bolus, em, 

 partly I 



e. A. bupleuroides (Prain in Ann. Bot. xxvii. 407) ; a dia^cious 

 herb with numerous erect virgately branching stems rising from a 

 ^voody base: base horizontal, 2-3 in. long; herbaceous stems 

 ^-U ft. high; loaves alternate, firmly membranous, those^ nearest 

 the base short-petioled, orbicular or obovate, obtuse, i-1 in. long, 

 i in. wide, those above sessile, ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate or linear, 

 acute, 1-2 in. long, -J-J in. wide, base cuneate, margin sharply 

 •serrate, glabrous on both surfaces; petiole of lower leaves l-^ in. 



