Ade^iocUne.] EUPHOliBlACEiE (Prain). 493 



jparthj, Biplostylis caffra, Sond, in Linnsea, xxiii. 115. Acahjpla 

 acuta, TJuinb. FL Cap. ed. ScJtulL 54G ; Sp'cng, ex Steud. NomencL ed. 

 2, i. 9. Eaphorhiacea^ 3441, Drerje in Zwei Pji. Documented 45, malnJy. 



South Africa: without locality, Tkunhcrgl Afasson I 



Coast Region: Stelleubosdi Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Zet/hcr, 3842, partly ? 

 Caledon Div. ; Oaks (Farm ?), Pinoo' ! Swellendam Div. ; Voormans Bosch, Zeyher^ 

 3842, partly! George Div. ; forest near George, Pno?' I Outeiiiqua mountain.s, 

 Eekmann, 259 ! Woodville, Galp'ia, 4575 ! Knysna Div. ; near Gouwkamma River, 

 J^rauss, 1192! Kuigte A'alJey, Drhje, 2301a! Groene Valley, Burchell 5025! 

 Humansdorp Div. ; near the Kromme Eiver, Drege, 2301 b ! Uitenhnge Div. ; near 

 Van Stadens Ttiver, Bre^e, 2301 c ! Port Elizabeth Div. ; Baakens Faver. Burchcllt 

 4339 ! Mrs. Paterson, 838 ! Cape Recief, Bckion, 611 ! £cklon d- Zeyher, 37 I Krak- 

 kakamma Yorefits, Zryher, 552 ! EMon, 828 1 Alexandria Div. ; Qlifants Hoek. 

 Ecldon (^ Zeyhev, 36 ! Bathurst Div. ; mouth of the Great Fish River, BarcJicU, 3735 ] 

 between Sunday River and Fish River, Thunhcrgl near Port Alfred, Sck'unhtnd, 

 788 I 1544 ! Schlechtei', 2732 ! Albany Div. ; near Grahanistown, Bolton I Bohf^, 

 2681 I Pcnther 914! Howisons Poort, Mrs. HutUml MacOinin, 318! Trappa 

 Valley, Mins An&tey^ 9 ! Atherstone, Rogers^ 3301 ! and without precise locality, 

 Bowker \ Williamson 1 MacOican, 222 1 Fort Beaufort Div. ; near Fort Beaufort^ 

 Ecklon & Zcghrr, 38 I Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, Drege, 3441, mainly! 

 '^I'awl near Philipton, 2000-3000 ft., Echlond: Zeyher ! East London Div.; East 

 London, Battrai/, 128 ! 158 ! 



Central Region : Somerset Div. ; Somerset East, Scott Elliot, 643 ! 



Kal\haiii Region : Transvaal ; Rimers Creek, near Earberton, Thorncroft, 

 250 ! 5592 ! Highland Creek, 3000 ft., GaJpin, 841 ! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5963 ! 

 Shilovane, Junod, 863 ! 



Eastern Region: Transkei; Kentani, 1500 it., Ilerh. Umtata Convent^ 495! 

 Tembuland ; Bazeia, 2500 ft., Baia\ 12S I Perie Forest, Schonland, 851 ! Pondo- 

 land ; woods near Fort Donald, 3500 ft., Tijson, 1782! and without precise 

 locality, Bachniami, 803! Griqualand East; near the River Chivenka, 4300 ft., 

 Bolus, 10285! Insizwa Mountains; Krook, 906! Natal; Notote, Gerrard, 32 f 

 Ingoma, Gerrard, 1175! woods near Byrne, 3000 ft., Wood, 1816! Zuurberg 

 Bush, Wood, 1987! near Van Reenen, 5200 ft., Schledder, 6958! Umlaas River, 

 Jvrauss, 156 ! and without precise locality, Gen^ard, 545 ! Cooper, 3151 ! 



8. A. procumbens (Beuth. ex Pax in Engl. & PrantI, Pflanzenfam. 

 iii-" V, 49); a nioncecious succulent herb; stems green, glabrous, 

 suberect or diffuse, 4-8 in. long; leaves below subopposite, above 

 alternate, long-petioled, very thinly membranous, ovate, acute, base 

 somewhat cordate, margin shortly, sharply and distantly serrate, 

 3-1 in, lone:, i-f in. wide, glabrous on both surfaces; petiole 



^1 J in. long, glalji'ous; stipules lanceolate, minute; male flowers 

 in sessile or short peduncled axillary glomerules; female flowers 

 bract^opposed, solitary, their pedicels abrnptJy reflexed ; calyx- 

 segments in both sexes linear-lanceolate, male calyx usually 5-, 

 sometimes 6-, rarely 7-partite ; female calyx regularly 5-partite ; 

 stamens 6-8; ovary glabrous ; capsule 1 lin, wide, 3-dyraous, smooth ; 

 seeds ovoid-globose, blackish. A, Mercurlalis, BailL Etud, Gen. 

 Enphorh. 457, j^^^^l'J i '^^^ ^f Tarcz. A. rioleefolia, Pram in Ann. 

 Pot, xxvii. 403. Avalypha ohtusatay Spreng. ex SteiuL Nomencl, ed. 2, 

 i- 10, partJij. Mercurialls annua, Drcge ex E, Meyer in Drege, Zwei 



^Jl 



31. triroccaj E. Meyer, Lr,, in inten- 



tion hut only partly as to spec, {name only); EcJd. tt Zeyh. ex Krauss 

 in Flora, 1845, 85 (name only); Sond. in Linn-^a, xxiii, 111,^ excL 

 ^yn. Thnnh. M. violsefolia, Kunze, Ind. Sent. Hart. Lips. 1846, icith 



