492 EUPiioiiBiACE-E (Prain). \_AdenocH71e. 



long, glabrous; stipules free, lanceolate, foliaceous. l|-2 lin. long, 

 laciuiate near the base ; male flowers in axils of uppermost leaves, 

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

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

 12-20; ovary glabrous; capsule 2^ lin. wide, 3-dymous, smooth; 

 seeds ovoid -globose, nearly black. A, humilts, Tnrcz, in Bull. Soc. 



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DC. Prodr.xv. ii. 1140, as to Krauss, 1169 and Gucinzius, 172 onh/. 

 STerciiricdis hujjleuroideSy Meisn, in Hook, Lond. Journ. Hot, ii. 557, 

 as to Kraiiss, 1169 onhj ; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 84; BailL Adan- 

 som'a^ iii. 159, partly. Dijjlostylis bupleuroidcs, Sond. in Linnsea, 

 xxiii. 114. J). longifoUa, Sand, 3Iss, in Herb. Hari\ 



Vau. |3, Peglerae (Prain in Ami. Bot. sxvii. 408) ; leaves all orbicular or 

 obovate, obtuse. 



Coast Kegiox : Uitenhage Div. ; Elands River, Eclion <(• Zeijher, 39, partly 1 



Kloof, 2500 ft., 



Komgba Div. ; 



Eastern Kegion : Transkei ; 'Krielis Country, Bowkev, 286! Griqualand East; 

 Mount Cunie, 5300 ft., Tn^oUy 1798 1 1833! Poiidoland ; St. Johns lUver, 

 Driye, 5173! Natal; near Durban, Krauss, 1169; Gaeinzius, 172! above Pine- 

 town, 2200 ft., Wood, 5003 1 Clairmont, Wood, 10686! Inanda, 1800 ft., Wood, 

 253 1 Inchanga, 2000-3000 ft.. Wood, 7184! Tiigela, IIau!/artk in Herb. Wood, 

 10155 ! Ingonia, Gerrard, 11G8 ! Nottingham, Buchanan, 149 ! uear Krantz Kloof, 

 1500 ft., Srhlechter, 3179 1 Dumisa, 2000 ft., Kudatis, 634 ! Zululand ; Eutumeni, 

 2000 ft., Wood, 711 ! Var. jS : Transkei ; Keutani, l/iss Pegler, 871 1 



7. A. Mercurialis (Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Xat. Mosc. xvi. GO) ; 



■a dioecious scandent herb; stems 2-5 ft. long, sparingly branched 

 herbaceous, distinctly striate, jointed ; leaves opposite, long-petioled, 

 uiombraaous, ovate, acute or acuminate, base cuneate or truncate or 

 cordate, margin crenate-serrate, 1-3 in. long, |-2 in. wide, glabrous 

 on both surfaces with a few filiform glands at apex of petiole; 

 petiole 1-2 in. long, glabrous ; stipules minute, lacerate ; flowers in 

 terminal simple or branched racemes ; males several in the axils of 

 reduced leaves ; females solitary, leaf-opposed, their pedicels abruptly 

 defiexed; calyx-segments in both sexes usually 5; stamens 10-12; 

 ovary glabrous ; capsule H lin. long, 3-dymous, smooth : seeds ovoid- 

 .globose, brown. Tarcz. in Flora, 1844, 121, and in Bull. Soc. Inq^' 

 NaL Mosc. XXV. ii. 179. A. pauei flora, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Inip> Nat 

 Mosc. xvi. 60, as to Brhje, 3441 female, in Flora, 1844,^ 121, and 



in Bull Soc. Imp. Nat Wosc. xxv. ii. 179 ; BallL Find. Gen. 

 EupJiorb. 457, parthj. A. acuta, BailL Etud. Gen. Fupltoi'b. 457 ; 

 Mali. Arg. in 1)0.' Prodr. xv. ii. 1141; Pax in Engl & Prantl 

 Pfanzenfam, iii. v. 49, Jig. 30 A-D ; Prain in Ann. Bot. xxvii. 

 404. Mercurialis caffra, Krauss in Flora, 1845, 84; Baill Adayi- 

 sonia, iii. 160. M. caffra, a hrevipes, Meisn, in Book. Lond, Journ- 

 Bot. ii. 558. M. caffra, ^ longipes, Meisn. Ic. ; Krauss, Ic. M- 

 dregeana, Meisn. Ic. 559; Bucldng. ex Krauss, Ic. M. subcordata, 

 Bucling. ex Krauss, Ic, 3L pauciflora, Baill Adansonia, iii. 159, 



