Pouzolzia.'] irrtTiCACE/E (Brown). 551 



filiform, terminal, not oblique, puLeruIous or papillose-pubescent, 

 deciduous. Achene included in the enlarged perianth and closely 

 invested by but not adnate to it, not oblique^ compressed ovoid, 

 with a sinning crustaceous pericarp. 



Perennial slirubs or herbs, not armed- with stinging hairs ; leaves alternate, 

 j petiolate, stipulate ; stipules free ; flowers in small dense axilluiy cUisters, 



unisexual, both sexes in the same cluster, but one gex preponderating, 



Dtsttub. Species about 60, in tropical and subtropical regions, mostly in the 

 Old A\ orld, with about a dozen in Tropical America. 



Leaves entire^ white beneath (1) hypoleuca. 



Leaves toothed, green on both sides (2) procridioides. 



1. P. liypoleuca (Wedd. in DC. Prodr, xvi. i. 227); a shrub, with 

 the young branches varying from very minutely puberuloua to 

 velvety-pubescent; leaves alternate, herbaceous; petioles 2-9 lin. 

 long ; blades §-34- in. long, |— 2^ in, broad, ovate or orbicular- 

 ovate, acute or shortly cuspidate-acuminate, cuneate to broadly 

 rounded at the 3-nerved base, entire, more or less pubescent and 

 green above, covered with a dense white felt beneath ; stipules 

 l|-3 lin, long, 1 lin. broad, tapering from the base to an acute 

 point, brown, deciduous ; flowers in small clusters in the axils of 

 the leaves, sessile, unisexual, both sexes present in the same axil, 

 but with a preponderance of one sex on different plants, greenish- 

 white, mingled with minute brown membranous bracts ; male 

 flowers somewhat flattened and abruptly pointed in bud, 4-5dobed 

 to balf-way down, more or less pubescent outside ; lobes |- lin. long, 

 ovate-acuminate, concave, valvate in bud ; stamens 4—5, with 

 flattened filaments longer than the perianth-segments ; ovary 

 rudimentary, compressed obovoid, semi transparent or watery ; 

 female flowers about -| lin. long, compressed-ovoid-acuminate or 

 somewhat flask-shaped, tubular, minutely 2-3-toothed at the apex, 

 pubescent outside ; stamens none ; ovary ovoid ; style much ex- 

 serted, l^-S lin. long, filiform, minutely puberulous; achene 

 enclosed in the enlarged perianth, 1 lin. long, ovoid, obscurely 

 veined, but otherwise smooth and shining, whitish. Burtt-Bavy in 

 Keiv BuUeiin, 1908, 174. 



Kalahari Rkgion : Transvaal; near Moord Drift, Schleckter, 4315! Knmati 

 Poort, SvhlerJiter, 11758 ! near Wonderlx)om, Burtt-Davy, 2*346! Nlss Leendertz, 

 451 ! Potgeiters Bust, Rtygevs, 2498 ! Warm Bath. Burtt-Davy, 21601 



Eastkrx Kegion : Natal ; Umhlatuzi Valley, Haygartli in Herb. Wood, 11853 ! 

 and without precise locality, Gerrard^ 11S8 ! 



This shrub is readily recogni.>ed by the snow-white under surface of \i^ leaves. 



2. P, procridioides (Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 412); a branching 

 shrub up to 4 ft. in height, or perhaps sometimes forming clumps of 

 simple subherbaceous stems ? branches pubescent or villous on the 

 younger parts; leaves alternate, herbaceous ; petioles :^-2| in. long; 



